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A heat wave is impacting many parts of the United States this July 4th, and PR Sydney
“Lupkin reports hospitals are preparing for an increase in visits to emergency rooms.”
In this past week, Dr. Ryan Stanton has seen two golfers, two gardeners, an airport worker, and a couple of construction workers in his Lexington Kentucky ER with heat-related illness. It's been a little bit of everybody, and I know everybody wants to get out there and enjoy this time of year, but boy, if it were a dry heat, then maybe a little bit better, but it is not in most of the country, it is a wet human blanket.
Stanton is the president elect of the American College of Emergency Physicians. He says humidity makes it harder for our bodies to handle the heat. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, you can protect yourself by staying in air conditioning as much as possible and drinking plenty of fluids. If someone around you is experiencing severe overheating, called heat stroke, call 911.
Sydney Lupkin and PR News.
Ukraine launched another wave of drone attacks against Russia overnight.
This is Moscow and Kiev offered competing claims over whose forces are holding a key Eastern Ukraine in city, and PR's Charles Mains reports. The governor of Russia's former imperial capital of St. Petersburg said city air defenses had fended off a large scale Ukrainian drone attack. Even as you reported damage to the city's main oil terminal and a nearby port.
Russia's defense ministry said Ukraine fired nearly 400 drones into some 18 regions of Russia, and it's occupied territories in all. Meanwhile, on the front lines, Russia's top brass and foreign president Vladimir Putin, its troops that seized the Eastern Ukrainian city of Constantine of Cup. And outposts long sought by the Kremlin and its quest to take the entirety of Ukraine's Eastern
Donbass region. Yet Zelensky later called that claim, a Russian lie, and said Ukrainian forces remain in the city. Charles Mains and PR News. Moscow.
“It was a short week on Wall Street ahead of the long, how about a weekend?”
NPR's Scott Horsley reports.
Speaking of gathering essential bankers in Portugal Wednesday,
Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Wars renewed his pledge to bring inflation under control. After a downbeat jobs report on Thursday, investors are less concerned. The Fed will raise interest rates when policy makers meet later this month. The report showed U.S. employers had at just 57,000 jobs in June, and job gains for April and May were also revised lower.
The unemployment rate fell last month, but only because more than 700,000 people dropped out of the workforce. For the week, the S&P 500 in next climb, one and three quarters per cent, the Dow rose nearly 2%, and the Nasdaq jumped to 0.1%. Scott Horsley and PR News Washington.
President Trump Friday, pardoned 11 people, including a one-time business partner of former DC lobbyist Jack Abraham, your listing to NPR News from Washington. After months of speculation, Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey are officially married.
“NPR's Vanessa Romo has more on the marriage.”
The pop icon and the Super Bowl winning player, both 36 tied the knot on Friday, in New York after three years of dating. Swift's publicist Tree Pain confirmed the couple wed, telling NPR that the ceremony was officiated by comedian Adam Sandler. Pain added that there were neither bridesmaids nor groomsmen.
Instead, Swift's brother Austin served as Taylor's man of honor, and Kelsey's brother Jason was the best man. Photos of the event have yet to be released, but the singer's publicist says the couple was dressed in Christian-Dior Atkatur, designed by Creative Director Jonathan Anderson. Swift was bejeweled in Cardi-A.
Security around the multi-day event has been intense, so it's unclear if the wedding was charming if a little ghost. But the night before the ceremony, the 20,000-person stadium where the associated press says the wedding took place was bathed in a lavender haze. Vanessa Romo and PR News.
Three people died, seven others were rescued when storms blew through southern Wisconsin causing a boat to capsize on Lake Geneva. The lake is a popular tourist destination for people from the Chicago and Milwaukee area. Stock traders' Monday will have another option when it comes to where to place their
money. The Dallas-based Texas Stock Exchange officially opens this to try to be to competitor to the New York Stock Exchange in the Nasdaq. State leaders say they hope the exchange will help solidify the Dallas areas attempt to become a national financial hub as well as boost the Texas economy.
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