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European Union leaders are speaking out against President Trump's decision to temporarily allow Russian oil exports to help ease prices amid the war in Iran.
Terry Schultz reports the move comes after the other six countries in the G7 urged Washington to keep the curbs in place.
European Council President Antonio Costa calls it very concerning that President Trump has decided unilaterally to let Russia sell oil that's been restricted from the international market due to Moscow's war on Ukraine.
Costa says it's a matter of European security that the Kremlin not have more money to fund its war.
European Commission spokesperson Siobhan McGarry confirms the EU sanctions will remain.
Russia should absolutely not benefit from the war on Iran.
The European Commission says it calculates that Moscow's already been...
earning an extra 150 million U.S.
dollars per day since U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran began.
On a visit to Norway,
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said it's wrong to ease sanctions on Russia for any reason.
For NPR News, I'm Terry Schultz in Oslo.
Thousands of airport TSA officers missed their first full paycheck on Friday.
They've been working without pay for nearly a month during a partial government shutdown tied to the Trump administration's immigration crackdown policies.
NPR's Joel Rose reports.
Many TSA security officers live paycheck to paycheck.
And they're struggling, says Johnny Jones.
He's the secretary treasurer of the American Federation of Government Employees Council 100,
the union that represents about 45,000 TSA officers nationwide.