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A dangerous heat wave is gripping much of the central and eastern U.S. ahead of the holiday
“weekend, but even with the heat, millions of Americans are expected to gather for traditional”
Fourth of July cookouts. NPR Scott Horsley reports the American Farm Bureau Federation says that "Conspirer Barbeque's this summer is higher than last year."
Beef prices are up more than 12 percent from this time last year, drought-stricken ranchers
have been thinning their herds and the supply of beef cattle is at a 75-year low. The price of a store-bought tomato to top that burger is going up even faster, since food economists Robin Wenzelbe of Wells Fargo. "We get about 90 percent of our tomatoes from Mexico, there were some adverse growing conditions in practice supply.
We think we will see some relief as the growing season progresses and farmers take advantage of planting more of these vegetables." For cookout bargain hunters, pork prices are up only slightly from a year ago, and chicken prices are actually down a bit. Scott Horsley and Piano's Washington.
"Three public and national committee has filed new lawsuits, challenging the voting rights
“of some U.S. citizens who cast ballots from outside of the country, and P.R.'s Hansi”
low-long reports." Colorado, Nebraska, and Nevada, among the three dozen states that allow voting by U.S. citizens
who are born abroad, and have never lived in the United States.
As sometimes because their U.S. citizen parents are legal guardians served abroad in the U.S. military. Laws in those states allow overseas non-resident voters to register if a parent last lived or was signed up to vote there before leaving the country. The Republican National Committee is now arguing those laws violate their state's
constitutions. Counting those voters' ballots, the RNC claims, will disproportionately harm Republican candidates. The RNC recently won a similar lawsuit North Carolina. Looking efforts to restrict voting by U.S. citizens living abroad began in 2024, data showed this voting population is becoming less military and more civilian.
On Zila Wong and Piano's. Clinical trials for two experimental Ebola treatments are underway in the Democratic Republic
“of Congo, and P.R.'s Jonathan Lambert reports the latest outbreak has killed more than”
430 people. Researchers are trying to see if two drugs, both separately and in combination, can boost an Ebola patient's chances at survival. One of them is Remdesivir, a more general antiviral drug that was used to treat COVID-19 patients during the pandemic.
The other is a monoclonal antibody called MBP134. It was designed based on antibodies from an Ebola patient from a previous outbreak. So far, only one clinic in DRCS participating in the trial. But health officials say they're planning to expand to more sites. Researchers involved in the trial say they may need to enroll up to a thousand participants.
Which could mean that results won't be available until next year. Jonathan Lambert and PR News. This is NPR. Kate Verde is facing raining champions, Argentina, and the world cup today. The small African island nations surprised everyone by making it to the world cup for the
first time ever, and then qualifying for the knockout round.
The losing team will go home. NPR's Jasmine Guards reports from Miami where the game is being played. Kate Verde is a smallest country to ever make it this far. Guy did impart by Volzinha, an extraordinary goalie. It's a large part thanks to him that Kate Verde has managed to tie every game so far in
the cup. But they've only scored two goals. Argentina, on the other hand, is led by one of the best players in the world. No, and at a messy. If Kate Verde's weak spot is attack, Argentina says what fans call it, messy up and then, yeah.
Let's see dependency problem. When you have one of the best players in the world, you inevitably rely on him a lot. He's already scored six times in this world cup, and now he holds the all-time record for most world cup goals. 19.
Jasmine Guards, and PR News, Miami. Andatory evacuation orders are in place as a wildfire in southern Colorado, keeps growing in size. The blazes burn nearly 48,000 acres and damaged or destroyed more than 150 structures. It's the largest fire burning in the state and a 0% contained. Fire crews say drive vegetation, low humidity, and strong winds are fueling the flames.
Cruiser also battling and number of other large wildfires across the west as hot dry conditions continue. I'm Windsor Jonsten and PR News in Washington. This week on Shorewave, working from home is popular, no commute, sweatpants, people who do it say makes them happier.
And the data suggests they're probably wrong about that on average at least. We unpack a new study about the social isolation of remote work, and what it means for your health. This week on Shorewave and PR Science podcast, listen daily on the NPR app or wherever you
