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--:-- Giles Snyder: Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Giles Snyder.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Ukrainian officials say Russia launched hundreds of drones and missiles overnight. At least four people were killed, including a child, and dozens more were injured.
--:-- Giles Snyder: NPR's Joanna Kakisys reports from Kiev that the Ukrainian capital and a city in the southeast were hit the hardest.
--:-- Joanna Kakisys: Kiev's rescue workers posted this video of their teams putting out fires and pulling the wounded from the ruins of a five-story apartment building.
--:-- Joanna Kakisys: Firefighters and medics worked throughout the attacks, which lasted for 12 hours.
--:-- Joanna Kakisys: Among those killed in Kiev was a 12-year-old girl.
--:-- Joanna Kakisys: Dozens in the southeastern city of Zaporizhia were also injured.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky posted on social media that Russia launched almost 500 drones and more than 40 missiles at his country overnight and early this morning.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Zelensky warned UN leaders last week that Russia's war on Ukraine has prompted a dangerous arms race and that every year weapons get deadlier.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Joanna Kekesis, NPR News.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Cave With the ongoing war in Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov spoke this weekend at the U.N. General Assembly in New York, saying Moscow does not intend to attack Europe, but he warned that any aggression against Russia would face a decisive response.
--:-- Giles Snyder: A spate of airspace incursions linked to Russia has led to security concerns.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Top officials in Oregon pushing back against President Trump's announcement that he will send troops to Portland.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Oregon Governor Tina Kotick is calling any deployment an abuse of power.
--:-- Tina Kotick: There is no insurrection. There is no threat to national security. And there is no need for military troops in our major city.
--:-- Giles Snyder: On social media this weekend, Trump called Portland war-ravaged and said troops were necessary to protect immigration facilities, which have been the focus of protesters.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Saturday's announcement is Trump's latest threat to deploy troops to a Democratic-led city.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Hundreds of people marched in downtown Chicago Saturday, demanding that Illinois officials stand up against the Trump administration's immigration agenda.
--:-- Giles Snyder: From member station WBEZ, Summer Van Benton reports.
--:-- Summer Van Benton: No Trump! No Trumps!
--:-- Summer Van Benton: Protesters ranged from babies in strollers to elders in wheelchairs. Cars honked in support. Some walking by even joined the march.
--:-- Summer Van Benton: Organizer Hussam Maraja with the U Palestinian Community Network and a co for the Chicago Coalition Against the Trump Agenda says the Trump administration is targeting blue cities who are making progressive change.
--:-- Hussam Maraja: The precedent that he's setting is that you're going to make progress and you're going to have these progressive mayors and progressive cities that come from unions and working-class people, then we're going to punish you.
--:-- Summer Van Benton: Protesters are demanding officials enact laws and policies to stop federal agencies from harming residents.
--:-- Giles Snyder: For NPR News, I'm Summer Van Benton in Chicago.
--:-- Giles Snyder: And from Washington, you're listening to NPR News.
--:-- Giles Snyder: A mass shooting last night in Southport, North Carolina.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Shots were fired from a boat on the Cape Fear River into a waterfront bar.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Southport Police Chief Todd Koren spoke to reporters early this morning.
--:-- Todd Koren: We do have three deceased at the establishment that we are dealing with right now working the crime scene.
--:-- Todd Koren: In addition to three fatalities, at least eight others were wounded.
--:-- Giles Snyder: A suspect is in custody.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Authorities say a Coast Guard crew detained the person who matched the suspect description about a half hour after the shooting.
--:-- Giles Snyder: The suspect has not yet been identified and it's not clear what led to the attack.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Officials say the suspect is being questioned by police.
--:-- Giles Snyder: The medication Mifepristone was approved on this day in 2000.
--:-- Giles Snyder: NPR's Selena Simmons-Duffin reports.
--:-- Selena Simmons-Duffin: The food and drug review process was longer and more thorough than usual because of political opposition.
--:-- Selena Simmons-Duffin: Mifepristone works by blocking progesterone, a hormone that's necessary for a pregnancy to continue.
--:-- Selena Simmons-Duffin: In medication abortion and miscarriage management, the pill is used in combination with another medication, mesoprostol, which causes uterine cramping.
--:-- Selena Simmons-Duffin: Mifepristone was approved and in use in Europe for years before it became available in the U.S.
--:-- Selena Simmons-Duffin: There are continued legal efforts to curb access, and the Trump administration may try to do so through regulation.
--:-- Selena Simmons-Duffin: But reproductive rights advocates point out the safety and efficacy of the medication has been proven in more than 100 studies.
--:-- Selena Simmons-Duffin: According to the FDA, over the decades that it's been available, it's been used by nearly 6 million women.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Selena Simmons-Duffin, NPR News.
--:-- Giles Snyder: And I'm Giles Snyder.
--:-- Giles Snyder: This is NPR News.
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