Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.
Three confirmation hearings took place on Capitol Hill today, President Trump's nominee
“to be the director of the CDC, Dr. Eric Herschwarz struggle today to convince senators”
she'd stand up to host Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Republican Senator Bill Cassidy questioned whether she'd be able to act independently from political appointees for the good of the people. Will you have the ability and the firmness to stand up to that political meddling, to say no, that's wrong, and this is right.
Chairman, you have my assurances that I will continue to lead by my integrity.
I will never compromise on the science.
I will always, always have the public's health in mind. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanch also confronted skeptical questions today over the creation of a fun to compensate allies of President Trump and the tax audit immunity deal for Trump and his family. Meanwhile, Trump's nominee to head the U.S. intelligence community as Jay Clayton, currently
the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. At his confirmation hearing today, Democrats repeatedly grilled him on the President's
“claim of fraud in the 2020 presidential election, as NPR's Greg Myri reports.”
Several Democratic senators asked Jay Clayton the nominee for Director of National Intelligence who won the 2020 election. Clayton said Joe Biden was certified as President, but didn't say outright that Biden won. The tone escalated as George's John Ossoff pressed Clayton. Who won?
I think I have the question. We can keep doing this. Well, we're going to keep doing it because you're not being honest and forthright. That's right. I'm not going to engage in the theater.
Republicans control the intelligence committee and can send Clayton's nomination to the false Senate without any Democratic support. A vote is expected next week. Greg Myri, NPR News, Washington. New York City mayor, Zoron Mondani, says he'll expand special education programs for
preschoolers across the country's largest public school system.
And here's Janaki Mitha reports, part of more than $67 million in new spending on special
ed. The program is part of Mayor Mimdani's effort to address longstanding gaps in early childhood education. The move comes as the U.S. Department of Education works to dismantle itself and reshape special education oversight at the federal level.
The city's public schools are in the process of hiring hundreds of staffers. Among other things, they would help speed up the delay family's face in getting evaluations for their children. There's a focus on expanding services for students with autism in preschool. As a number of kids with that diagnosis continues to increase across the country, the program
will launch this fall in 14 of the 32 community school districts in the city. Janaki Mitha and Pierre News. Wall Street higher by the closing bell, the Dow up 150. You're listening to NPR News. Argentina has won the Men's World Cup Soccer's last semi-final game today against England
21, meaning Argentina will now play Spain in the final on Sunday. Wyoming's first measles outbreak this year is inside Grand Teton National Park. Health officials say it's spreading undetected in the popular summer tourist hub from K-H-O-L and Wyoming Sophia Boyd, Flegal, has more. The outbreak started in June in dorms for employees of one of the national park's
vendors. It's now spread to some who haven't been around those employees. That means the highly contagious disease has likely spread to other tourists and they've taken it out of state and internationally. Here's Teton County Public Health Director Dr. Travis Rodel.
If I were to like design the worst possible measles outbreak scenario, it would have some components in common with what we're dealing with. State Public Health officials in the National Park Service are working to identify cases of trace contacts and quarantine the sick. The county now recommends babies and young children in the area get vaccinated early.
For NPR News, I'm Sophia Boyd Flegal in Jackson. wholesale inflation fell from May to June on plunging energy prices, but intensifying hostilities with Iran are clouding the outlook. The Labor Department says it's produced surprise index which captures inflation before it reaches consumers.
After three tenths of a percent from May compared to a year earlier, it's up to 5.5 percent
down from six percent increase the month before. You're listening to NPR News. Everyone wants to know if AI is conscious, but consciousness is really hard to define. It's the experience we're having right now.
“What it is like to eat chocolate or to look at the blue sky?”
So how do we know who or what is conscious? Check out the new way scientists are finding to measure the elusive phenomenon on short
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