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President Trump is set to deliver a prime time speech to the nation to night at nine
Eastern, here's NPR's Frank Ordon, yes. President Trump is expected to use the coveted time to speak about the 2020 election. An election that he refused to acknowledge he'd lost. Critics worry that a speech rehashing old claims about foreign interference and voting machines could so distrust of the election system ahead of the upcoming mid-terms.
Press Secretary Caroline Levent was asked about concerns from some Republicans that Trump is focusing too much on the past and not enough on current kitchen table issues like the economy ahead of the mid-terms.
“"I think the American people will be relieved to hear what they are hearing from the president”
of the United States and his commitment to transparency and the focus on the integrity of our elections tonight." Have it said, Trump will likely also talk about the economy as well as Iran. Franco, Ordon, yes, NPR News. Retail sales inched higher last month, and Pierre Scott Horsley reports on the latest
figures from the Commerce Department. Retail sales rose by two tens 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, we sharply lower in June, thanks to falling gasoline prices. As prices have started climbing again, now the U.S. ceasefire with Iran is unraveled.
Triple A's is the average price of regular gas, jump to nickel a gallon overnight. The average price of diesel fuels climb back above $5 a gallon. Scott Horsley, and Pierre News, Washington. People with high cholesterol will soon have a new medicine to help.
“And Pierre Sidney Lepkin reports the FDA just approved a new kind of cholesterol pill that”
is not a statin. Statin pills like Crestor and Lipitora have been on the market for decades, and they can lower patients' bad cholesterol. Doctors have turned to newer medications called PCSK-9 inhibitors for patients who need more help lowering their cholesterol.
But they're given by injections and their expensive. Merch's new drug is a PCSK-9 pill, it's called Lipfendra. In clinical studies it reduced bad cholesterol in patients who had an inherited form of
very high cholesterol by nearly 60 percent after 24 weeks.
The new pill will be available at a list price of $315 for a month's supply of pills, but most patients will pay a lower out-of-pocket price the company says. Lipfendra should be on pharmacy shelves in a few weeks. Sidney Lepkin and Pierre News. The United Kingdom declares, quote, "The world cup might not be ours but the Falkland
“Islands definitely are Argentina soccer players who defeated England to get to the final”
celebrated with a banner, claiming sovereignty over the long contested Falkland Islands. Now, the UK wants FIFA to investigate. FIFA's disciplinary code bars political messages at a sports event finds range from $5,000 to $20,000. Argentina is set to play Spain's Sunday in the FIFA World Cup Final.
It's NPR News. Federal investigators say the helicopter that crashed into New York City's Hudson River and killed six people last year. Throughout signs of a bird strike, the National Transportation Safety Board says the remains of several geese were found on the wreckage of the sight-seeing helicopter.
Parts of Puerto Rico will begin rationing water in the wake of a drought in the U.S. territory, the associated press reporting at the head of the island's water and sewer authority says thousands of people in north-eastern Puerto Rico face 48-hour rationing period starting tomorrow. The team of scientists has found a kind of sugar in the center of our galaxy.
The discovery may have implications for how life began. More from NPR's are a Daniel. To look for clues about where the ingredients of life came from, researchers pointed two telescopes at the space between the stars of the Milky Way. This interstellar medium is a chemical factory that produces a range of organic molecules,
including the scientists just announced a four-carbon sugar. Mr. physicist Ithaskun, him in a cerra at the Center for Astrobiology, says the discovery was thrilling. "You're hard, that's beating, that's super fast, you can let's do it excited." The results suggest that sugars may have been incorporated into asteroids as they coalesced
in the interstellar medium, such a space rock could have then struck the early earth, sweetening the stage for the emergence of life here, R.E.D.N.L. and B.R. News.
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