"Live from NPR News," I'm Lakshmi Singh.
Restaurants, bars, construction, health care, local governments all account for the steady
“source of job gains, and a much stronger than predicted jobs report for the month of”
May. The Labor Department revealed today that the economy added 172,000 jobs, not so much in the financial sector where banks and insurance companies lost jobs. A federal judge in Rhode Island has struck down several policies that limited legal immigration and PRS-Hemenibu's deal reports is a latest legal setback for efforts to slow down the
processing of applications from people already in the U.S. In his opinion, Judge John McConnell Jr., says recent policy changes place the lives of "countless individuals on hold solely by virtue of their country's birth." About six months ago, the administration paused the processing of any immigration application
from citizens of the 39 countries with travel restrictions to the U.S.
This includes work permit renewals, visas, green cards, and citizenship applications. The administration has justified its policies by saying more vetting needs to be done.
“Other federal judges have ordered the administration to process the applications for its”
elect group of immigrants who have joined various lawsuits. Hemenibu's deal and PR News. "Pelistinian authorities are expressing alarm over the Israeli parliament's decision to give tax breaks to residents of illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank, Nuhamus Le Hezmour from Ramallah."
Then U.L. gave residents of dozens of settlements, tax breaks of several thousand dollars a year. Although it is illegal under international law, Israelis encouraging settlement on occupied Palestinian property. Palestinian authority official Amir Ode told NPR the move was stepped towards illegally
annexing the U.S. bank. Earlier this year, the Israeli government extended controls over the territory, and allowed
“Jewish Israelis to buy West Bank land directly.”
Attacks by Israeli settlers have also increased in an attempt to drive Palestinian families from the West Bank, according to a report by U.N. experts this week. For NPR News, I'm Nuhamus Le Hezmour. Today we are remembering our colleagues, award-winning NPR photojournalist, David Gilkey and Afghan interpreter for NPR and photojournalist Zabi Ula Tamanah.
They were targeted and killed in Afghanistan covering the war ten years ago today. Gilkey covered many stories for NPR, including wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti. "It's hard, but you can't get caught up in it and become part of it. You still need to maintain your state of mind that you are helping tell this story."
David Gilkey and Zabi Tamanah are the only NPR journalists to have been killed in the line of duty. From Washington, this is NPR News. Grand Platner, the leading Democratic candidate in Maine's competitive Senate race, tells Mersation Main Public the latest allegations against a mark "not true."
NPR is accused of using physicality with a female partner, according to yesterday's New York Times article. Britain's public spending watchdog says King Charles's disgraced brother Andrew Mount Baton Windsor was making money off royal properties while living rent-free. Andrew was evicted from a royal lodge earlier this year as police investigate his ties
to the late-convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, and PR's Learn Fair reports. Until April Andrew earned rental income from three Windsor estate cottages he was subledding while he lived for free in another one. He also charged rent to his staff.
And his daughters, Princesses, Beatrice and Eugene, who are not working royals, were never
the less living in royal palaces with their rent paid by their uncle King Charles. This is all from the public spending watchdogs first report on royal residences in 20 years. Reading in palaces the report is in line with its commitment to transparency. Andrew denies wrongdoing in his friendship with Epstein but is still under police investigation for allegedly passing him secrets.
Lauren Fryer and PR News London. U.S. stocks have ended the day sharply lower. The NASDAQ closed down more than 1,100 points, or more than 4% at a 25,709. The Dow closed down nearly 700 points, the S&P was down 200, it's NPR News. This week on the MPR Politics Podcast, catch up with the week's big primary election news,
how things played out with newly drawn districts in California, and an increasingly competitive Senate race in Iowa. Plus, we unpack the latest redistricting news that may benefit Republicans in the fall. Listen every afternoon to the MPR Politics Podcast.
