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One on one meetings with French President Emanuel macron on Tuesday and German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday hes also planning bilateral meetings with the prime ministers of Denmark and Italy Trump is expected to urge NATO members to continue to increase their defense spending and he plans to press for an increased focus on China as an emerging threat to NATO especially when it comes to 5 g. Networks as a cyber security risk Trump isnt currently slated to meet privately with British Pri...

Daniel shrine live reporting there weather forecasters warning that ice and snow this weekend could disrupt travel plans for people trying to get home for Thanksgiving meteorologist Steve glacier and whether nationss the storm moving east from California is expected to reach the northeast by tomorrow its pretty far reaching storm and it goes from the already almost the last with feet of snow and California that it moved up to and I think next into the plain and snow in the upper Midwest and tha...

Served as a model for how to provide benefits to independent workers N.P.R.s Yuki Noguchi reports Sylvias new law creates a system where good workers who work for many different clients or work part time can still earn paid time off eligible workers would accrue one hour of paid leave for every 40 hours they work just like full time employees do until now few gig or contract workers had mechanisms to allow them to accrue such benefits but as the ranks of those independent workers grow more citi...

Got a show for you thats right it can only be the Nobel Prizes this hour the annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony coming up after the break stay with us. Live from n.p.r. News in Washington Im Windsor Johnston a police cordon remains in place around a large section of London Bridge as authorities investigate a suspected terrorist attack today the b.b.c. Is reporting at least 2 people are dead and several others injured N.P.R.s Frank Langfitt reports this was the 2nd deadly knife attack on the bridge ...

To go after a Taliban attack killed a u.s. Soldier the 2 sides appear to be close to a breakthrough in September with a planned meeting at Camp David but talks fell apart after the attack Franco or down Yasser n.p.r. News Hong Kong has lifted a police cordon surrounding one of its largest universities N.P.R.s Emily thing reports this marks the end of a nearly 2 weeks standoff between police and protesters which forced officials to end the semester early police declared Hong Kong Polytechnic Uni...

Asked with top military leaders over the abrupt pullout from Syria and over the firing and the handling of the firing of a Navy Seal Trump intervened in a military justice procedure and not all of the military brass was happy about that during his trip Trump also said talks with the Taliban are again under way after he ended those talks 2 months ago security forces have killed at least $27.00 protesters in Iraq amid going anti-government demonstrations as N.P.R.s Jane Arraf reports the worst vi...

And to safety police fire 2 shots at the man on the ground who then crumples on the sidewalk witnesses said that amid the commotion pedestrians raced off the bridge which police have sealed off Britains Press Association says staff at the nearby monument tube station say 5 people have been injured in the attack if this proves to be a terror attack it will be the 2nd in the London Bridge area in less than 3 years Frank Langfitt n.p.r. News London and Hong Kong things are returning to normal at a...

Some of the candidates stand aprons to talk politics in peoples kitchens Ok thats going to run like 2025 minutes California Sen Comolli Harris ready to meal in Des Moines on the afternoon before the holiday Harris was asked what advice shed give families who talk politics around the Thanksgiving table what I would encourage families to do is to find. And really tough policy about the things that we have in common Harris says it is especially important because the current mood of the country has...

Including not defending it in a federal lawsuit that challenges the laws constitutionality Selena Simmons death an n.p.r. News the German parent company of Mercedes-Benz is planning worldwide job cuts over the next 3 years N.P.R.s Alina Cellier reports. Is the 2nd German car maker this week to announce major cutbacks in a statement that the auto industry is in the middle of quote the biggest transformation in its history German carmakers are pushing to catch up with investments into electric an...

Forging consensus when difficult decisions loom Donald Tusk has also used the post as a pulpit from which to rail against breaks it in roughly equal amounts of sorrow and anger he once said thered be a special place in hell for Briggs it is probably planned for breaks it and always seem to hope it might be reversed the former Belgian Prime Minister Sharon Michel is like to take a more sanguine approach like the French President Emanuel macro to whom hes close they want Briggs it done to ease di...