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Lakshmi Singh
Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. President Trump is vowing that U.S. troops will not be deployed to Ukraine. But as NPR's Franco Ordonez reports, the White House confirms that U.S. air support is an option under consideration as Western leaders discuss security guarantees for Ukraine as part of a potential peace deal with Russia.
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Franco Ordonez
President Trump says US Troops would not be joining potentially European troops who may serve on the ground to help maintain any peace deal agreed to by Ukraine and Russia, but said on Fox News that the US could provide some kind.
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President Trump
Of air support when it comes to security. They're willing to put people on the ground. We're willing to help them with things, especially probably if you talk about by air, because there's nobody has the kind of stuff we have.
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Franco Ordonez
White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt confirmed that U.S. flown air support was an option. She says the president understands that security guarantees are crucial and has directed his national security team to coordinate with their European counterparts. Franco Ordonez, NPR News, the White House.
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Lakshmi Singh
The White House says that since the federal takeover of Washington, D.C. s law enforcement over a week ago, nearly half of arrests not related to illegal immigration have taken place in high crime areas. Press Secretary Caroline Levitt disclosed details that she says result from a White House analysis. But city officials point to local and federal data showing that the overall rate of violent crime has fallen nearly 30% of the city. Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott Hass said it is, quote, notable that other cities Trump has called out along with D.C. each has a black mayor and that most of those cities are seeing historic lows in violent crime. He says Trump's federalized approach in D.C. is wrong.
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Bill Chappell
He could be helping by eliminating things like glock switches and AR15, access to average Americans and ghost guns. That's what he could be doing.
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Lakshmi Singh
Speaking with NPR's Morning Edition, home Depot is seeing its sales grow once again after a big pullback from shoppers. The world's largest home improvement chain says people are taking on smaller projects. NPR'S Alina Selyuk reports.
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Alina Selyuk
In its latest earnings report, Home Depot says between early May and early August, its sales globally grew 1% and 1.4% in the U.S. that's tepid performance, but a marked improvement compared to the previous quarter and over this time last year. Executives have long said that shoppers have been delaying major projects, not canceling them, but deferring largely over worries about economic uncertainty. That's still true, but people are starting to do more smaller renovations that do not require financing. They're buying more appliances, gardening and building materials. Home Depot previously said it did not expect tariffs to cause higher prices broadly, but now clarifies that some items may indeed get pricier. Alina Sielu, NPR News.
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Lakshmi Singh
At last check before the close, the Nasdaq was down 314 points, or roughly 1.5%. NPR Hurricane Erin is expected to bring tropical storm conditions to North Carolina as early as tomorrow morning. NPR's Bill Chappell reports. Other coastal areas also face dangers.
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Bill Chappell
Hurricane Erin isn't expected to make landfall on the U.S. but the storm is bringing dangerous conditions to most of the east coast through Wednesday. Beaches from Florida to Maine face a moderate or high risk of riptides. Most of North Carolina's Outer Banks area is under a tropical storm warning and a storm surge warning. Here's National Hurricane Center Director Michael Brennan. This means there's the danger of life.
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Franco Ordonez
Threatening inundation of 2 to 4ft of.
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Bill Chappell
Inundation above ground level air and has weakened a bit. But forecasters say it's also growing, raising dangers for people far from its center. Bill Chappell, NPR News.
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Lakshmi Singh
Air Canada flights are expected to gradually resume operations this evening, according to a statement from the airline, confirming a tentative lab agreement with flight attendants. The union representing 10,000 flight attendants went on strike demanding higher pay, and tens of thousands of air travelers were affected. NASA says its scientists found another moon orbiting Uranus. Today, it announced that the Webb Space Telescope found a moon that's just six miles wide. It was first spotted by the telescope's near infrared camera in February. Uranus has 28 known moons named after various historic figures. Actually, this latest still nameless tiny moon makes 29. At the close, the Dow is up 10 points, the S&P was off 37, and the Nasdaq closed down 314 points. It's NPR News.
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