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The big jobs report for June is out, and PR has got horsely with details.
“We always want to caution against reading too much into a single month's report, but”
the numbers released by the Labor Department this morning are not pretty. U.S. employers added just 57,000 jobs last month. That's less than half the number they added in each of the two previous months, even though it turned out hiring an April in May was also significantly weaker than initially reported. That's NPR has got horsely reporting the unemployment rate meanwhile ticked down to 4.2%.
The Employment Report indicates a job market may be slowing, but has still been fairly solid in recent months, and comes as the Federal Reserve under recent Cherokeeven wars. She is set to hold a policy meeting later this month. The Justice Department is going after state gun laws that it calls "unconstitutional"
NPR's Jacqueline Diaz reports on two lawsuits that challenge gun bands in California and in Virginia. In California, a newly enacted law banned dealers from selling certain glock and glock-style pistols. In Virginia, state lawmakers recently banned the purchase and sale of semi-automatic rifles.
In these two lawsuits, the Justice Department cites recent decisions from the Supreme Court that struck down restrictions on gun owners, including one decision from just a few days ago.
The suits also say both states laws violate the Second Amendment.
The DOJ is asking two federal judges to put a stop to these bands. Jacqueline Diaz and PR News It has been more than a week in the death toll from Venezuela's twin earthquakes is nearing 2300, however rescuers are still finding survivors. This morning in the town of La Guida, a crew pulled a 43-year-old security guard alive from
the rubble. Adnan al Betoquil Flores had been trapped in a collapsed basement of the Galleria S. Blaya Grande Shopping Center.
“A massive Russian drone and missile attack on Ukraine's capital key, has killed at least 21”
people in injured another 90, and PR's Joanne Kekes' reports. Russia says these attacks are in retaliation for Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil infrastructure.
The Ukrainian Air Force said it's shot down most of the Russian drones, but that a third
of the missiles got through, riding on social media, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, said 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 cave 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. U.S. lead talks to end Russia's war on Ukraine have stalled as the Trump administration has focused on the Iran war. Joanne Kekes' NPR news cave. This is NPR.
Tens of millions of people across the Central and Eastern U.S. are in the most dangerous stretch of a heat wave projected to last through independent state. Today, the nation's capital was forecast to head back into triple digit territory toward 105 degrees, and the humidity won't help matters very much at night. The National Weather Service says some places could feel peak heat indices of up to 115 degrees.
Scientists say they have taken a big step toward creating a fully functional synthetic cell NPR's Rob Stein with more. Researchers at the University of Minnesota said they made their cell from scratch in their laboratory. Other scientists have previously engineered cell-like structures, but the Minnesota researchers
“say their creation dubbed the "spud cell" is the first that can perform some of the key functions”
of living cells. Those include the ability to feed, grow, divide, and spontaneously develop new capabilities. Much more work is needed, but the researchers say their cells could someday have many important uses, including helping produce new medicines. Critics, however, were that synthetic cells could pose future risks, robstein and pure news.
Mortgage by a Freddie Mac reports that the average long-term mortgage rate on a 30-year
loan has fallen to its lowest level in seven weeks at 6.43 percent.
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