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At this time’s high tales
President Biden has given Ukraine the inexperienced mild to make use of long-range U.S. missiles for strikes inside Russia, a U.S. official informed NPR. The missiles, often known as the Military Tactical Missile System, or ATACMS, can journey about 190 miles. A U.S. official mentioned Biden’s choice comes as Russia just lately deployed round 10,000 North Korean troops in and across the Kursk area in a bid to push Ukrainian forces out of Russian territory.
On this picture offered by the U.S. Military, troopers, from the third Battalion, 321st Area Artillery Regiment of the 18th Area Artillery Brigade out of Fort Bragg N.C., conduct dwell fireplace testing at White Sands Missile Vary, N.M., on Dec. 14, 2021, of early variations of the Military Tactical Missile System.
John Hamilton/White Sands Missile Vary, by way of Related Press
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John Hamilton/White Sands Missile Vary, by way of Related Press
- 🎧 Biden’s concern has been a attainable Russian escalation, NPR’s Greg Myre tells Up First. However now his precedence is signaling that his administration needs to do what it may earlier than leaving workplace in January. There are actual limits to this new coverage. Russia is already pulling again warplanes and different key methods from missile vary. President-elect Trump has mentioned he needs negotiations to finish the battle and has expressed opposition to extra U.S. navy help. Ukrainians are involved they will face strain to make concessions, which may embody territory, to Russia.
Leaders of the world’s largest economies are gathering in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for the Group of 20 summit at the moment and tomorrow. It’s going to be President Biden’s final G20 summit and it presents some challenges. A few of the measures he’s anticipated to endorse aren’t supported by the incoming Trump administration.
- 🎧 Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the host of the summit, stays unfazed by Trump’s return to workplace. He’s advocating for progressive proposals, together with a tax on the world’s wealthiest people, based on NPR’s Carrie Kahn. Domestically, his leftist get together confronted vital losses within the current nationwide elections. He’s additionally coping with far-right leaders in South America, like former President Jair Bolsonaro and Argentina’s ultra-libertarian Javier Milei, who’re feeling emboldened by Trump’s return to energy.
- ➡️ Biden made a cease within the Amazon to pledge new U.S. funds for rainforest safety. He’s the first sitting U.S. president to go to the placement.
Almost 100,000 individuals are killed within the U.S. every year by fentanyl and different road medication. Though the variety of deaths has been lowering, it stays excessive. Throughout his marketing campaign, Trump centered on cracking down on fentanyl traffickers and sellers and securing the border to assist fight the problem.
- 🎧 Tom Homan, the person Trump named to function border czar, has promised navy motion towards Mexican drug cartels. Drug coverage and dependancy specialists who need a more durable response to fentanyl inform NPR’s Brian Mann that they are anxious Trump’s crew will go too far. Specialists say U.S. navy strikes would do little to gradual the drug smuggling or save lives however may shatter diplomatic relations and destabilize Mexico.
Image present
{A photograph} of German troopers on the entrance to the Richelieu-Drouot metro station in Paris.
Non-public assortment of Stéphanie Colaux and Stéphane Jaegle
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Non-public assortment of Stéphanie Colaux and Stéphane Jaegle
Through the summer time of 2020, the seek for an unknown photographer started after an previous picture album was discovered at a flea market in southern France. Inside it had been 377 novice black-and-white images taken between 1940 and 1942. They included scenes of civilians and German troopers all over the place, going concerning the enterprise of the Occupation of France close to recognizable landmarks. Julien Blanc, a Nazi Occupation and French Resistance historian, says the images present the actual metropolis and differ from the propaganda pictures taken by Nazi-authorized photographers.
Searching for widespread floor
The North Fork Neighborhood Choir practices on the North Fork Baptist Church in Paonia, Colo., on Nov. 6 — the day after Election Day.
Luna Anna Archey for NPR
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Luna Anna Archey for NPR
Over the previous couple of years and thru this yr’s contentious marketing campaign season, there was a coarsening in the way in which individuals discuss to one another. Reporters throughout the NPR Community are in search of examples of individuals working by means of their variations. These tales discover how some individuals are attempting to bridge divides.
The members of the North Fork Neighborhood Choir in Paonia, Colo., ranging in age from 11 to 87, have various opinions on massive subjects. Some imagine in God whereas others do not. Some personal weapons and a few don’t. And a few members lean far-right whereas others lean far-left. However they set their variations apart after they sing. When variations come up, they work out inventive options to remain in concord. All 20 or so singers spoke with NPR to precise how music-making is a uniting power that helps launch conversations.
3 issues to know earlier than you go
Federal well being officers say the present E. coli outbreak is linked to natural entire bagged carrots and child carrots offered by Grimmway Farms.
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- One individual has died and a minimum of 38 others have grow to be sick from an E. coli outbreak linked to natural carrots, based on the CDC. The recalled carrots had been offered at retailers reminiscent of Walmart, Goal, Entire Meals and Dealer Joe’s.
- In 2015, Emma Carlson Berne was at a restaurant and feeling overwhelmed together with her three younger youngsters, one among whom was three months previous. Then a stranger, her unsung hero, came visiting with considerate phrases that also affect her almost 10 years later.
- Bela Karolyi, a famend coach who skilled notable gymnasts reminiscent of Mary Lou Retton, Kerri Strug and Julianne McNamara, died Friday at 82 years previous.
This text was edited by Suzanne Nuyen.
