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This message comes from Subaru. The new Forester Hybrid uses advanced Subaru Hybrid electric technology, giving you a total range of up to 581 miles per tank. The new Subaru Forester Hybrid. Love goes the extra mile. Discover more at Subaru.com slash Forester Hybrid. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janene Hurst. Around 50 people were injured when a British man's minivan plowed into a crowd of people celebrating Liverpool's soccer club win today. Police say 27 were taken to the hospital and more than 20 others were treated on the spot. Four children are among the injured. Jenny Sims, Assistant Chief Constable, says one person is in custody. The car stopped at the scene and a 53-year-old white British man from the Liverpool area

was arrested. We believe him to be the driver of the vehicle. Extensive inquiries are ongoing to establish the circumstances leading up to the collision. There's no word on a motive, but police say they don't believe this is terrorism. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer thanked police for their quick response and said that his thoughts are with those injured or affected. Tens of thousands of Liverpool fans had come out amid wet weather to celebrate the team. Los Angeles has the highest number of homeless vets 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 housing for needy veterans. 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 L.A. 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. King Charles and Queen Camilla are in Canada for a two-day royal visit. Emma Jacobs reports the visit is seen as a show of support for Canada's sovereignty.

King Charles is Canada's ceremonial head of state, and this is his first visit to Canada since his coronation in 2023. The King and Queen Camilla arrived in the capital city of Ottawa and were greeted on the tarmac by Prime Minister Mark Carney, who extended the invitation for this visit. The royal couple participated in a series of public events around Ottawa. On Tuesday, the King will preside over the opening of Canada's latest session of Parliament,

a symbolic gesture that is seen as lending support to Canada and its current political order amid talk of possible annexation by President Trump. For NPR News, I'm Emma Jacobs in Montreal. U.S. futures contracts are trading higher at this hour. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. In France, angry farmers have joined disgruntled striking taxi drivers united over two separate issues. The farmers are protesting an agricultural bill that deals with regulations around water

and pesticide use, and taxi drivers are protesting changes to the fare structure for medical transport. A taxi strike last week blocked hundreds of miles of roads around Paris. Hell's Canyon, which is on the border between Oregon and Idaho, is the deepest river canyon in the United States. And as NPR's Nell Greenfield-Boys reports, scientists say they now know how old this 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 Howells Canyon surprisingly young, millions of years younger than Arizona's Grand Canyon. Nell Greenfield, Boyce, NPR News. Wall Street was closed today in observance of Memorial Day. Use futures contracts or trading higher. I'm Janene Herbst, NPR News in Washington. This message comes from WISE, the app for doing things and other currencies. With WISE, you can send,

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