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Fourth of July celebrations are getting underway in cities and towns across the country
“today, but a dangerous heat wave is forcing schedule changes prompting some cancellations”
and raising concerns about heat-related illnesses and PR's Rob Man, Brian Man reports. For a lot of Americans, like eight-year-old Logan Lungsworth from New Jersey, this holiday is just about having fun. How I'm going to be celebrating the Fourth of July is, I'm going to like some firecrackers and stuff like that, and we also saw the statue of Liberty.
But people in much of the country are facing dangerous heat. An independent state parade scheduled for today in Washington DC was canceled. Many events have been rescheduled to start later to avoid the hottest part of the day. Fireworks have been banned in parts of the country because of high-wild fire risk. Officials are warning the public to take lots of precautions, limit your time outdoors, bring
water, and stay in the shade whenever you can. Brian Man and PR News, New York. Republican lawmakers defunded some health care providers that offer abortion with the one-big, beautiful bill-lack.
“His NPR Salinas Simmons' Duffins reports that provision only lasted a year and the year is”
now over. Under the provision, when patients enrolled in Medicaid came to plan parenthood and several other organizations for cancer screenings and annual exams, etc, Medicaid would not reimburse them for those visits. It's been a long-time goal of anti-abortion rights activists, and it was enacted for the
first-time last July 4th, but only for a year because of Senate rules.
Which means that now, those organizations can bill-medicated for non-abortion services again. There was pressure on congressional Republicans from anti-abortion groups to extend the defunded provision, but with slim majorities and many other priorities, it didn't happen before Congress won on recess. At the World Cup, Egypt won a penalty shootout to beat Australia, given the team notice
the ferros it's first ever knockout match victory. Celebrations were erupted across the Middle East, united the Arab world, and PR's Honour's Baba reports. From the cafe's Ulbeewood and Damascus, to the public squares of Saudi Arabia, grounds wave the Egyptian flags as if victory were their own.
Across Egypt itself, even withings ground to a halt as plides, glooms and grouts crowded around screens for the penalty kicks. And the neighbouring Gaza, the win was celebrated wholeheartedly too. The buzz of Israeli drones over Gaza City was drowned out by thousands of ephoric Palestinians and kids waving Egyptian flags.
In the pitch in Dallas, Egypt's coach, Hassan Middward the connection. He reads the large Palestinian flag after the final whistle and say, "This one is for Egyptians and Palestinians alike," and a small and famous Gaza. This is NPR. Authorities in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin say three people died, several others were rescued when
about capsized on the popular lake near the Wisconsin Illinois border. The incident took place during a series of heavy storms on Friday.
The Food and Drug Administration has expanded the approval of the first gene-editing treatment
for sickle cell disease to younger children, and PR's Rob Stein has the story. The FDA approved the treatment which uses the CRISPR gene editing technique for children as young as two years old. Previously, the treatment called "Castjewi" had only been available for adults and kids starting at age 12.
There are tax pharmaceuticals which makes "Castjewi" since the approval makes more than 5,500 kids eligible for the treatment in the U.S. Sickle cell disease is an inherited blood disorder that causes devastating pain attacks and eventually life-threatening complications.
“Castjewi works by editing a gene that controls the production of a crucial blood protein.”
The FDA also expanded approval of the treatment to younger children suffering from a related blood disorder known as Beta Thalcemia, Rob Stein, and Pyrenees. The National Transportation Safety Board preliminary report on the June 14th Missouri skydiving crash that killed 11 people showed no major safety failures in the plane that could account for the crash.
The report found to evidence of a pre-impact mechanical or engine malfunction that would have brought the plane down, the full report may take a year. This is NPR News. What happens if we refund tariffs? Why are grocery so expensive?
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