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"Troup training would have to be cut back if the Pentagon doesn't get the $67 billion
“in supplemental funds. It's requesting from Congress." He also raised concerns about”
"Troup pay and weapons that defend against enemy drones and missiles."
Without these funds, we face critical shortfalls that threaten our ability to also simply
pay our service members. Rapidly replenish equipment and munitions and sustained vital operations without disruption. Republicans are trying to pass the budget package before lawmakers take a month-long break to campaign for the mid-term elections. Later this week, the Senate will consider another war power's resolution limiting President Trump's ability to unilaterally wage war. Most Americans disapprove of how Trump is handling the conflict
as gas prices spike again. President Trump says he plans to help Lebanon, the U.S. has been trying to get Israeli forces to leave areas where they've been fighting Iranian backed Hezbollah in Southern Lebanon, as Empire's Michelle Kalman reports. "Lebany's President Joseph Aoun says his goal is to end the state of hostility between Israel
“and Lebanon, and that he's been looking forward to this White House visit."”
"I mean, things such a great President like yourself. That's a very nice thing. See, he knows that he get to me." Israel occupies large parts of Southern Lebanon where its fighting Iranian backed Hezbollah under a U.S. mediated pilot program, the Israelis have begun to hand off some small areas to the Lebanese armed forces. Aoun calls his country's military the backbone of stability and is asking for more U.S. support. President Trump
didn't offer specifics, but says he will help a lot. Michelle Kalman and B.R. News, the State Department. "A software error in New Jersey led to more than 6,000 non-citizens being registered to vote. As Empire's Miles Parks reports, the state says the issue has been resolved, but such errors have been shown to fuel conspiracy theories."
"The software error meant that thousands of people who answered no to the question, are U.A. U.S. citizen at a DMV were still registered to vote anyway. New Jersey's governor Mikey Cheryl called the problem serious, but she also said fewer than 400 of the mistake in registrants actually voted, and the erroneous registrations have now been removed as well. These sorts of bureaucratic errors aren't unheard of, Oregon dealt with a similar issue
in 2024, but non-citizens have never been shown to register on purpose in anything but
very small numbers. Still, experts expected these sorts of errors to be spotlighted by those looking to cast out on the entire election system this fall. Miles Parks and Piano's Washington." The Trump administration is seeking to toss aside a 60-year-old requirement for tens of thousands of private sector employers to submit workforce demographic reports to the Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission, the EEOC's Republican Majority rescinded the data collection requirement today. It's now subject to a 30-day public comment period. This is NPR News. The director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History is pushing back against a White House report labeling the institution's leadership as radical activists. On Thia M. Hartig told a House Oversight Subcommittee today the report does not fairly represent
the museum's work. The report was released on July 4th and criticized the museum as not telling history and an inspiring and unifying way. A new NASA telescope set to launch next month might give us insights into black holes Scott Mouse Eoni from member station WYPR explains what scientists will look for with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.
The hardest part about observing black holes is that they're black and hard to see, even
“on a high resolution telescope. The best way to look for them is to look at the stars”
they're shredding apart with their massive gravitational poles. NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will launch on August 30th, partly to detect black holes that existed
up to 11 billion years ago. Mitchell Carmen, a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University,
is the lead on the study. Studying black holes is really studying the most extreme parts of physics and it's all a part of trying to understand how the world works even in the biggest sin in the smallest scales. The Roman Telescope will have the same resolution as the Hubble Telescope, both a much larger field of view. For MPR News, I'm Scott Mouse Eoni in Baltimore.
A goat named Goldie has been accompanying crews fighting a small wildfire in Colorado. The Colorado Springs with fire departments says Goldie led firefighters to the fire area and helped with fuel mitigation along the way by chomping on leaves. This is NPR News. This season on Planet Money Cyber School, we're going on a world tour. And first up, we're following the money down under. From Australia's market where people buy and sell
water to how New Zealand is changing the way central banks fight inflation. Pack your bags and come along as we learn from the rest of the world. Planet Money Cyber School, listen on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts.
