3 Trump officials with ties to antisemitic extremists. And, Syria sanctions may lift

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NPR has identified 3 officials from the Trump medication who person adjacent connections to antisemitic extremists. This includes an idiosyncratic labeled by national prosecutors arsenic a "Nazi sympathizer" and a salient Holocaust denier. This revelation follows the Trump administration's usage of the combat against antisemitism arsenic a justification for deporting pro-Palestinian pupil protesters and implementing backing cuts to universities. Read the breakdowns connected each official and their ties to antisemitic individuals.

Nick Fuentes, seen present successful 2020, is wide known for his achromatic nationalist and antisemitic views, including Holocaust denial. An authoritative successful the Trump medication advocated for the societal media level X to region its prohibition connected Fuentes implicit hatred code and was besides spotted successful the assemblage astatine a 2024 Fuentes rally. Zach D. Roberts/NurPhoto via Getty Images hide caption

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President Trump met with Syria's caller leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, today successful Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Just months ago, Sharaa was connected the U.S. database of designated terrorists, with a $10 cardinal bounty placed connected him. This gathering follows Trump's announcement that helium plans to lift decades of U.S. sanctions connected Syria. The country's system has been struggling since its civilian warfare and the ousting of the Assad regime.

• 🎧 NPR's Aya Batrawy tells Up First that Trump and Sharaa's gathering could alteration the region, not conscionable Syria. Syria is simply a pillar of the Middle East, but for implicit a decade, it has been crumbling and impoverished by its war, destabilizing parts of the region. The caller Syria says it is acceptable to physique a narration with the U.S. The imaginable lifting of sanctions could assistance Arab states successful preventing Iran from establishing a beingness successful Syria, portion besides aligning with U.S. interests successful preventing Russia from gathering bases there. However, lifting sanctions is simply a analyzable process that would impact going done Congress.

Representatives from Russia and Ukraine volition stitchery successful Turkey for negotiations tomorrow, entering a caller signifier successful an effort to halt oregon extremity the war. It's the 2 countries' archetypal nonstop talks since the aboriginal months of the Kremlin's full-scale penetration successful 2022. Trump has suggested helium might halt by.

• 🎧 Moscow and Kyiv are trying to show to Trump that they are the much superior enactment seeking peace, NPR's Charles Maynes says. Russian President Vladimir Putin called for nonstop talks arsenic a counteroffer aft Europe and the U.S. threatened caller sanctions connected Russia if helium didn't perpetrate to an contiguous 30-day ceasefire. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is expected to be the negotiations and has challenged Putin to amusement up. Zelenskyy says helium doesn't judge Putin really wants a ceasefire and the gathering is simply a stalling tactic. Maynes says if Trump, Putin and Zelenskyy bash each conscionable unneurotic for the talks, "anything could happen."

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. volition beryllium connected Capitol Hill contiguous to testify for the archetypal clip since stepping into the relation of caput of Health and Human Services. Since taking the position, Kennedy has fired thousands of unit members, canceled billions of dollars successful grants to universities and nationalist wellness departments, and purged technological leaders. He volition attest earlier the House and the Senate to explicate wherefore helium wants less wealth for his department successful the coming year.

• 🎧 DOGE's efforts to shrink the authorities are connected to the cuts Kennedy wants to make, NPR's Selena Simmons-Duffin says. But Kennedy is besides attempting to fundamentally alteration the ngo of HHS and instill his priorities. He states that chronic diseases are an epidemic and has linked the size of the HHS unit and fund with the worsening wellness of the American population. Simmons-Duffin says she volition beryllium paying attraction to the overhaul of departments during today's hearings. The overhaul was billed arsenic being astir administrative redundancies. However, galore halfway functions of the agency, including those required by Congress, are present successful limbo. Other topics that could travel up during Kennedy's grounds see the measles outbreak successful West Texas, his attack to autism and the cuts to biomedical research.

Today's listen

Jesús Ortiz Paz and the members of Fuerza Regida execute onstage connected Aug. 28, 2024, successful Los Angeles, California. Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for SiriusXM/Getty Images North America hide caption

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For the archetypal clip successful the 69-year past of the all-genre Billboard 200 albums chart, Spanish-language albums are Nos. 1 and 2 simultaneously. Bad Bunny took the crown for the apical position. In a amazingly beardown debut close down him is the Mexican American set Fuerza Regida with their ninth album. After 8 years of making music, the group's caller album, 111XPANTIA, marks a instrumentality to their accepted benignant aft a little displacement to a much physics dependable connected their erstwhile album. What sets the radical isolated is the magnetism of their melodies and however they creation with a pop-like groove. Listen to snippets of songs from the album, showcasing what makes them truthful special.

Living Better

When we devour carbohydrates similar achromatic atom and pasta we digest them rapidly, causing surges successful humor sugar. But determination is simply a mode to dilatory digestion down. Jacobo Zanella/Moment Open/Getty Images hide caption

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Living Better is simply a special series astir what it takes to enactment steadfast successful America.

Dietitians often urge full atom oregon brownish atom and pasta implicit their counterparts, achromatic atom and pasta, due to the fact that they are much nutritious. But successful the past decade, nutrient scientists person figured retired a mode radical tin digest carbohydrates much slowly. During that process, they uncovered a surprise: a ace nutrient hidden wrong achromatic pasta and achromatic atom called resistant starch. Studies person shown that eating much resistant starch tin amended gut health, little inflammation successful the assemblage and heighten insulin sensitivity. Here's however you tin create the supernutrient successful your ain kitchen:

• 🍚 After you navigator achromatic rice, the kernels incorporate chains of sweetener molecules known arsenic digestible starch. If you enactment blistery atom successful the fridge for astatine slightest 6-8 hours, the sweetener chains instrumentality together, making them nary longer digestible.
• 🍚 Studies person shown that eating cold, leftover atom doesn't typically rise humor sweetener arsenic accelerated and precocious arsenic eating hot, caller rice.
• 🍚 The aforesaid instrumentality works for immoderate nutrient that contains digestible starch, including achromatic pasta and potatoes. Pasta and murphy crockery won't spike your humor sweetener arsenic accelerated arsenic a sizzling spaghetti.
• 🍚 You don't person to devour the grains cold; you tin reheat gently. Do truthful rapidly successful the microwave oregon by lightly frying it.

3 things to cognize earlier you go

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Ana Inciardi

1. Step aside, bubble gum machines, a caller vending instrumentality is successful town. Ana Inciardi is dispensing astonishment mini creation prints successful astatine slightest 50 locations crossed the U.S.
2. All Things Considered's caller series, Here to Help, is shining a airy connected radical who take to unpaid their time. If you volunteer, they privation to hear your communicative about however the enactment has made a quality successful your life.
3. A trove of forgotten, concealed Nazi documents seized during World War II was precocious found successful the basement of Argentina's Supreme Court.

This newsletter was edited by Suzanne Nuyen.