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The military will begin screening service members over the age of 30 for low testosterone.
Defense Secretary Pete Heggseth announced the initiative this week on social media, NPR's will stone, has the latest. Heggseth says service members will be screened and have the option to pursue testosterone replacement therapy if their levels are low. Yet guidelines from major medical groups do not recommend routine screening for testosterone
unless a man has symptoms. Dr. Jayman Brombada, yourologist at Orlando Health, says research shows testosterone can help mental health, focus, bone health, and muscle mass. "There's lots of benefits, whether I can extrapolate that into people out there in the front lines.
I really can't."
“Brombada says what's key is that you're restoring testosterone to a normal range, not boosting”
it to unnatural levels.
Will stone and B.R. News.
President Trump is set to deliver a speech to the nation tonight, though it's uncertain what he plans to talk about. Trump suggested election security would be part of the message ahead of midterms. He may also talk about the U.S. war with Iran. The White House had announced a new 60-day clock to use military action against Iran without
congressional approval. Will show low-approval ratings on Trump's handling of the war and resulting energy crisis as well as the economy. The annual inflation rate remains above the Fed's 2% target, though it cooled more than expected in June.
Spending at stores and restaurants in June grew only two-tenths of a percent compared to May that's new data from the Commerce Department that shows growth in retail sales slowed
as price is dipped a little.
Here's NPR's Alina Salio.
“In was marked by a tentative ceasefire in the war with Iran, so energy prices fell last”
month and that delivered one of the best inflation reports in a while. Prices actually fell from May to June, and so the new data on retail sales suggests that cooler prices brought cooler spending, sales at gas stations actually declined compared to May, so did spending at grocery stores and pharmacies. Now comparing June to June of last year, spending is up 6.7%.
A lot of it is inflation with people spending more just because things cost more, but the shoppers did seem to splurge a bit on primed day sales, World Cup gear, and perhaps early school supplies, with big jumps at bookstores, sporting good stores, and electronic stores. Alina Salio and Piano's.
Well, the FIFA World Cup final is set, Spain versus Argentina. White House press secretary Caroline Levitt says President Trump will be there. On Friday, the president will travel to New York City to attend a FIFA reception at Trump Tower, followed by his attendance on Sunday at the FIFA World Cup, between Spain and Argentina. MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, will host the biggest match of the International
Soccer Tournament. From Washington, this is NPR News. Texas Governor Greg Abbott says, at least one person has died from the latest storm system that has caused catastrophic flooding in the state, rescuer saved dozens of driver stranded in their vehicles or homes by dangerously high waters.
The region is still recovering from deadly floods last summer that killed 2 dozen children and counselors at Camp Mystic. A report from the National Academies of Science Engineering and Medicine reviews the way scientists can now pinpoint the influence of human cause climate change on specific weather events such as hurricanes or heat waves, NPR's Alejandro Burrunda with details.
“The report's findings could be important for several major climate cases making their”
way through the legal system. The report assesses climate attribution science. In the past decade or so, the rapidly advancing field has gotten much better at figuring out just how much worse or how much more likely bad weather events like hurricanes are because of burning fossil fuels.
Some legal cases hinge on that knowledge. A case from Oregon, for example, is seeking damages for dozens of deaths in a 2021 heat wave that scientists found were intensified by climate change. The case alleges that fossil fuel companies knew their products could worsen the risks. Alejandro Burrunda and Pair News.
Two bookstores, one of which was founded by journalists, are among the latest targets of Hong Kong's crackdown on independent booksellers, according to local media. This week, they report police hauled away boxes of books and arrested five people on suspicion of selling what authorities in the territory call seditious publications. It's NPR News.
This season of Plenty of Summer School, we go to China, one of the world's biggest economy. And what we learned is Americans are crazy. Chinese are crazy. These are two countries full of these crazy hustlers. The US and China are more like than you might think.
On Plenty of Summer School, a strange lesson about success, how to handle the downsides of progress.
