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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Korva Coleman. Representatives from Ukraine and Russia have held a second round of peace talks in Istanbul, Turkey today. These lasted for only an hour. This comes as Ukraine's security service says it will continue to strike Russia's bombers and other military targets
as long as Russian attacks continue on Ukraine. NPR's Joanna Kakisis reports from Kiev, Ukraine claims it hit more than 40 Russian warplanes deep in Russian territory. In a statement, the head of Ukraine's security service, Lieutenant General Vassil Malyuk, said Russia uses these planes to bomb Ukraine nearly every night. He wrote on social media, our strikes will continue as long as Russia terrorizes Ukrainians with missiles and Shahid drones.
In this weekend's operation, officially dubbed Spiderweb, Malyuk explained that it was a task that took more than 18 months to plan. It involved hiding drones inside the roofs of wooden cabins placed on trucks. Malyuk said the roofs were opened remotely and the drones flew out to hit the Russian bombers. Russia acknowledges the bombers were hit, but is disputing the scale. Joanna Kakisis, NPR News, Kyiv.
An official with the Department of Homeland Security has issued a statement about the suspect in yesterday's attack on a group of peaceful marchers in Boulder, Colorado. The official says the suspect came to the U.S. on a visa that expired more than two years ago and that he had earlier applied for asylum. Officials say the suspect threw incendiary devices into a group of people in Boulder yesterday. Alex Osante was an eyewitness. One of them he threw inside of a group.
At the group, one lady lit on fire from head to toe, and then the other four people were also injured and in the fire, but not as bad as the first one. The marchers had been gathering weekly in Boulder to highlight the plight of Israeli citizens held in Gaza. Authorities say they're investigating the attack as an act of terrorism.
The city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, is raising money for a $105 million charitable trust. Organizers say they'll use the donations to repair harm for the Tulsa Race Massacre. From member station KWGS, Max Bryan has more. As many as 300 people were killed and dozens of homes and businesses leveled in the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre when a white mob razed the city's prosperous black neighborhood of Greenwood.
Tulsa Mayor Monroe Nichols announced the trust, which will put millions of dollars toward housing, reducing blight, land acquisition for descendants, and spurring economic growth. There is not one Tulsa, no matter of their skin color, who wouldn't be better off today had the massacre not happened. The mayor's announcement follows city officials' creation of a commission to explore reparations for descendants of massacre survivors and people who live in the area today.
For NPR News, I'm Max Bryan in Tulsa. You're listening to NPR.
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear a challenge involving guns. The justices turned away a challenge to a Maryland law that bans assault-style weapons. The law was passed more than a decade ago after the mass shooting in a classroom of children and educators at Sandy Hook Elementary. Other states have similar measures. The court's majority did not offer a reason why it did not take the case.
But three justices said they disagreed. A fourth justice said such bans are probably unconstitutional.
Groundwater reserves in the western U.S. are rapidly drying up. From member station KUNC, Alex Hager reports scientists used NASA satellites to gather data for a new study. The numbers they found are grim. Over the past two decades, the Colorado River Basin lost nearly 28 million acre-feet of groundwater. That's roughly the amount stored in Lake Mead, the nation's
largest reservoir. Kathleen Ferris is a groundwater expert at Arizona State University. She wasn't involved in the study, but says groundwater pumping needs better regulation. We need to do far more than we're doing. And I am very pessimistic.
that the political will to make something happen is not there. Ferris said stricter rules are needed soon because of the shrinking Colorado River. More cities, businesses, and farms are pumping groundwater as the amount on the surface gets smaller. For NPR News, I'm Alex Hager in Fort Collins, Colorado. The National Weather Service has issued air quality alerts for nearly all of Minnesota. That's due to Canadian wildfires. The wildfires have forced more than 25,000 people to evacuate.
I'm Corva Coleman, NPR News. Listen to this podcast sponsor-free on Amazon Music with a Prime membership