Biden's NATO Speech, Ukraine Hospital Strike, Texas Execution Drugs

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🗓️ 10 July 2024

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President Biden spoke to world leaders at the NATO summit in Washington and sought to reassure them about the strength of the alliance and of his Presidency. Ukrainians are condemning a deadly missile strike on a children's hospital in Kyiv, and an NPR investigation tracked down one source of execution drugs in Texas.

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0:00.0	At a NATO summit President Biden reassured world leaders about the strength of their alliance.
0:07.0	How does he reassure his party about the strength of his presidential campaign?
0:11.0	The President is under pressure abroad and at home.
0:14.0	I'm Sasha Fyfer with Stephen's Keep and this is up first from NPR News.
0:20.0	Ukraine's president turned up for the NATO summit and he spoke of a missile strike on a children's hospital back home.
0:26.0	Coming up, we have an assessment of the damage.
0:28.0	Also an NPR investigation illuminates part of the process for death row in Texas.
0:34.0	The state executes people through lethal injection using a sedative,
0:37.8	and a state law shields information about the executions.
0:40.8	Our colleagues visit the pharmacy that provides the drugs.
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1:54.0	U.S. allies have a reminder this week of how much their fate is tied to the U.S. presidential
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