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the road this holiday weekend with gasoline prices near a four-year high.
“And PR Scott Horsley reports on the unofficial start to the summer driving season."”
"Hi gasoline prices, don't seem to dampen our national fondness for road trips.
Triple A says a record 45 million people are expected to travel this weekend, including
more than 39 million by car. Following the tank, we'll cause more," the average price of regular gasoline's $4.55 a gallon, that's up about $1.36 from this time last year. The spike in gas prices caused by the U.S. War with Iran is pushing inflation higher, that'll be a challenge for incoming Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Worsh.
He's being sworn in at the White House today by President Trump. U.S. stocks open higher this morning, Asian stocks were also up over night with Japan's Nikkei average climbing to a record high. Scott Horsley, in PR news, Washington. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is attending a NATO summit in Sweden.
He says the U.S. should consistently question the value of the Western military alliance.
"If you go back 30 years, there's never been a time in which there hasn't been a debate
“in American politics about what our presence and our contribution to NATO should be.”
And that is always driven by what is the value of NATO to the United States. I understand NATO's value of what a Europe and it should be. It also has to be valuable to the United States." Rubio is also talking about European countries that denied the Trump administration that use of their military bases as the U.S. launched its war on Iran.
Some European countries were blindsided by the start of the war and many opposing. Rubio's visit comes as President Trump appears to have reversed himself on one matter. Writing online, Trump says the United States will now deploy 5,000 of its troops to Poland. That comes after he recently said the U.S. would withdraw 5,000 troops from Germany. Trump was vexed after Germany's leader criticized the war.
Venezuela's officials have released a few dozen political prisoners, but the head of Venezuela's national assembly had announced hundreds of prisoners would be released by the end of the week. And beer's carry con reports among those freed are three of the longest held political prisoners in Venezuela.
“"Less than 40 detainees had been released from Venezuela and prisons as of Thursday morning,”
according to the human rights group for up and now," Jorge Rodriguez, the head of the national assembly, and the brother of the interim president had said 300 prisoners would be released on humanitarian grounds. Authorities did release three men, former police officers, who had spent each more than 20 years in Venezuela and custody.
They were convicted in connection to the deaths of protesters during a 2002 opposition march. In Wright's group say there are at least 400 political prisoners still held in jails, despite an amnesty law passed this year, and pledges of more releases this week, including from President Trump.
Carry con and PR news. "You're listening to NPR." The World Health Organization is changing its risk guidance for the Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of the Congo. Lily Wachow, director General Tedras Adnaham Gabriacis, says there are as many as 750 suspected
cases, and he expects more. He says the regional risk for Ebola cases is high, but a global threat remains low.
For the first time, a planned parenthood organization is prescribing abortion medication for
patients who are not pregnant. And PR Selena Simmons' death and reports, the service allows patients to have the medication at home, in case they need it. The new service is called just in case abortion pills, and it's being offered by Planned Parenthood Great Northwest Hawaii, Alaska, Indiana, and Kentucky.
Rebecca Gibran is the CEO. As evidence supporting this model of care has continued to grow, and with supportive policy environments in Washington, and in Hawaii, this really is the right time for us to step into this space. The service is available to residents of Washington and Hawaii.
They can get it via telehealth or in-person at 16 health centers, demand for getting abortion medication to have on hand spikes when abortion restrictions are in the news. Selena Simmons' death and PR News. NASCAR CUP series champion Kyle Bush has died suddenly, according to his racing team. He was 41.
The statement says he had been hospitalized with a severe illness. Bush had just won a race last week in Delaware. Kyle Bush raced for more than 20 years and 163 NASCAR CUP races. I'm Core of a Coleman, NPR News. On consider this NPR's afternoon news podcast, we cover everything from politics to the
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