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It's that time of gear again. Planet Money Summer School is back. This semester with help from professors, policy experts, and yes, even a Nobel laureate, we're diving into how government and the economy mixed and asking the big questions like, what role should government play in our economy? Does government intervention help or hurt and how big should the government be? That's on Planet Money Summer School from NPR, wherever you get your podcasts. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Skiyavoni. Having failed to to secure a war-ending deal for Ukraine in Friday talks. President Trump turns this week to talks with Ukraine's President Zelensky. As NPR's Franco Ordonez reports, Zelensky will have high-powered

supporters with him when he shows up for White House talks tomorrow. Several European and NATO leaders will be joining Zelensky, including the European Union chief Ursula von der Leyen 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, and a nationwide strike in Israel, opponents of a new Israeli offensive

in Gaza blocked roads and closed businesses. Israeli police responded with water cannons and arrests. The strike is organized by groups representing families of hostages who are concerned an escalation would gravely endanger the remaining hostages. Three people were killed at a nightclub shooting overnight in Brooklyn, New York. 11 people were wounded. NPR's Amy Held reports police say there were multiple shooters. It was crowded at the taste of the city lounge in the early hours of Sunday

in the Crown Heights neighborhood. Then, multiple people opened fire authorities said. Police responded quickly and found the victims inside the club, plus at least three dozen shell casings. New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch 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. Violent crime is down nationwide. but polling finds most Americans still feel like it's a big problem.

Amy Held and PR News. Air Canada says flights are set to resume after its striking flight attendants were ordered back to work and into arbitration. As Dan Carpenchuk reports, this is going to take a while. The Canada Industrial Relations Board directed the airline to have flight attendants back to work by Sunday afternoon. On Saturday, with the strike less than 12 hours old, Canada's jobs minister ordered an end to the strike in lockout and forced binding arbitration to end the dispute. Patty Heidu said the potential negative impact of the strike on Canadians and the economy was too great. The 10,000 flight

attendants walked out after talks on a new contract failed. The main issue, wages. The union is accused Ottawa of caving in to Air Canada's demands. The strike caused travel chaos as customers scrambled to find alternative airlines. For NPR News, I'm Dan Carpenchuk in Toronto. This is NPR News. Residents of a northwestern Pakistani district now coping with extreme flooding are blaming their country for failing to warn them. Pakistani authorities say the deluge was sudden and intense. More than 300 people have died. Dozens of bodies were pulled from homes that were flattened by heavy rains and landslides.

A new study using tax data found that affluent households nationwide are more likely than poor ones to move to another state or county after a climate disaster. Vermont Public's Abigail Giles reports. Researchers at the University of Vermont found this was especially true after floods and hurricanes. Human-cause climate change is making both phenomena more frequent and severe. Many lower-income households also moved, but didn't go far. The researchers say this could mean they're being forced into another unsafe living situation in the same community. Study author Gillian Galford says this net loss of resources from a community likely hurts disaster recovery. Individual's ability to respond to floods could be undermined as well as things like tax revenues.

Galford says more research is needed to understand how climate change is making people across the U.S. move. For NPR News, I'm Abigail Giles in Burlington, Vermont. Trade will be topic A when Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney visits Mexico next month, according to senior Canadian officials. Carney and Mexican President Claudia Scheinbaum are looking at. diversifying trade as certain sectors are facing heavy U.S. tariffs. I'm Louise Skiyvone, NPR News, Washington.