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Republicans, South Carolina Governor, Henry McMaster's expected to soon announce who he's
“chosen to serve the rest of Senator Lindsey Graham's term through early January.”
Graham died unexpectedly Saturday night from what officials say was likely a tear in his aorta. He was 71, President Trump posted on true social this morning that he recommends McMaster, picked Graham's sister, Darling Graham Norton, to serve as interim senator. Lindsey Graham adopted his younger sister after their parents both died.
The special Republican primary will be held in August and South Carolina to select a candidate to then run for the seat permanently in November.
As the U.S. any Ron exchange fire for a third straight weekend, President Trump was
threatening to block Iran's ships from moving through major oil shipping route the straight of our mood, and PR said deal, "I'll shout she has a latest." In a post online, President Trump said that the U.S. would be, quote, "reinstating a blockade on Iranian ships or customers from entering or leaving the straight of our moods." He said that the U.S. will now be known as, quote, "the guardian of the horn moves straight."
Trump said that other countries will be able to move through the waterway, but that
“the U.S. would charge a 20% toll on cargo.”
He said the toll was the price to pay for providing security and safety for this "volatile section of the world." Up until now, the U.S. has been against any tolls or fees being enforced on ships moving through the straight. Iranian leaders said Iran controls the straight of the horn moves.
He'd deal, "I'll shout she and PR news, Istanbul." New research finds more people in the U.S. are using credit or dipping into their savings to pay for groceries, and PR's Jennifer Ludden has more. More than a quarter of working-age adults who used a credit card for food did not repay the full amount, that's according to new research by the Urban Institute Think Tank, which
finds an uptake in such financial stress since 2023. Nearly 20% said they'd tapped long-term savings not meant for daily expenses to pay for groceries, a third who used by now pay later, missed a payment in the last year. The survey was done in December before the Iran war sent gas prices up and further strained many people's budgets.
“Over the past year, expanded work requirements for federal food aid have also taken hold, and”
enrollment in that program has dropped by several million people.
Jennifer Ludden and peer news, Washington. The U.K. has issued new heat-health warnings as record-high temperatures continue more from NPR's Lourne Frayer. Scientists at two London universities say they've linked more than 2700 deaths to this heat wave in May and June in England and Wales.
As a climate change is making heat waves more intense, frequent and deadly. Most of those deaths were from heart attacks, strokes, or respiratory failure as the body strains to cool itself. Many British homes aren't built to cope either. Air conditioning is uncommon even in schools and most are still in session through late
July. It's NPR. When federal prisoners use, a process for filing a complaint about a problem from bad food
to abuse, the almost never succeed.
That's a conclusion of NPR and the Marshall project, which looked at a database of nearly one million complaints going back 24 years. NPR's Joseph Shapiro has details. Our analysis found prisoners prevail in less than 2% of their grievances, less than 1% when they ask for medical care.
And that doesn't count the many times they're stopped from filing a grievance at all. The other problem is that when prisoners do complain, they often face retaliation from prison staff. The federal bureau prison says it doesn't allow retaliation, but prisoners told us that it's common from going to solitary confinement, losing phone privileges and even being assaulted.
Joseph Shapiro NPR news. A panel created by European Commission President Ursula Von der Lines looking at ways to protect children from the dangers of social media, more from Terry Schultz. Groups findings will be presented in Von der Lines expected to use their opinions to form her own legislative proposal by September.
The Commission Chief has expressed her personal concerns, blaming social media's business models for treating children's attention as a commodity and exploiting addictive design. She's believed to favor an EU-wide ban on access for youth up to age 16. That's Terry Schultz reporting from Brussels. With last check on Wall Street, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 132 points.
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