Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor, Johnston.
The death toll in the latest Russian strikes on Keev has climbed to 30 as rescue workers
if through the remains of an apartment building destroyed in the missile strike. NPR's Joanna Geckiss' reports that Ukraine is running low on air defense supplies that intercept missiles. Ukraine has already developed interceptors that target Russian drones, but it relies on Western allies to supply anti-balistic air defense that targets Russian missiles.
In his evening video address, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said Ukraine wants licenses to produce US-designed Patriot air defense missiles.
“If NATO still means something to the allies, he says, "You must have its own capacity”
to defend itself from all types of threats, including Russian ballistic missiles."
Zelensky says that lives might have been saved in Thursday's attack if Western allies
had delivered promised air defense missiles on time. Joanna Keckiss and PR News, Keev. A dangerous heat wave is gripping many parts of the United States with a massive heat dome keeping temperatures high across much of the eastern half of the country. Ashley Ward is the director of Duke University's Heat Policy Innovation Hub.
She says it's time to rethink where extreme heat can strike. I think we need to stop thinking about extreme heat as a problem only for the desert southwest. I mean, as this event shows us, people in the Midwest and the Southeast and Northeast, they also are experiencing heat, but in addition to humidity, warmer nights, housing, infrastructure that perhaps is not prepared.
“You know, lots of people don't have air conditioning.”
Health experts say that means more communities need to prepare for dangerous heat, even places where extreme temperatures were once considered rare. A federal grand jury has indicted a man accused of vandalizing the reflecting pool in Washington, D.C., and PR's Joe Hernandez reports the felony destruction of property charge carries a potential sentence of up to 10 years in prison.
Joe has a attorney for the District of Columbia, Janine Piero says David Huron 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 Huron to stop.
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 Huron say their client is innocent and that the indictment quote reflects
“the administration's effort to shift blame for their own failures.”
Huron is a former U.S. Olympian who competed in canoeing, Joe Hernandez and PR news. This is NPR. A 250-year-old copy of the Declaration of Independence is on display in Cincinnati for a limited time until August. Ten a wine gardener, a member station, WVX, who reports the document is not only rare, but rarely
seen. Considered the founding document of the United States on July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence announcing the 13 colonies free from Great Britain. New York lawmakers ordered 500 copies known as "Holt Broadside Printings." This copy has only been out of the Cincinnati Museum Center's climate-controlled vault once
before, during a 2015 exhibit. Here's Collections Technology Manager and Cling. This one is actually older than the iconic one that people think of, or if you go to the National Archives, the original one is all faded, and all the signatures are all very faded. But this one is actually before that one.
Only four other "Holt Broadside Printings" are known to still exist. For NPR News, I'm Tiana Wangartner and Cincinnati. The U.S. is moving on in the World Cup after a two-nil win over Bosnia, Herzegovina. The win sends the Americans into the round of 16, where the Faze Belgium on Monday night. Several other big names are also through, including Portugal, Spain, Brazil, France, and England.
More round of 32 matches are still on the schedule today, as the field continues to narrow, the tournament now shifts toward a busy holiday weekend of knockout games. I'm Mr. Johnston and PR News in Washington. This week on Shore Wave, 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 help. This week on Shore Wave and PR Science podcast, listen daily on the NPR app or wherever
