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This is Ira Glass with This American Life, each week on our show. We choose a theme, tell different stories on that theme. All right, I'm just going to stop right there. You're listening to an NPR podcast, chances are you know our show. So instead, I'm going to tell you, we've just been on a run of really good shows lately. Some big epic emotional stories, some weird funny stuff too. Download us, This stuff too. Down with us, this American life. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Shea Stevens. President Trump is cutting short his visit to the G7 summit in Canada, citing the conflict in the Middle East.

Trump has been the center of attention at the annual gathering of the world's wealthiest economies. NPR's Danielle Kurtz-Levin has more. White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt posted on social media that Trump would leave the summit wealthiest economies. NPR's Danielle Kirchleben has more. Danielle Kirchleben, NPR Newsweek, NPR Newsweek, NPR Newsweek, NPR Newsweek, NPR Newsweek, NPR Newsweek, NPR Newsweek, NPR Newsweek, NPR Newsweek, NPR Newsweek, NPR Newsweek, NPR Newsweek, NPR Newsweek, NPR Newsweek, NPR Newsweek, NPR Newsweek, NPR Newsweek, NPR Newsweek, NPR Newsweek, NPR Newsweek, NPR Newsweek, NPR Newsweek, NPR Newsweek, NPR Newsweek, NPR Newsweek, NPR Newsweek, NPR Newsweek, NPR Newsweek, NPR Newsweek, NPR Newsweek, NPR Newsweek, NPR Newsweek, NPR Newsweek, NPR Newsweek, NPR Newsweek,

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and Mexican President Claudia Schoenbaum. Danielle Kurtzleben, NPR News, Calgary. Danielle Kurtzleib in NPR News, Calgary. The Trump administration is defending its possible travel ban expansion to include up to 36 additional countries. As NPR's Tovia Smith reports, that's on top of the 19 nations already targeted for banned or restricted travel. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sent a memo to the 36 countries that he says have problems, ranging from involvement with terrorism to too many citizens who overstay visas.

Some leniency may be granted to nations willing to take other country's citizens being deported from the U.S. For others, new travel bans could be recommended as soon as August. A Department of Homeland Security official says the move is key to U.S. national security. The countries on this latest list are mostly African, along with Caribbean and Pacific Island nations, as were the countries hit with travel restrictions earlier this month. Critics call the bans racially and religiously discriminatory. Tovia Smith in PR News. The man accused in the assassination of a Minnesota state lawmaker and the wounding

of another has had his first court appearance. 57-year-old Vance Belter had a hit list of dozens of elected officials, according to a court affidavit. NPR's Meg Anderson has more. Meg Anderson, NPR News Anchor Officials are calling this a political assassination. Police got into what they say is Bolter's car and found a notebook in there containing the names of at least 45 Minnesota state and federal officials and lawmakers. A federal affidavit says they were quote mostly or all Democrats. Officials say there were also lawmakers on the list from other states, Wisconsin, Illinois,

Michigan, Nebraska, Iowa, and also abortion providers like Planned Parenthood. Police say they also recovered six guns, and authorities have said that if the man had not been interrupted, they are confident he would have kept going. Meg Anderson reporting. U.S. futures are lower in after-hours trading on Wall Street, and on Asia Pacific market shares are down,

but up a fraction in Tokyo. This is NPR. A warning here. This report carries sexual references. Jurors in the Rakutenin case against Sean Diddy Combs have seen excerpts from three sex videos allegedly seized from the defendant's home. Prosecutors also showed the jurors text messages between former Combs' girlfriend Cassie Ventura and a sex worker seen in one of the videos.

Combs has pleaded not guilty to all of the criminal counts against him, including sex trafficking. The hip-hop music mogul faces up to life in prison if convicted. Average prices for the most popular concert tickets have dropped for the first time in over a decade. But as NPR's Netta Ulubi reports, they're still pricey. It's still not cheap to see superstars like Beyonce in the flesh. Put them hands together! We clapping! Concert ticket prices have soared over the past 20 years, and the average cost of a ticket to any of the top 100 tours is $120.

Still, that's 6% less than last year, according to the industry group Polestar. It's the first time in more than a decade, except for the pandemic, that ticket prices have dropped. Polestar says the lower prices reflect uneven economic conditions. And while the cost of the cheapest tickets are going down, the best ones are only getting more expensive. Nata Ulibi, NPR News. The Louvre Museum in Paris was closed for most of Monday as staff protested working

conditions, including long lines. Thousands of visitors waited, many of them confused about what was happening. The protest came a day after anti-tourism demonstrations swept across Southern Europe. This is NPR News.