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NPR Scott Horsley reports U.S. employers added just 57,000 jobs in June, less than half as many as the month before.
“After several months of relatively strong job growth, the pace of hiring slowed in”
June. Healthcare continued to add workers, but not in great numbers, and leisure and hospitality saw a net loss of jobs. NPR's figures also show that hiring was weaker than initially reported in April and May, with a combined downgrade of 74,000 jobs, the unemployment rate dipped last month to 4.2%,
but only because more than 700,000 people dropped out of the workforce. For people who are working, average wages were up 3.5% from a year ago, but that's likely not enough to keep pace with inflation. Prices have been climbing at an annual rate of more than 4%. Scott Horsley, NPR News, Washington.
In Venezuela, people are still searching for survivors of last week's back-to-back earthquakes. The death toll is nearly 2300 people. As John Otis reports, much of the search work has fallen to international rescue teams.
“The coastal town of Caravayeta, members of the Los Angeles County Fire Department,”
are searching for three girls trapped in a collapsed building. It's all because all of the dust in the dirt just keeps going into the hole. LA Firefighter, Michael Tofer, says, "They've heard signs of life." "What we're hearing are faint, knocking, tapping. The last confirmation we had was about an hour ago."
A week after the Twin Quakes, the odds are against them. However, this week, another team from Jordan rescued a two-year-old boy who is now recovering in a Venezuelan hospital. For MPR News, I'm John Otis in Caravayeta, Venezuela. The U.S. men's World Cup soccer team has advanced to the next round by beating Bosnia
Herzegov in a last night, two-nil, and Piersbecki Sullivan says the U.S. worked to earn that victory. The U.S. had to work and work and work to get that first goal to go up 1-0 just before half-time. And then, their striker, Philaren Balligan, who is this like the newest big star of this
team, made this disastrous mistake in the second half he got his legs tangled up with the Bosnia defender. He stepped on the defender's ankle, it went to a video review, and it was deemed a red card. Bosnia was, of course, only down one, anything could have happened.
And they pulled it off for the biggest win for the U.S. men's national team in a good long time. And Piersbecki Sullivan reporting. Two other teams advanced in World Cup play yesterday, England, which beat Congo and Belgium, which defeated Senegal.
The National Weather Service says nearly 143 million people are under extreme heat warnings
today from Eastern Kansas, South to Mississippi, and North to New England. Many regions will feel like it's 100 degrees or hotter. This is NPR. Officials in Qatar say they hosted separate meetings with on-voys from the U.S. and Iran. The U.S. and Iranian on-voys did not hold direct talks themselves.
Qatar says there was positive progress in the discussions and says the next meeting will come quickly. The maker of computer memory chips, Micron technology, is offering a major donation to a new tax-advantaged savings program. These are known as Trump accounts for children, and Piers John Ruich reports.
Micron is committing $250 million to the Trump accounts in honor of the United States 250th anniversary. It says it's the largest corporate commitment of its kind and is expected to support
up to 1 million children.
Trump accounts were created as part of last year's spending package, dubbed a one-big beautiful bill, and are intended to jump start early savings. The Micron money will match contributions of up to $1,000 by its employees, and provide one-time payments to accounts and counties where it operates. On social media, Trump called the pledge by Micron an incredible gesture.
Micron's business has been booming lately as demand for memory chips is skyrocketing because of heavy investment in AI-related data centers, shares in the Idaho-based company are up more than 700 percent over the past 12 months. Amman and a woman who climbed to the top of the spire at the Empire State Building in New York City yesterday are to appear in court that couple, Angelina Nicolao, and Ivan
Kutznetzop have been held in jail since their dare-devil feet yesterday. They unfurled a banner and Kutznetzop appeared to propose to Nicolao. This is NPR.
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