Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi saying, a punishing heat wave is baking towns...
from the central to the eastern US, at least 160 million people affected, record some above
a hundred degrees or being shattered.
“But the brutal heat is opening the door to some side hustles, like renting out a pole?”
Here's NPR Steven Pisaaha. Reagan Clopton and her husband Taylor use the app's swimply to rent a private pole near Birmingham, Alabama during a scorching hot day last summer. I think it's part of the culture now, right? Just like take over someone else's house or pool or for the day or the weekend.
For a fee, that's right. One rental costs them about 380 bucks, that got 30 guests three hours of pool time. The pool's owner says running it out hopes to recover maintenance costs and boosts her income.
So far this year, swimply says there have been 275,000 pool reservations.
Steven Bisaaha and PR News Birmingham 57,000, that's the lower than expected number of jobs. The Labor Department says the US economy gained last month. The unemployment rate came in at 4.2% in June. The Department also reported sharp downward revisions for April and May.
“President Trump is appealing a court ruling the blocks key parts of his executive order to restrict”
voting by mail, and PR's Hansi Lohong reports the court found Trump's directive was unconstitutional. So far, President Trump's order has not directly affected mail and voting. It calls for the US Postal Service to come up with lists of eligible voters and deliver mail and bounce only to people on those lists. USPS is financial support of NVR.
Federal Judging Boston found Trump's directives overstep his authority under the Constitution, which gives power to state legislatures and Congress to set federal election rules. The Trump administration is now appealing the judge's ruling, which applies to the 23 mainly Democratic-led states that challenge Trump's order plus Washington D.C. And there is another legal hurdle facing Trump's order.
A judge in D.C. has blocked mailing rules that USPS proposed in response to the order, and judge found the proposal violated an earlier agreement USPS made to prioritize timely delivery of election mail on Z-Lohong and PR News.
“In Lebanon, backlash is growing over the framework agreement the Lebanese government”
signed with Israel more from Jawat Raskala. The deal makes Israel's permanent withdrawal from the territory that now occupies an Lebanon. Conditional on Hezbollah, they run back to militia at its fighting, being fully disarmed. But Hezbollah has flatly rejected this agreement. Under this deal, the Lebanese army would oversee the disarmament.
But this military is ill-equipped for such a task. Separately, the framework agreement says both Israel and Lebanon sees pursuing accountability through international political bodies and courts. And mechanism Lebanon has relied on in the past. Lebanon's President Josef Hone acknowledged that the deal was imperfect,
but said it was the best Lebanon could do. Shwadraschala and PR News, Beirut. It's NPR. The death toll from Venezuela's twin earthquakes more than a week ago is nearing 2300. Rescuers are still finding survivors, though this morning in the town of Laguida,
a crew pulled a 43-year-old security guard alive from the rubble. He had been trapped in a collapsed basement of the Galleria S. Blaya Grande-Shopping Center, his rescue today, capped a more than 100-hour operation to save his life. The Vatican is confirming a split with a small group of conservative Catholics, who ordained bishops without official permission.
NPR's Jason Deros reports a church has excommunicated members of the sect. The Society of St. Pius, the 10th, is a traditionalist movement that opposes official teachings on interfaith and ecumenical relations. It also promotes the Latin mass. During a ceremony in Switzerland this week, a bishop affiliated with the group consecrated
four men as new bishops without Vatican approval. Now, the church has issued a statement saying the decades long attempts to bring the Society of St. Pius the 10th back into alignment with Catholic teaching have proved vain. Because of that, the Vatican's office of theology has formally excommunicated both clergy and lady who are formal adherents of the group. Jason Deros, NPR News.
The average long-term mortgage rate on a 30-year loan fell to its lowest level in seven weeks at 6.43 percent, and the group Freddie Mac also says borrowing costs on the 15-year loan, which is popular among homeowner seeking to refinance, also fell this week to an average of 5.79 percent. It's NPR News.
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