"Lie from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh.
The Trump White House's reason to celebrate over the latest jobs reported as the president's
“dog by low approval ratings in a midterm election year.”
Last month, employers added 172,000 jobs to their payrolls. The unemployment rate held at 4.3%. With more on where people have been picking up more work, here's NPR Scott Horsley. Much of the hiring in May was in restaurants and local government, health care, which has been a steady source of job growth added another 35,000 jobs last month.
Construction companies also added workers in May while banks and insurance companies cut jobs. NPR Scott Horsley House Republicans came out with a budget proposal this week for the Department
of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education for the next fiscal year.
NPR's Anarchy method reports it includes many cuts to education with some increases for a special ed.
“After the 2026-27 school year, Republicans are proposing to cut $1.6 billion from one of”
the biggest sources of federal funding for low-income students. Title 1, which reaches more than 2/3 of the nation's schools. There'd also be cuts to spending on students learning English, teacher training programs, and K-12 schools and colleges that allow transgender girls and women to participate in women's sports.
There is a slight funding increase for special education, though the federal office that oversees those programs is expected to move to other agencies. As the Trump administration downsizes the federal education department, the House Bill makes no mention of those expected moves, in Congress has until September 30th to approve the bill.
Juna Kimetha and PR News President Trump says he wants his new acting director of national
“intelligence, Bill Pulti, to further scale back the office.”
Trump's speaking of reporters on Air Force 1 in an earlier interview with the Wall Street Journal, Trump said he asked Pulti to begin the process of dismissing more national intelligence employees. Ukraine and Russia have carried out another exchange of prisoners of war. And PR's HANA Polymerenko reports from Kiev that 185 Ukrainian servicemen and one civilian
return to Ukraine and 185 soldiers went home to Russia. Ukrainian State Board of Arts Service shows footage of the released prisoners of war sending the Ukrainian National Anthem as they arrived to Ukraine and territory. According to Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, Motorola Benets, most of them had been held captive since 2022.
He noted that among those released by a father-and-son who served in the same brigade and were captured only one day apart. Lupinets added that partners from the United States and the United Arab Emirates played a significant role in this exchange, as well as in previous exchanges. HANA Polymerenko and PR News to you.
It's NPR. And the Pali Men working as a Sherpa has been found alive on Mount NPR. On average, seven days after he went missing, Schweter Desai has a latest. NPR was hired as a cook-by-a-company that leads expeditions up Mount Everest, but he was ordered to accompany foreign climbers to the summit because of the shortage of manpower.
Shared power went missing on May 29, near an area known as the Yellow Band. It's also known as the Dead Zone. He was found by employees of a pollution control committee who were working near the base camp. They were cleaning up refuse left behind by climbers. Shared power's family is questioning why a search for the man did not happen sooner.
Nepali Media have highlighted the incident as an example of shorty regulations that put locals and tourist at risk in climbing the world's highest mountain. For NPR news, I'm Schweter Desai in Mumbai. I'm Lakshmi Singh and PR news in Washington. It's June and another big week in the run-up to the midterms, primaries and half a dozen states
including California where new congressional maps are in place and a chaotic race for Governor is wide open. We're also following gas prices and Iran. So far, talk of a peace deal is just talk. We'll keep you posted.
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