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Support for NPR, and the following message come from Yarl and Pamela Mohn, thanking the people who make public radio great every day and also those who listen. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton. President Trump says Ukraine can win back all territory at lost to Russia. That's a shift from earlier this year when he said Keev would have to make concessions to end the war. Trump made the comments after meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. Also, during the gathering of world leaders, President Trump said he thinks NATO members should shoot down Russian aircraft. NPR's Mara Liason reports. Trump's comments came after Russia sent planes into NATO airspace over Romania and after a Russian drone attack on Poland, another NATO member.

But when the president was asked if the U.S. would honor its NATO commitments and back up NATO allies if they shot down Russian planes, he was more equivocal, saying, quote, depends on the circumstance. But you know we're very strong towards. NATO. The U.S. President put off a question about his so far fruitless discussions about the war in Ukraine with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, asked whether he still trusts Putin. Trump said, I'll let you know about a month from now. Mara Liason, NPR News. In a Seattle courtroom today, lawyers for the Federal Trade Commission and Amazon made opening statements in a trial over the company's prime membership service. Joshua McNickles of member station KUOW reports, Amazon is accused of tricking people into signing up for Prime and making it hard for them to cancel. I'm standing outside the courtroom at 7th and Westlake in Seattle. On one corner is Amazon's headquarters. On the other is the federal courthouse.

In the courtroom, FTC lawyer Jonathan Cohen used the phrase stop, drop, and roll to describe Amazon's allegedly weak attempts to improve transparency on its website. Amazon would temporarily stop using deceptive web pages, notice a drop in new prime customers, and then roll back website improvement. in order to keep accidental prime signups coming in. Amazon's lawyer, Moez-Cabba, argued its attempts to improve transparency demonstrate an obsession with customer satisfaction. For NPR News, I'm Joshua McNacles in Seattle. YouTube says it plans to reinstate some accounts that have been banned for spreading COVID-19 and election-related falsehoods.

NPR's Bobby Allen reports. A letter from a Google lawyer to the House Judiciary Committee lays out the change. Those who are kicked off YouTube will soon have a way to come back. Google says it has retired a number of rules that had cracked down on YouTube channels that pushed COVID and election misinformation. Among the accounts that have been banned under those rules, former Trump advisor Steve Bannon, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who now runs Health and Human Services, and Dan Bongino, who is now the FBI's deputy director. Many social media companies are dismantling content rules that the Trump administration does not like. The Google lawyer

wrote to the Judiciary Committee that YouTube values conservative voices. on its platform. Bobby Allen, NPR News. U.S. stocks slipped today from Washington. This is NPR News. Jimmy Kimmel is set to return to television tonight after a suspension that triggered a national discussion about freedom of speech, but two groups of ABC affiliates say they won't air his return. Next Star Media Group and Sinclair Broadcast Group control about a quarter of ABC stations. ABC suspended Kimmel's show last week after his conference. After his comments about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

Residents of Portugal's Azores Island Chain is keeping track of Hurricane Gabriel as it moves northeast through the Atlantic. The islands are in the storm's projected path as NPR's Giles Snyder reports. Hurricane Gabriel is moving through the Atlantic as a major hurricane. The storm strengthened Monday into a powerful category four storm, kicking up large ocean swells in Bermuda and leading to warnings of life-threatening rip currents from North Carolina, north to Canada's Atlantic coast. The National Hurricane Center in Miami expects Gabrielle to have weakened by the time it approaches the Azores on Thursday, but forecasters say the storm will still be a hurricane, making it the first to potentially make landfall on the Azores in years. The hurricane

watches in effect for all nine islands and make up the archipelago. Forecasters are warning of destructive waves and significant coastal flooding. Trial Snyder NPR News. Shares of the toy retailer, Build a Bear are up more than 60% since the start of the year. Most of the toy industry has been soft in recent years, but profits have soared for the company, which specializes in plush animals that consumers make in brick-and-mortar stores. Craft-oriented products have done well since the COVID-19 pandemic. From Washington, this is NPR News.

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