>> Live from NPR news, I'm trial Snyder.
For a castors are warning about that heat wave that has much of the central and eastern
“U.S. and its grip, they say little to no relief is in sight.”
Megan Baroski is a meteorologist for the Florida Public Radio Emergency Network. >> It's all tied to a dome of high pressure that's building over the eastern half of the United States and that air is sinking and as it sinks, it warms and so also with the sinking air, our warm air is going to be trapped at the surface. It's got nowhere to go and so we experience those very warm temperatures
at the surface of the Earth. >> The National Weather Service says the heat wave will be focused on the eastern U.S. through the independent stay weekend with peak fields like temperatures up to 115 degrees. Federal grand jury has indicted a man accused of banalizing the reflecting pool in Washington, D.C. in Piero Stowe Hernandez reports a felony destruction of property charge carries a potential
sentence of up to 10 years in prison. >> U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, Janine Piero says David Hurn allegedly pulled up two square feet of sealant from the bottom of the reflecting pool. Piero says witnesses included a park service worker who told her and to stop.
“>> Hurn reacted by shouting at that park's employee saying that she cared too much.”
>> About the reflecting pool.
>> The Trump administration has spent around $14 million to renovate the pool ahead of America's
250th anniversary, but the project has run into problems, including an algae bloom that's turned to the water green. Attorneys for Hurn say their client is innocent and that the indictment quote reflects the administration's effort to shift blame for their own failures. Hurn is a former U.S. Olympian who competed in canoeing.
Joe Hernandez and PR news on the economy. The U.S. job market was more fizzled than sizzle last month. And Piero Scott Horsley reports on the latest snapshot from the Labor Department. >> U.S. employers added just 57,000 jobs in June. A mark down shift from the two previous month,
revised figures also showed that hiring an April and May was weaker than initially reported. Health care and construction companies continue to add jobs at a modest base last month, but restaurants and retailers cut workers.
“The unemployment rate inch down, but only because hundreds of thousands of people stopped looking”
for work.
Average wages in June were up 3.5 percent from a year ago, but that's not enough to keep
pace with stubborn inflation. The weaker than expected jobs report may make the Federal Reserve more cautious about raising interest rates as it tries to bring prices under control. Scott Horsley and PR news Washington. >> Friday has been declared a day of mourning in Ukraine's capital after Russia launched
hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles that keep early Thursday. Officials say at least 27 people were killed and scores more wounded. And you're listening to NPR news. Louisiana attorney general Liz Murrell has been indicted by a grand jury in New Orleans. The indictment charges Murrow with intimidation and malfeasance.
Murrell is a Republican. She is accused of threatening the jobs of New Orleans leaders who push back against a GOP lead over a hollow local courts. The overall kept a wrongfully convicted man from taking office to the elected post as the Orleans parish criminal court clerk.
Murrell says she has filed an emergency stay with Louisiana Supreme Court. And Governor Jeff Landry says he's ordered state police to investigate the grand jury for alleged impropriities. The outright website info wars undergoing a major rebrand in PR's collievellman reports a satirical outlet the onion is launching the controversy,
is relaunching the controversial brand as a parody. >> The new info wars video streaming site aims to spoof previous owner Alex Jones' unfounded claims, harassment of crime victims and supplement sales. The onion bought info wars' assets at auction in 2024 after Jones declared bankruptcy. A superior court had ordered the conspiracy theorist to pay the families of the victims of the
2012 Sandy Hook's school shooting more than $1 billion for falsely calling the shooting a hoax. Jones has yet to pay any of that. The onion CEO Ben Collins says his first goal is to share $100,000 from merchandise sales with the families.
>> Long term. We're going to turn this really, really bad website into a really good one and give people some hope that maybe funny things can still happen. >> The onion's legal battle with info wars is ongoing. Jones' lawyers did not respond to NPR's request for comment.
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