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I'm Rachel Martin, host of Wildcard from NPR. I've spent years interviewing all kinds of people, and I've realized there are ideas that we all think about, but don't talk about very much. So I made a shortcut, a deck of cards with questions that anyone can answer, questions that go deep into the experiences that shape us. Listen to the Wild Card podcast only from NPR. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dave Mattingly. European leaders say President Trump is offering them assurances there will be no negotiations on Ukrainian territory when he meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin this week. The two are scheduled to sit down tomorrow in Anchorage, Alaska, to talk about Russia ending its war with Ukraine. Trump spoke virtually yesterday with European leaders, as well as Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, who was in Germany alongside that country's chancellor.

They urged Trump to press Putin for a ceasefire and security guarantees for Ukraine, as Terry Schultz reports. After the teleconference with President Trump, European Council President Antonia Costa, said the U.S. President and Europeans agree on three main priorities for the Friday summit. First, a ceasefire, Costa said. Then, that only Ukraine can negotiate matters concerning Ukraine. And third, the willingness of the United States to share efforts with U.S. Europe to strengthen security conditions when a lasting and just peace is achieved for Ukraine. NATO Secretary General Mark Ruta was also on the call with Trump. He said it was great and showed Europe, Trump, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to be on the same page.

We are united in pushing to end this terrible war against Ukraine, Ruta wrote on X and to achieve just and lasting peace. For NPR News, I'm Terry Schultz in Brussels. It was a year ago today, the World Health Organization declared M-Pox to be a public health emergency of international concern. That's the WHO's highest alert level. As NPR's Gabriela Emmanuel reports, critics say the response since then has fallen short. M-Pox, formerly known as Monkeypox, causes painful legions, and in rare cases, it can be deadly. The virus has spread across Africa, with 23 countries now dealing with outbreaks, many for the first time.

The global health response has been hindered by conflict, massive, cuts to foreign aid, bureaucratic mazes, and MPox vaccines expiring before they were shipped to the epicenter. Bohuma Tutangi is at Emory University. For every two steps of progress that have been made, they have been three steps backwards. She says the global north has become complacent and forgotten how quickly this virus spread around the globe in 2022. Gabriela Emmanuel and PR News. Some residents of Washington, D.C. say they're not happy about President Trump placing the city's police under federal control, along with the deployment of hundreds of National Guard troops in an effort to reduce crime. Heckler shouted, go home and get off our

streets at a federal law enforcement yesterday at a security checkpoint in northwest Washington. Wall Street is coming off a day of gains, as well as new record high finishes for the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ. This is NPR News. The Port of Los Angeles says July was its busiest month ever. More than a million shipping containers passed through the port during the month. That's a record. As NPR Scott Horsley reports, the Port of L.A. is a major gateway for products from Asia. Import traffic at the Port of L.A. was up 8% from the same month a year ago.

Port Director Gene Soroka says that may have been the high watermark for this year. Not surprisingly, much of this volume was fueled by importers, hustlers, to bring in cargo ahead of potential tariff hikes later this month and beyond. Tariffs on goods from Japan and South Korea jump from 10 to 15% this month, while tariffs on goods from Taiwan and Vietnam doubled to 20%. The tax on imports from China is even higher, averaging around 55%. That rate was just extended for another 90 days. Scott Horsley, MPR News, Washington.

Authorities in Pennsylvania say three people are under arrest and charged, with stealing more than $2 million from an armored truck in Philadelphia. The robbery of the Brinks truck occurred on June 21st. Prosecutors say two of the suspects forced a Brinks driver to the ground that day while armed with semi-automatic rifles. The suspects are facing federal charges. Police are investigating whether the suspects are linked to several other robberies or attempted robberies of armored vehicles. One of them involved the theft of $700,000 from a Brink's truck outside Philadelphia. Wall Street futures are mixed this morning.

Dow Futures are up three, S&P futures, down three. I'm Dave Mattingly in Washington. There's a lot of news happening. You want to understand it better, but let's be honest, you don't want it to be your entire life either. Well, that's sort of like our show,

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