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round of strikes on Iran after Iran attacked ships in the straight of Hormuz, President
“Trump earlier said the attack signal the end of the ceasefire.”
Meanwhile Trump says there was quote a lot of love in the room at a NATO summit in Turkey. He says they agreed to spend more on U.S. weapons as NPR's Michelle Kalman reports. In a news conference before returning home, President Trump did not repeat his demands to own Greenland and barely mentioned his frustration that some allies opposed the U.S. war in Iran.
Instead, he says he heard a lot of love and respect. They, like the job I'm doing, they said, "We love, we'll sue, we'll love you." He's a grown people saying that, isn't it nice? Maybe I don't know, maybe they're trying to get to me. In a way they did because there was tremendous unity in that room.
It was a big turnaround from earlier in the day when he blasted NATO ally Spain as a quote
"wasted cause." Spain didn't allow the U.S. to use bases to launch war in Iran. Michelle Kalman and PR news the state department. Kentucky Democratic Governor Andy Bashir is calling for Senator Mitch McConnell to update the public on his health amid the former Republican leaders multi-week hospitalization
Karen Zarr with member station WUKY reports. In a letter to McConnell's office, Bashir urged transparency saying a public update would help and speculation and provide information, quote, "direct from the source," adding that continued uncertainty is unfair to both McConnell and the people of Kentucky. When asked last week, if he had spoken to McConnell, Bashir said, "We've received no information,
no updates."
McConnell has not appeared publicly since his June 14th Hospitalization.
“Those some Senate leaders say they have recently talked with him on the phone about key government”
issues. For NPR news, I'm Karen Zarr, in Lexington. Testing from consumer reports finds dozens of rice products contain arsenic, which can be toxic at certain levels and appears Maria Gidoi has more. Arsenic occurs naturally in soil and water, and rice plants seem to soak it up from the environment
more than other grains. Consumer reports found that in 42% of rice products examined, the average levels of arsenic present were high enough that an adult eating just once serving a day over time would have a significantly increased risk for skin cancer, bladder cancer, and type 2 diabetes. Arsenic levels varied greatly by brand and type of rice.
Busmati and sushi rice had the lowest levels while brown rice consistently had higher levels than white rice. Testing also revealed that cooking rice in boiling water for 5 minutes, draining it, and then cooking it in fresh water, reduced the arsenic content by at least half. Maria Gidoi and PR News.
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“ABC is fighting efforts by federal regulators to reopen the question of whether it's popular”
talk show. The view is subject to equal time rules. The rules require giving equal time to competing candidates for public office. The network says the view is a news show and thus exempt from equal time rules. ABC is accusing the Trump administration of trying to curb its free speech in the escalating
dispute. Manufacturing is an industry known for its strict attendance policies, but one factory in Northwest Georgia is using a flexible work to solve staffing needs, and PR's Andrea Xu reports. At one point during COVID, the Roper Corporation, owned by GE Appliances, was hundreds
of workers short. the plant was flooded with orders for ovens and ranges that couldn't be built fast enough. So Tony Gabbert, director of manufacturing operations, told his boss he wanted to try out a staffing firm called my work choice. They would recruit a pool of part-time workers who could choose their shifts on an app.
His boss's response? Tony, you're crazy. For trying that. But today about 450 flexible workers pick up shifts in any given week. On average, they work 24 hours in a week.
They earn less money than full-time employees and have few benefits. Still, many of them say it's worth it for the freedom to work when they want. Andrea Xu and PR news. New Yorkers are slowly being led into a courtened off Manhattan streets after columns buckled and under construction high rise, trickling wide-spread evacuations.
Cruz worked through the night to shore up a massive development at the side of the former headquarters of pharmaceutical giant Pfizer. This is NPR News from Washington. Of all the protests in the summer of 2020, for a moment there, it was Utopia. One took a unique turn.
This is the story of how violence came to occupy an anti-violence occupation in Seattle. Listen to we keep us safe, a new true crime series on the Embedded Podcast from NPR.
