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Grew and moved toward a goal of 2 percent of g.d.p. Within a decade in an e-mail to The Associated Press today Norwegian Defense Minister Frank Aki Jensen said that quote Norway stands by its decision of the NATO summit in 2014 and it s following up on this unquote White House press secretary Sara hook at the Sanders told reporters today that the president is frustrated with NATO allies defense spending the president. Has publicly shared his frustration that you d like to see other countries step up and do more particularly when they have the capability and they ve made the commitment to change course and he d like to see them fulfill that commitment the upcoming summit is the 1st major summit since the fractious group of 7 meeting in Canada last month and NATO officials are concerned that transatlantic divisions over trade tariffs and the u.s. Pullout from the global climate agreement and Iran nuclear deal that undermine Alliance unity other nations argue that the 2 percent pledge is
Hard to. Either reunite the family that they ve already traumatized President Trump 0 tolerance crackdown on immigrants and asylum seekers continues as parents of more than 2000 separated children say they still don t know where their kids are now says migrants should be deported without judgment to get response from model murder. And undocumented immigrant and mother with the group to head to Northwest Detention Center resistance she has a hearing in her own immigration case Tuesday and says the best way to stop the separation of children from their families at the border is to drop the charges against their parents then 50 years after the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr like thousands in a poor people s campaign thousands marched in Washington d.c. Saturday to culminate 6 weeks of actions and thousands of arrests in the new poor people s campaign. And we ll talk about how protests may change with the prize winning documentary filmmaker you change Recchi his new film The King takes El
Athletes taking stands for social justice his book The Heritage traces the tradition back to Jackie Robinson Mohammad Ali and others but there was a 40 year period when black athletes stopped speaking up you d follow the lead of o.j. Simpson he was not going to get involved in these issues and follow the lead of Tiger Woods he was not going to get involved in not only were they not going to get involved on social issues but they wouldn t even announce their their blackness and Kevin Whitehead reviews the new album by pianist Shawnee riced and that s coming up on fresh air. Person news laws from n.p.r. News in Washington on Chez Stevens search and rescue teams have been dispatched to a shopping center in northeastern Pennsylvania Luzerne County this following unconfirmed reports of were tornado the severe weather calls some injuries power outages and damage to storefronts and Wilkes Barre township the train Goldblatt who lives a short distance away says she went there to survey the dam