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Support for NPR comes from NPR member stations and Eric and Wendy Schmidt through the Schmidt Family Foundation, working toward a healthy, resilient, secure world for all. On the web at theshmit.org. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dan Ronan. The European Union is criticizing the Trump administration's decision to block Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas from attending the United Nations General Assembly next month. Terry Schultz reports the U.S. move is believed to be a reaction to the plans by several countries, including European governments, to recognize a Palestinian state at that session. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and some 80 other Palestinian representatives may not attend the annual UN meeting in New York due to actions, quote, undermining peace efforts with Israel and seeking recognition of a Palestinian state. France, among other countries, intends to extend diplomatic recognition to a Palestinian state at the September session. EU foreign policy chief, Kayakhalis, is calling on the State Department to change its mind.

We all urge for this decision to be reconsidered, considering the international law and the way United Nations has been built up. Collis is referring to the 1947 agreement governing the U.S. role as host of the U.N. headquarters, which does not allow it to block foreign officials from attending meetings there. For NPR News, I'm Terry Schultz. in Brussels. The Trump administration is canceling more than $600 million for ports across the country. The grants were to support the growing offshore wind power industry. NPR's Lorne Summer reports. Offshore wind turbines are much bigger than those on land. So ports need special infrastructure to build wind farms on the ocean. Many ports around the country were hoping to become economic hubs for the industry. The Trump administration is now canceling $679 million in federal grants for

12 port projects. In a statement, the Department of Transportation called the project's wasteful. Trump has been a longtime critic of wind power and ordered a Rhode Island offshore wind farm to stop construction just a week ago. Energy analysts say hampering the wind industry could drive up electricity prices given the country's growing need for power. Lorne Summer and PR News. Chicago officials say they're preparing for the possibility President Trump will deploy National Guard troops in that city. Today, Mayor Brandon Johnson, and signed an executive order in response to a possible move by the White House that Johnson says will protect the rights of Chicago citizens.

This sweeping executive order directs our Department of Law to pursue any and every legal mechanism to hold this administration accountable for violating the rights of Chicagoans. This order affirms that the Chicago Police Department will not collaborate with military personnel on police patrols or civil immigration enforcement. Earlier this week, the Trump and administration asked officials at the Naval Station Great Lakes, which is 35 miles north of Chicago for support for its immigration enforcement effort. City leaders say they're preparing for multiple scenarios from troops patrolling the streets to a cracked out against suspected

undocumented people. You're listening to NBR News. The Russian composer Rodin Shidrin has died at the age of 92. He was one of the most important composers to emerge in the Soviet Union after the Stalin years, as NPR's Anastasia Tocallos reports. Rodian Chedrin was half of a performing arts power couple in the USSR, even though they were constantly surveilled by the KGB. His wife of 57 years was the famous Russian ballerina Maya Pluzetskaya, and he wrote five ballets for her, including his version of the Tolstoy novel Anna Kerenna.

Many musicians adored him, too. He wrote concertos for artists like cellist Mistislav Rastropovich and violinist Maxime Vengorov. They loved how he made their instruments sing. Anastasay Tsulkus and Pyrrano News, New York. Russia today launched a large aerial attack on southern Ukraine, just days after an airstrike in Kiev killed 32 people. Today's attack struck a residential building, leaving at least one person dead, 23 others wounded. Meanwhile, American-led peace efforts appear to have stalled. President Zelensky is expressing frustration over Russia's lack of interest in holding peace talks. Meanwhile, Zelensky is condemning the shooting death today of the former Speaker of the Ukraine Parliament who was gunned down in a western section of Ukraine by a man dressed as a courier.

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