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On NPR's ThruLine, witnesses were ending up dead. How the hunt for gangster Al Capone launched the IRS to power. Find NPR's ThruLine wherever you get your podcasts. Live from NPR News, I'm Trial Snyder. In Northwest England, police say four children are among dozens of people injured after a minivan plowed into a crowd as thousands of soccer fans celebrated the Premier League Championship in Liverpool. A man in his 50s has been arrested as NPR's Fatima Al-Kassab reports.

Local police say it started out as a joyous day in the city of Liverpool, where hundreds of thousands of people lined the streets for Liverpool Football Club's victory parade. But as the parade came to an end, they received reports of a car hitting pedestrians in the city. More than two dozen people were taken to hospital with injuries. Police say they have arrested a 53-year-old British man who they believe to be the driver of the vehicle. They say they believe it to be an isolated incident and are not looking for anyone else. Fatima Al-Khassab, NPR News, London.

Authorities in Louisiana say three more of those 10 inmates who escaped from a New Orleans jail earlier this month have been recaptured. The Louisiana State Police confirmed the recaptures on social media media saying one was arrested in Baton Rouge and the other two in Walker County, Texas. That leaves two escaped inmates who remain unaccounted for. Following three consecutive nights of large-scale Russian missile and drone attacks on Ukraine, President Trump says Russian leader Vladimir Putin has

gone absolutely crazy. MPR's Charles Maines is in Moscow. I should note that today Trump threatened new sanctions against Moscow if it didn't stop these attacks, but that's a threat that he didn't back up when Putin said no to a ceasefire and promised more talks instead. So maybe the way to look at this is Russia's latest attempt of trying to not antagonize Trump, even praise him as Russia feigns progress towards a peace that just isn't there. The Kremlin responded to Trump's remarks, suggesting that he and others might be experiencing Trump even praise him as Russia feigns progress towards a peace that just isn't there. The Kremlin responded to Trump's remarks suggesting that he and others might be experiencing emotional overload.

Trump also had strong words for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Los Angeles has the highest number of homeless veterans in the country. It's also got a massive, nearly 400-acre Veterans Affairs campus in the middle of West LA. Advocates have fought in the courts and in the streets for decades to use that campus for veteran housing. President Trump signed an executive order that could change everything, as NPR's Quill Lawrence reports. A lawsuit back in 2011 forced the VA to start building housing on the campus, but it's

been slow. On May 9th, President Trump released an executive order that the West LA VA campus will be transformed to house and care for 6,000 homeless veterans by 2028. Iraq vet Rob Reynolds works with homeless vets in and outside the gates. I'm very thankful that President Trump took this position that with this executive order that this is a soldier's home and it was donated for that reason and that we need to get our Veterans off the street in the past VA officials opposed putting so many troubled veterans in one place But advocates in LA are taking Trump's executive order as a win quill Lawrence NPR news Los Angeles. This is NPR news

FBI deputy director damp on Gino says the agency is launching new investigations into some unsolved cases in Washington, D.C. Bongino says the FBI will look into the discovery of cocaine at the White House in 2023 during former President Joe Biden's term and the 2022 leak of the Supreme Court's draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, both popular talking points on the American right. Bongino also says the FBI is devoting more resources to the investigation of pipe bombs discovered at both the Democratic and Republican national committees in 2021.

Hell's Canyon on the border between Oregon and Idaho is the deepest river canyon in the United States, and as NPR's Nell Greenfield-BoyBoys reports scientists say they now know how old the canyon is. At its deepest point, Hell's Canyon goes down almost 8,000 feet. Matthew Morris is with the Utah Geological Survey. He wanted to know the age of this canyon and to find out he needed to analyze sand and gravel deposited by the river long ago as it was cutting through the rock. You're looking for pieces of evidence of where the river used to be. He and some colleagues went searching inside caves, lots of caves in the canyon walls.

And in a few of them, they found ancient river sediments. In the proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, they say it looks like this canyon got carved 2.1 million years ago. That makes Hell's Canyon surprisingly young, millions of years younger than Arizona's Grand Canyon. Nell Greenfield's voice, NPR News. This message comes from WISE, the app for doing things and other currencies. With WISE, you can send, spend, or receive money across borders, all at a fair exchange rate. No markups or hidden fees. Join millions of customers and visit WISE.com.

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