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Korva Coleman
Live from NPR News. In Washington, I'm Korva Coleman. NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte says the Western military alliance is assessing today's incident in Poland. Nearly 20 large Russian attack drones flew into Polish airspace. Polish and NATO warplanes shot down some of them. Poland has asked to invoke Article 4 of the NATO treaty, a meeting where the allies review a potential threat. NPR's Rob Schmitz has more on today's incursion.
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Rob Schmitz
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk says fighter jets from both NATO and Poland were scrambled to shoot down the Russian drones that had entered Polish airspace overnight. The operation marks the first time that a NATO country has directly engaged Russian assets in its airspace since month Moscow's full scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Tusk called the incursion a large scale provocation by Russia. On Tuesday, Poland said it would close its borders with Belarus due to what it called aggressive military exercises as well as a growing number of provocations from Russia and Belarus. In 2022, a stray Ukrainian missile struck a Polish village, killing two people. Rob Schmitz, NPR News.
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Korva Coleman
A top Russian diplomat in Poland says accusations that Russia launched drones into Poland is groundless. He says Polish authorities have provided no evidence the drones were even Russian. He also says Russia has no interest in escalating anything with Poland. South Korea has chartered a flight to bring back more than 300 South Korean workers detained at a battery plant in Georgia last week. NPR's Anthony Kuhn reports from Seoul.
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Anthony Kuhn
South Korea's Foreign Ministry says it aims to bring the workers home as quickly as possible, but adds that unspecified delays mean the chartered flight might not be able to immediately return to South Korea. One area of disagreement is that South Korea wants its workers to be able to leave voluntarily so that they can return to the United States at some point, while the Trump administration wants them to be deported, which could prevent them from coming back. South Korea's Foreign Minister Cho Hyun is expected to discuss the matter with Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Washington. Experts see a clash of priorities as the Trump administration tries to both attract high tech manufacturing and tighten border controls. Anthony Kuhn, NPR news, Seoul.
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Korva Coleman
The U.S. supreme Court will hear a challenge to President Trump's tariff policy. NPR's Elena Moore reports.
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Elena Moore
This case centers on a move Trump made back in April when he announced sweeping tariffs on countries around the world using the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. It marked a stark break from precedent, given that Congress, not the White House, traditionally controls the country's tariff moves. Two federal courts have since said the policy is illegal. Now, if the Supreme Court sides with Trump, the tariffs would be allowed to stay. But if the justices uphold the lower court rulings, the White House could be forced to refund the billions it's already collected from the tariffs. Elena Moore, NPR News.
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Korva Coleman
This is npr. Former Vice President Kamala Harris has released an excerpt of her new memoir in the news outlet the Atlantic. Harris book is titled 107 Days, and it focuses on her short presidential campaign last year. She recounts former President Joe Biden's decision on whether to run for re election. Harris says, quote, it was recklessness to let Biden make that decision on his own. Nearly one in five children younger than 13 say they're spending up to four hours every day on social media. NPR's Retu Chatterjee reports. That's according to a new study by the Digital Security Co. Aura.
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Retu Chatterjee
Researchers at Aura looked at data of phone use among 8 to 17 year olds who have the company's software on their phones. Prolonged use of social media by those 13 and under suggests kids either override age verification or use social media excessively with parental consent. They also found that many kids start their mornings by checking their phones repeatedly. Psychologist Scott Collins, chief medical officer of aura, says use of AI chatbots is common among teens.
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Scott Collins
The average message length is 10 or 12 times longer than the message length that they're just sending a text message to their parent or their friend or even on Snapchat.
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Retu Chatterjee
He says more than 36% of these conversations involve sexually explicit or romantic scenarios. Ritu Chatterjee, NPR News.
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Korva Coleman
A California wildfire has burned some giant sequoia trees in Sequoia National Park. The trees are among the largest in the world. The US Forest Service says, however, an endangered group of the trees has survived. This is npr.
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