Live from the NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor, Johnston.
The Commerce Department is reporting a modest uptick in retail sales last month.
“Stokes on Wall Street this morning, opened lower, NPR Scott Horsley reports the Dow Jones”
industrial average was down about 23 points in early trading. Retail sales rose by two tenths of one percent last month, spending an auto dealers revved up while online sales got a boost from Amazon's prime day promotion, spending at gas stations, which sharply lower in June, thanks to falling gasoline prices. Gas prices have started climbing again, now the U.S. ceasefire with Iran has unraveled,
triple-aices the average price of regular gas, jumped a nickel-a gallon overnight, the average price of diesel fuels climbed back above $5 a gallon. New applications for unemployment benefits fell last week, 208,000 people applied for jobless aid, that's a 10-week low, and suggested layoffs remain uncommon.
Asian stocks were mostly lower overnight.
Scott Horsley and Pyrenees Washington Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche faced a tough round of questioning during his Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday, and P.R.s. Kerry Johnson reports members of both parties press blanch about his independence and his relationship with President Trump.
“Blanche worked as Trump's personal lawyer for a couple years.”
He defended Trump in cases that involve election interference, classified documents, and Democrats say he's still serving Donald Trump instead of the Constitution. Then, under questioning, Blanche seemed to make a slip of the tongue, here he is being questioned by Republican Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana. Are you in President Trump for him?
I'm his lawyer, was his lawyer, and now I'm the deputy attorney general.
Blanche went on to say he's not a yes man, and that his time defending Trump should not define his long career. This MPR's Kerry Johnson reporting is rarely law makers continue to rush through and number of controversial laws before a scheduled recess this week. Among the new laws passed to bill that guts the power of attorney general.
MPR's Kerry Con reports from Tel Aviv. Revamping the role of Israel's top lawyer has been high on Benjamin Netanyahu's agenda to overhaul the judicial system.
“The newly approved law gives the prime minister more power in the hiring and firing of”
the attorney general, as well as allowing the government to ignore legal rulings. Critics say such legislation removes the guardrails against corruption and strengthens the power of the prime minister. lawmakers also passed a sweeping bill exempting the altar orthodox for military service, and banning prosecution of religious draft Dodgers.
Israel's high court already paused the law ruling it on constitutional. The current can nest its session with its far right majority end this week, lawmakers won't meet again until after national elections this fall, Kerry Con and PR news Tel Aviv. This is NPR News. Smoke for more than 100 wildfires in Canada is spreading across the Midwest and Northeast.
Air quality alerts are in effect from the Great Lakes to New England with pollution reaching unhealthy levels in some areas. With a case has settled over New York City and could move farther into the Mid-Atlantic today, for Caster say the smoke could begin clearing by Friday. Another large data center project facing significant criticism is now being scaled back.
Oracle says it will reduce the environmental impact of its massive project Jupiter development in rural New Mexico. Jenny Kinsey of Member Station, Ka and W has more. Environmental groups have voiced opposition to the 1,400 acre sites since it was introduced last year.
One point of contention increased air pollution from the site that will house open AI known for chat GPT. Oracle's head of global cloud infrastructure, Julia Robinson says public concern led the company to pivot away from piping in natural gas, and to instead use fuel cell technology that emits less pollution.
The point is we're listening now and we've shifted our approach significantly. Oracle filed a new permit with the state that now describes the site as a "minor source" of emissions, but the myriad proposed revisions do not satisfy the concerns of some environmental groups that say the site will still bring significantly more carbon emissions to the region for NBR News.
I'm Jenny Kinsey and Albuquerque. I'm Windsor Johnston and PR News in Washington. The last time Antonio May's senior heard from his son, it was in a note the 16 year old left in the family's garage. He told me he was going to make me cry.
Antonio Junior left home to join a protest in Seattle, a week later he was shot and killed there. I need some a ref made, just as for my son.
