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Dale Willman· Host0:15

Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Wilman. President Trump will head to Turkey this week for this year's NATO summit. Many members of NATO are anxious about the changing alliance role of the US. Trump has pulled some US troops from Europe and has demanded for some time that European countries pay more of a share for the cost of NATO. David Candler is a senior fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis. He says the conversation in Turkey will include discussing spending.

David Candler· Soundbite0:42

The Trump administration in the president's first term and now in his second term has actually played a pretty significant role in attracting other nations' attention to the spending level and getting that agreement, not just to reach the two percent from the Wales commitment from some years ago, but also to the five percent commitment that came out of the Hague summit. But what's most important now moving forward that the spending is rising is actually translating the spending into real military capability. I think that's one of the things that this summit is gonna focus on.

Dale Willman· Host1:09

Police in Memphis say National Guard troops fired their weapons in the early morning hours Sunday, killing a man who was armed with a handgun. NPR's Joel Rose has our reports.

Joel Rose1:19

Police say officers were responding to calls of shots fired in downtown Memphis just before four AM local time when they saw, quote, "An armed male carrying a handgun." The man, identified by