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attack on Ukraine's capital, Keith, has killed at least 18 people and injured another 90.
“And beer's Joanna Kikis' reports from Keith, Russia says these attacks are in retaliation”
for Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil infrastructure.
The Ukrainian Air Force had it shot down most of the Russian drones, but the third of the
missiles got through, writing on social media, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, said that at least 20 sites around the city were hit, most were apartment buildings. In a statement, Russia's Ministry of Defense said the overnight strikes on Keith were aimed at military and energy sites. Russia is facing fuel shortages after weeks of long-range drone strikes by Ukraine on oil
depots and refineries. US-led talks to end Russia's war on Ukraine have stalled as the Trump administration has focused on the Iran war. Joanna Kikis' NPR News cave in the U.S. stocks opened higher this morning, as the labor department reported a slowdown in job growth last month.
NPR Scott Horsley reports the Dow Jones industrial average jumped more than 340 points in early
trading.
“US employers added just 57,000 jobs in June, a mark-down shift from the two previous”
month, revised figures also show that hiring an April in May was weaker than initially reported. Health care and construction companies continue to add jobs at a modest pace last month, but restaurants and retailers cut workers. The unemployment rate inched down, but only because hundreds of thousands of people stopped
looking for work. Average wages in June were up 3.5% from a year ago, but that's not enough to keep pace with stubborn inflation. The weaker than expected jobs report may make the Federal Reserve more cautious about raising interest rates as it tries to bring prices under control.
Scott Horsley and Pernu is Washington. People are pouring over President Trump's financial disclosure form, released only this week. It's nearly 1,000 pages long, and it says President Trump and his family took in more than
one billion dollars last year.
About half of that came from his family's interests in cryptocurrency. President Trump says he does not personally handle his own investments, and he says that means he doesn't have any conflicts of interest. But him peers Lyndick Kenyan says Trump's critics disagree. Congressmen Jason Crowe called the President's crypto earnings another example of what he
termed "grift and corruption." The Colorado Democrat also pointed out the Trump on Wednesday, was taking his first flight on a brand new Air Force one, a gift from a foreign government, cutter, valued at more than $400 million in will stay in the Trump realm when he leaves office. The White House says the aircraft will be a donation to Trump's presidential library.
And beer is Lyndick Kenyan reporting. This is NPR. Officials in Venezuela say the earthquake death toll is nearly 2,300 people. There are relief efforts underway in the U.S., Atlanta is home to one of the largest populations of Venezuela and immigrants in the country, according to the migration policy
institute. From member station W.A.B.E. and Atlanta, Lily Oppenheimer reports, many Venezuelan immigrants are organizing donations. Volunteers in Atlanta's Venezuelan store have spent days packing boxes with emergency supplies.
It's usually a bodega and restaurant, but now half the store is dedicated to the donation process.
“Owner Laurainda Pestana says one of the most important things people can bring are medicines.”
You know Venezuela is not like a regular country, like it's very hard for us to find medicines there and right now of course worse. Like Pestana, most Venezuelans have saw asylum here within the last decade. She says it's been an emotional year, but now thanks to God, she's witnessing not just Venezuela's, but an even more diverse group of people coming into help.
More NPR news, I'm Lily Oppenheimer in Atlanta. Three more teams have advanced in the World Cup Soccer Tournament England, which be Congo yesterday, Belgium, which defeated Senegal and the United States, which beat Bosnia Herzegovina. There are three more matches set for today. Spain will face Austria in England, California.
Portugal will play Croatian in Toronto, Canada. Switzerland will take on Algeria in Vancouver, Canada. The teams that lose today are knocked out of the World Cup Tournament. This is NPR.
