Police warned residents to shut their windows in the densely populated areas of gyms. Earlier in the day demonstrators temporarily blockaded a major tunnel that runs under the harbor they surrounded a police station where they smashed cars with bricks and spray painted graffiti police have made a number of arrests the protesters are calling for a general strike across the southern Chinese city on Monday for n.p.r. News I m an Ameri Hong Kong Russian authorities are rounding up protesters calling for opposition candidates to be allowed to run for Moscow city council independent monitors 600 demonstrators have been taken into custody today a week after police arrested nearly 1400 this is n.p.r. . Defense secretary Mark s. Pursers he would like the u.s. To deploy ground based intermediate range missiles in Asia the same kind of missiles that were restricted under the Cold War era nuclear treaty with Russia which President Trump withdrew from yesterday as a person as the u.s. Must develop
Washington law firm advising a federal financial oversight board that s widely despised here at least he s now promising transparency I have. Tenure as governor hangs on a confirmation vote the Puerto Rican Senate is to hold next week he says he ll step aside should he lose that vote David Bowman n.p.r. News San Juan Puerto Rico Congressman Elijah Cummings is inviting President Trump to visit Baltimore after Trump slammed the city in tweets last weekend and again during a rally Thursday night coming spoke at a community event in his congressional district today time to Baltimore. Come to Baltimore and I promise you you will be welcome I promise you we will give you every bit of past the charity we ve got Trampas accused Cummings of corruption though provides no evidence and describes Baltimore as a rodent infested place where no human being would want to live Cummings is chairman of the House Oversight Committee which has been investigating the trumpet ministration this is n.p.r. . De
This is All Things Considered from n.p.r. News I m Mary Louise Kelly and I m Ari Shapiro there s growing pressure to overhaul how the u.s. Detains undocumented migrants the number of people held in immigration and customs enforcement attention centers last month top 54000 a record high private companies contractors run many of these facilities they ve been criticized for poor health and safety conditions and there are persistent questions about one contractor in particular it gets paid tens of millions of dollars a year to ensure that other contractors are doing their job N.P.R. s Yuki Noguchi has the story ice relies heavily on a small company called the Nakamoto group Nakamoto his job is to inspect the work of other contractors at more than 100 ice detention facilities but Nakamoto has become a lightning rod for criticism a government watchdog has repeatedly criticized it for failing to catch problems for many knockabout those failures help explain why unsanitary harsh conditions ac
Model as well as top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer American philanthropic family whose wealth derives in part from the drug Oxy consciousness had its name removed from a gallery at the Louve As N.P.R. s Neda Ulaby reports the iconic Paris museum is among the latest to distance itself from the Sackler family museums across the u.s. And Europe have benefited significantly from secular family money for example the Metropolitan Museum of Art to New York has a secular wing and there s a secular staircase at the Jewish Museum in Berlin representatives from the loop told n.p.r. In an email there museum has not received any money from the Teresa and Mortimer Sackler Foundation s since 19061907 that s when sponsored the renovation of a gallery that was known as the Sackler when that sponsorship ended 2 years ago but the museum did not explain why the name stayed up until the family connection to opioids stirred a controversy throughout the arts world earlier this year the Guggenheim Museum in
$1016.00 the Cape and Islands district attorney saying the charges of indecent assault and battery being dropped after Space s accuser than 18 year old employer evoked his 5th Amendment right against self incrimination refusing to testify about text messages as the defense claims were deleted the 59 year old spaces pleaded not guilty to the charges of times scientific integrity official the Environmental Protection Agency was barred from testifying before a House committee today N.P.R. s Rebecca Herschel reports the committee s concerning a lot of protect federal scientists a hearing before the House Science Committee was titled scientific integrity in federal agencies one of the topics discussed the importance of policies that allow federal scientists to discuss their work without political interference but when the committee asked the E.P.A. s scientific integrity official Francesca Grifo to attend the hearing the agency said no that frustrated Michigan Democrat Haley Stevens the ch