Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Spear.

There are reports tonight former President Donald Trump will face additional charges of

obstruction of justice and will for retention of documents, apparently based on allegations

around efforts to delete surveillance footage at his Mar-Lago estate.

Meanwhile, in a separate probe, lawyers for Trump met today in Washington with members

of Special Counsel Jack Smith's team.

Democrats awarded indictment may be near over Trump's efforts to overturn results of the

2020 election.

Earlier this month, Trump's lawyers would inform the former president's a target of

a justice department investigation that usually means an indictment is imminent.

President Biden today announced new actions aimed at protecting communities from extreme

heat.

As NPR's Barbara Spont explains, he met virtually with mayors from two major cities grappling

with high temperatures.

President Biden is directing the Department of Labor to issue a hazard alert for dangerous

conditions in industries like agriculture and construction, where workers face a greater

risk of injury and death from extreme heat.

For the farm workers who have the harvest crops in the dead of night to avoid the high temperatures,

or farmers with risk losing everything they planted for the year, or the construction workers

who literally risk their lives working all day and blazing heat.

And in some places, don't even have the right to take a water break.

That's outrageous.

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