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in 10 minutes or less. Each weekday, listen to The Indicator from Planet Money Money wherever you get your podcasts. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Korova Coleman. President Trump has arrived in the Western Canadian province of Alberta for the G7 Summit. It's being held near Calgary. As NPR's Danielle Kurtz-Levin reports, Trump has one-on-one meetings planned with multiple leaders starting this hour with his Canadian host. Trump's one-on-ones begin today with a morning meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.

White House officials also confirmed that he will meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum. The White House has said Trump hopes to talk about topics including migration, drug smuggling, and trade at this week's summit. Trump has imposed tariffs on goods from all of his fellow G7 countries.

Trump's America First worldview has put him at odds with foreign leaders at past G7s. In his first term, they clashed over climate change and trade. But his team also took issue with G7 agendas, thinking covering non-economic topics like culture and climate change constituted overreach. Danielle Kertzleib in NPR News, Calgary. There are growing calls for Israel and Iran to de-escalate their conflict. There's been a fourth night of missile and drone launches. In an interview with ABC News over the weekend, President Trump said, quote, it's possible

we could get involved, but we are not at this moment involved, end quote. And Peres Hadil Al-Shalchi reports from Tel Aviv, the attacks are unprecedented for that Israeli region. Israelis can sometimes be nonchalant about missile fire. Hamas, Hezbollah, the Yemeni Houthis fire rockets at Israel. But this isn't the same at all. And the Israeli air defense system known as the Iron Dome hasn't been able to intercept all of them, as we can see, which is leading to a level of destruction

in central Israel, particularly, that hasn't been seen before, really. NPR's Hadil Al-Shelchi reporting. President Trump has ordered officials in his administration to expand their deportation campaigns in large, democratically-led cities. As NPR's Adrian Florido reports, writing online, Trump said they should do all in their power to achieve his mass deportation goals. ICE officers are herewith ordered, Trump wrote on Truth Social, to detain and deport illegal aliens in America's largest cities, such as Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York. The president went on to accuse Democratic leaders in those and other cities of using immigrants without legal status to expand their voter base and to cheat in elections. There's never been evidence of this, but the

president's post suggests that more than a week after ICE agents began aggressive raids in Los Angeles, setting off protests, other large cities could soon expect the same. Trump wrote, quote, I have directed my entire administration to put every resource possible behind this effort. Adrienne Flauivo, NPR News, Los Angeles. The New York Times is reporting the Department of Homeland Security will reportedly pause efforts to deport certain migrants. That may include migrants in agriculture and the hotel and restaurant industries.

You're listening to NPR News from Washington. Authorities in Minnesota have arrested the suspect, wanted in the shootings of two state lawmakers and their spouses over the weekend. The former speaker of the Minnesota House and her husband have been killed. Suspect Vance Belter was armed but surrendered to authorities in rural Minnesota yesterday. He had eluded them for two days. Indian authorities have started handing over the remains of plane crash victims to their families. More than 250 people were

killed last week when a Boeing aircraft bound for London crashed right after takeoff. NPR's Amkar Kandekar reports. The Associated Press reports that Indian authorities have identified the remains of more than two dozen people who died in the fiery air crash in the city of Ahmedabad. Doctors say they are trying to identify others using DNA. Only one passenger survived. Indian investigators say they recovered the aircraft's cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder.

The two make up what is commonly known as the black box. They help experts reconstruct the flight's final moments to understand the cause of the air crash. A senior official says a team of American aviation safety experts is at the crash site for its own probe since the aircraft was made in the US. Omkar Khandekar, NPR News, New Delhi. Catastrophic flooding in two states has left several people dead.

Five people have been killed in West Virginia this weekend and several people are still missing. In San Antonio, Texas, 13 people died in a storm last week. In both states, several inches of rain fell in just a few hours. This is NPR. Hi, it's Terri Gross, host of Fresh Air. in just a few hours. This is NPR.