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to its investigation of the 2020 election in George's most populous county, a memo obtained by the Associated Press describes it as a priority for the agency, as Melissa Faito from member station W. A. B. E. reports.
“Fulton County has been a key part of President Donald Trump's unfounded claims that 2020 presidential”
election was stolen from him. The memo does not describe details of the investigation program. People familiar with the matter who insisted on anonymity to discuss internal decision making confirmed with the AP. It's related to the probe into the 2020 election in Georgia. The FBI field office in Atlanta declined a request for comment. The bureau rated a Fulton County elections office in January where hundreds of boxes of elections records
and ballots were seized. The county has sued to get its records back, but in May a judge decided the federal government could keep them. For NPR News, I'm Melissa Faito in Atlanta. The former special counsel who brought federal indictments against President Trump is
speaking publicly for the first time in an interview on MSNow, Jack Smith spoke at length
about his concerns for the reputation of President Trump's Department of Justice, and Pierce Jacqueline Diaz has more. Jack Smith says he believes the rule of law is under attack, but not dead under the Trump
“administration. His hour-long sit down with MSNow's Nicole Wallace was a first-first”
myth who did not do live interviews. He resigned from the DOJ before Trump returned to office. Now he's weighing in on criminal investigations into the likes of former FBI director James Komi, saying cases against Komi, for example, have no merit. The only reasonable explanation is the president has it out for these people, and he has people who hit former personal lawyers who are going to do what he says regarding this
in the faction law. Smith says he believes in the career staff at the DOJ, and that they will fight to do the right thing. Jacqueline Diaz and PR News. The war in Iran has caused the number of products around the globe to increase in price, including fertilizer, as NPR's Joe Hernandez reports experts say US farmers and not consumers will pay the price.
Browned one-third of the world's fertilizer shipped by C passes through the state of Hormuz,
which became a choke point during the war. For US farmers, that's meant higher fertilizer
“prices due to an overall shrinkage of the global fertilizer market. But food systems experts”
say those costs are unlikely to hike prices at the grocery store. Fertilizer is just one part of a farmer's budget, and growers are typically unable to increase crop prices and response to rising operating costs. Some fertilizer prices have come down recently, but experts say it could take weeks or even months before the sector returns to normal. Joe Hernandez and PR News.
US employers pulled back on hiring last month, and added only 57,000 jobs, less than half the previous month's total, and assigned companies to have a cautious economic outlook. This is NPR. The New Jersey is set to charge companies whose workers are on Medicaid. California's lawmakers are calling on their state to do the same thing next year. It's an idea that other states
are considering, as new federal policies mean fewer people have coverage, and states have to put more of the bill when they do. The National Weather Service has issued extreme heat warnings for much of the central and northeast of the United States. The dangers high temperatures are likely to last through the independent state weekend. As NPR's reto-chattergy reports extreme heat is a risk not
just to physical health, but also people's mental health. People with pre-existing mental health conditions are the most vulnerable to the mental health impacts of extreme heat. Studies show that a summer temperatures rise, so do number of visits to emergency departments for mental health conditions. Amruthanori Sarma is an environmental health research at Harvard University.
We look at things like mood disorders, anxiety and stress disorders, schizophrenia, self-harm, substance use disorders, and we saw similar end creases in the rates of emergency department visits across these different causes. Experts advise people with mental health issues to try and stay in cool places and talk with their doctors about their risks. Re-thu-chattergy and peer news.
A prosecutor's say a man who scale the Empire State Building's antenna with his girlfriend and unfurled a banner about love yesterday told police they wanted to do something special for their engagement. The couple was arranged on felony reckless endangerment, burglary and other charges today. Angela Nicolao and even Birkas were the subjects of a 2024 Netflix documentary called Skywalkers, a love story. This is NPR News from Washington.
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