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Hey, it's Sarah Gonzalez. The economy has been in the news a lot lately. It's kind of always in the news and Planet Money is always here to explain it. Each episode we tell a sometimes quirky, sometimes surprising, always interesting story that helps you better understand the economy. So when you hear something about cryptocurrency or where exactly your taxes go, yes, I was. Listen to the Planet Money podcast from NPR. Live fromRAH RAM Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Noura Rahm. A top Ukrainian official says the country's security service has hit more than 40 Russian bombers in four airfields across Russia with drones. NPR's Joanna Kikissis reports. JOANNA KIKISSIS Ukrainians are calling it Operation Trojan Trucks.

Ukraine's security service used trucks to smuggle first-person view drones deep into Russia then activated those drones to strike 41 heavy bomber jets. Writing on social media, Ruslan Stefanchuk, the chairman of Ukraine's parliament, called it quote, a brilliant operation with striking results. We now have long-range haulers who deliver anything anywhere in the world he said. Russia's defense ministry confirmed the attacks naming the air bases including one in Siberia which is thousands of miles away from Ukraine. Joanna Kikissis NPR News Cave. Meanwhile Russia launched hundreds of drones over Ukraine overnight.

Officials say most of the 472 drones were intercepted. The increased attacks come as another round of direct peace talks between Ukraine and Russia is scheduled to be held in Istanbul tomorrow. The Department of Homeland Security has released a list of local governments it says are not cooperating with immigration enforcement in preparation for cutting funds to them. VPM's Judd Kahlil reports Virginia Republicans are questioning that distinction. 33 local Virginia governments are on the list including in conservative places. Hanover County officials in central Virginia said they didn't know why they made the list

and federal partners didn't explain. Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin said he asked local governments to respond. I think we'll see a bunch of them to say no, we don't belong on this list and they will clarify that they are not sanctuary cities and I think the ones that don't do that, we should collectively really ask why not? One city, Martinsville, was listed as a county on the DHS list. The city's police department pointed that out in their statement. For NPR News, I'm Jad Khalil, in Richmond.

Congress returns tomorrow from its Memorial Day recess. The Senate is expected to take up a huge tax cut and spending bill passed by the House last month. It would spend more money on defense and less on Medicaid and other programs that benefit lower-income Americans. Wealthier Americans would benefit more from reduced taxes. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says the bill would add trillions of dollars to the national debt over 10 years. Russ Voet, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, disagrees. This bill doesn't increase the deficit or hurt the debt.

In fact, it lowers it by $1.4 trillion. What some of the watchdogs have done is they have used CBO's artificial baseline, which doesn't allow and assume that current tax law will be extended because of sunsets that are in the law. He was interviewed on CNN. This is NPR News. Police in Hickory, North Carolina are investigating a mass shooting during a party early this morning. They say one person was killed and 12 others were wounded, one critically. No

arrests have been made. Federal forecasters are giving a heads-up that a geomagnetic storm is expected to be severe that brings the chance of a spectacular northern lights display across much of the U.S. tonight. NPR's Amy Held reports. Amy Held Think of it as a nighttime salutation from the sun. Sent Friday, a powerful coronal mass ejection that's basically a chunk of the sun erupted, says the Space Weather Prediction Center, hurtling toward Earth. Charged particles colliding with our atmosphere can create an aurora, also known as the Northern Lights, shimmering sheets of purples, blues, and greens.

Tonight's could be visible as far south as Alabama, forecasters say, all the way to Northern California. On a five-point scale, they put this geomagnetic storm at four. That's severe, but less intense than last year's that lit up skies the world over and disrupted some power and communication systems. This time, forecasters say GPS and voltage control problems are possible. Amy Held, NPR News. The Atlantic hurricane season opens today. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecasts 13 to 19 named storms

this year, with 6 to 10 hurricanes. Director Mike Brennan is urging people get ready to prepare a disaster kit and listen to local emergency officials. He says most fatalities from hurricanes are due to inland flooding, sometimes far from the coast. I'm Nora Rahm, NPR News. World news is important, but it can feel far away. Not on the State of the World podcast. With journalists around the world, you'll hear firsthand the effects of US trade actions in Canada and China, and meet a Mexican street sweeper

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