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These days, there's so much news. It can be hard to keep up with what it all means for you, your family, and your community. The Consider This podcast from NPR features our award-winning journalism. Six days a week, we bring you a deep dive on a news story and provide the context and analysis that helps you make sense of the news. We get behind the headlines. We get to the truth. Listen to the Consider This podcast from NPR. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Nora Rahm. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky will visit President Trump at the White House tomorrow. When the two men met there in February, the encounter became contentious, with Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance berating the visitor.

This time, he's bringing support. NPR's Franco Ordonez has more. Several European and NATO leaders will be joining Zelensky, including the European Union Chief Ursula Vanderman and French President Emmanuel Macron, as well as the NATO Secretary General. But Trump has already made clear that he was going to push Zelensky to make a deal. And that would likely mean giving up Ukrainian territory. And that seems like it's going to be really tough for Zelensky to do.

Zelensky has said emphatically that Ukraine will not give up land to an occupier that said he did say Zelensky, that is, that he's open to a trilateral summit with Russia, Ukraine, and the U.S. NPR's Franco Ordonez. A mass shooting overnight in Brooklyn, New York left three. people dead and nine wounded. The victims range in age from 19 to 61. NPR's Amy Held reports police say it is feud broke out in a lounge and they're looking for multiple shooters. It was crowded at the taste of the city lounge after 3 a.m. Sunday in the Crown Heights neighborhood. When multiple people opened fire, authorities say, police responded quickly and found the victims inside, plus 42 shell casings. New York City Police Commissioner Jessica

Tish says the shooting is terrible and not typical. We have the lowest number of shooting incidents and shooting victims seven months into the year that we've seen on record in the city of New York. Something like this is, of course, thank God, an anomaly. Tish says the incident appears to be gang-related, as are around 60% of the city's shootings. Amy held NPR News. The State Department says all visitor visas for people from Gaza are being stopped. in order to conduct a full review of the procedures used to issue a small number of medical visas. The announcement comes after a Trump supporter called the medical evacuees a national security threat.

NPR's Aipatrera reports. In her post on X, Laura Lumer reposts a video by a group called Heel Palestine, showing children from Gaza arriving to the U.S. for medical treatment. Supporters cheer on their arrival. Lumer writes in the post, why are any Islamic invaders coming into the U.S. under the Trump admin? In subsequent posts, she says she hopes all people from Gaza who came for medical care during the war are deported and that Muslim countries should be taking them in. Heel Palestine has helped some children from Gaza who've lost their limbs in Israeli attacks,

received prosthetics and treatment in the U.S. It's a fraction of what the World Health Organization says are more than 10,000 Palestinians in need of urgent medical treatment outside Gaza. A. Abatrawi, Empire News. This is NPR News. Air Canada says it plans to resume flights today after the government ordered flight attendants back to work. They went on strike early yesterday, stranding more than 100,000 travelers around the world

during the summer travel season. Voters in Bolivia have a full slate of candidates to choose from in today's presidential elections, but the biggest name in Bolivian politics of the last 20 years are not running. NPR's Carrie Khan, report, Ex-President Devo Morales, a controversial icon of Latin America's left, is barred from the contest. He's also facing arrest on statutory rape charges, which he denies.

His socialist Moss Party has dominated Bolivia for decades. He's told his fervent supporters to nullify their ballots. The current president also from Moss isn't running either. He's deeply unpopular as Bolivia faces its worst economic crisis in decades. Inflation is soaring, poverty is rising, and dollar reserves are low. making imports, especially gas, scarce. Leading polls are two right-wing candidates, a multimillionaire businessman, and a former president. Both have run three times before and say they will open up Bolivia's economy and improve relations with the U.S.

Kerry Kahn, NPR News. The world humanoid robot games wrapped up in Beijing today. 280 teams from 16 countries took part in the three-day event, competing in soccer, track and field, and boxing. The robots often crashed in. to each other. Some required human help to get back up. The audience cheer those robots who are able to get up on the road. I'm Nora Rom. NPR News in Washington.