Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Kristen Wright.
President Trump rang the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ from
the Oval Office this morning. "So ring the bell, Mr. President." NPR Scott Horsley reports.
“President Trump symbolically rang the opening bell for the stock market from the White House,”
the event was designed to promote the new Trump accounts that encouraged young people to invest. Saudi Arabia, another major oil exporters, promised to increase pumping by nearly 200,000 barrels a day next month, putting more downward pressure on prices. That would be the fifth consecutive production increase, though not all that oil is actually making it to market due to ongoing tension in the straight-of-four moves.
Retail gasoline prices have also been fallen, triple-ase of the average price of regular gas is now $3.79 a gallon.
That's about 40 cents less than a month ago, but still about 80 cents higher than when
the U.S. launched its war with Iran. Scott Horsley, in Parenthood, was Washington. Another Russian attack targeting Ukraine's capital with missiles and drones, as killed at least 18 people and injured more than 60. NPR's Joanna Kikis's reports from Kiv, the strikes come as NATO allies get ready to meet
this week in Turkey with Ukraine top on the agenda.
“The sounds of missiles and explosions could be heard from NPR's key bureau for several”
hours overnight. Ukraine's Air Force said Russia launched nearly 70 missiles and more than 350 attack drones. Ukrainian air defense shot down most of the drones, but lacks western supplied interceptors to destroy the missiles. Several missiles hit high-rise apartment buildings.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is pleading for western allies to send anti-missile air defense supplies. Zelensky is set to meet with President Trump at the NATO summit in Ankara, which starts tomorrow. Russian missiles killed more than 30 people in an attack on Kiv last week.
Joanna Kikis's NPR news, Kiv. President Trump is heading to Turkey for the NATO summit later today.
France is in the midst of its third heat wave since the spring, and with summer barely
underway. NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports the heat has set off for us fires in the south. Fires raging in the Piranha Oriental region have forced thousands of evacuations. The blazes have also pushed organizers to divert the third stage of the tour to France Monday.
In Paris, temperatures are expected to reach the mid-90s this week, where the large majority of buildings and homes do not have air conditioning. France had its hottest June on record this year, and recorded some 2000 excess deaths caused by the extreme heat. Scientists say Europe is heating faster than any other continent, partly due to melting glaciers,
and the changing atmospheric and ocean currents surrounding the continent, Eleanor Beardsley and Piano's Paris. This is NPR news, some people in Colorado had to evacuate their homes this holiday weekend as a wildfire has grown into one of the largest in-state history. Colorado Public Radio's Kevin Bady reports on efforts to help residents.
The VFW has a slogan, honor the contract, meaning don't send troops to war and then cut their benefits. Similarly, that slogan has been available on t-shirts, showing troops facing a firing squad, labeled bureaucrats and the media. House Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Mike Bost called the image in flammatory and
dangerous. The VFW has campaigned against a Republican proposal to pass veterans' benefit reforms, but pay for it by reducing future VA disability payments.
“Republicans say it's the only way to get the popular reforms into law.”
Democrats and several veteran service organizations say the benefits reforms can be funded from the Pentagon instead. They oppose any reductions in veterans' disability ratings. Quillorents and PR news. People in Guam and the surrounding northern Mariana Islands are assessing the damage from
super-typhooned Bobby. The eye of the category five storm passed over the island of Rota with 180 mile per hour winds and brought 35 foot surf and flash floods on Guam more than 1,000 people stayed in emergency shelters. The super-typhoon knocked out power across much of the U.S. territory.
This is NPR News. For decades, Chicago has dominated Illinois politics, now rule residents say they're fed up. There comes a time of reckoning and we're getting very close. On this Sunday's story, why succession is brewing in the land of Lincoln.
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