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some kind of heat warning or advisory for nearly 180 million people today.
“That's more than half of the U.S. People face dangerous record-breaking heat that is expected”
to extend into the holiday weekend, and PR's Brian Mann has more from New York." The National Weather Service has high heat and humidity will push the heat index into troubled digits and triggers storms. Here in New York City officials have opened hundreds of cooling centers, and launched a fleet of cooling vans and buses that will patrol looking for vulnerable people, mayors are on Mamdanni urge people to check on neighbors.
"We know that on an annual basis we lose about 500 new yorkers due to heat-related illness, however we are speaking about what could be the hottest day and more than a decade." The dangerously hot weather comes as millions of people are traveling and celebrating the Fourth of July, and watching World Cup soccer matches. Officials say people should prepare by bringing water, sting, hydrated, and limiting physical activity.
Brian Mann and PR News, New York. This week, President Trump announced that the Republican Party will hold its mid-term convention the September in Dallas. Texas voters are just weeks away from casting balance for several
“statewide elections. From the Texas Newsroom, Blaise Gany reports.”
Texas has been a red state for all of the 21st century, but polls show the U.S. Senate race at a gridlock between Democrat James Taloreco and Republican Ken Paxton. John Taylor is the Department Chair of Political Science at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He believes that contest is playing a big part in why Trump wants to bring the Republican Party to the state.
"They've seen the public polls out there showing Taloreco with the slight lead or tie and such like that. My guess they're internal polling is scaring them." Taylor says the move is a last-ditch effort by Republicans to try and swing things in their favor ahead of a significant mid-term election. I'm Blaise Gany in Austin."
The U.S. Justice Department says it is shifting his focus to foreign visitors who are suspected of traveling to the U.S. to give birth. And beer's Jacqueline Diaz reports the announcement comes after the U.S. Supreme Court
“struck down President Trump's attempt to "end birthright citizenship."”
The U.S. Justice Department wants its prosecutors to go after people taking part in something called birth tourism. In the U.S., that means when a foreign national comes into the country, just to give birth and to get their child American citizenship. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is setting his sights on birth tourism operations.
"It's an only industry and it will continue giving its resources in yesterday." The Justice Department wants to go after those people coming to the U.S. under "false pretenses." Pregnant women and those involved in their travel could face charges like visa fraud or money laundering. Jacqueline Diaz and PR News
You're listening to NPR News from Washington. The Labor Department says job growth slowed down a lot last month about 57,000 new jobs were created in June. That's a lot less than the number of jobs created in the two prior months. The Labor Department also revised its job reports for April and May.
It's as hiring at that time was weaker than first reported.
Big tech company Google has lost its appeal against a record fine imposed by the European Union. It's over anti-trust behavior. Europe's highest court reaffirmed the decision that Google and its parent company Alphabet have abused their dominant position in the market.
Terry Schultz has more. The Luxembourg-based court of justice of the EU has sided with European Commission regulators who accused the internet giant of anti-competitive behavior for forcing phone manufacturers to pre-install Google features on Android devices. Google says it has addressed the EU concerns by allowing Android users to switch between
search engines and browsers, but the court ruled this was not a sufficient remedy. Google was initially fined around $5 billion when the original ruling came down eight years ago, a record amount that was reduced to around $4.7 billion by a lower court following the company's challenge of the amount. It then appealed the entire decision, the case that has now lost, with no further options.
For MPR News, I'm Terry Schultz and Brussels. Officials in Qatar say they hosted separate meetings with envoys from the US and Iran this week. The Iranian Envoy's did not hold direct talks themselves, Qatar says the next meeting will be scheduled very quickly.
I'm Corva Coleman, MPR News.
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