"Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Wilman.
Gasoline prices remain high across the country because of the instability in the Middle
East.
“According to AAA, the average price of a gallon of gas in the country right now is $4.10”
cents. In Pennsylvania it's a little higher at $4.22 that's up $1 from this time last year. Angela Ronseman is heading to Binghamton, New York this weekend, she says she's definitely noticing the difference." Well, I just topped off the tank in PA, it was 409, around St. Clair, driving up this
of a variety of different prices, you know, ranging like between 409 and 429 and so forth. President Trump signed an executive order Friday that takes aim at the Smithsonian Institution. It accuses the 180-year-old museum and research complex of advocating for, quote, "social justice and the radical transformation of our society." But here's Danielle Kurtzlevin has more.
In the order of the President references an administration report focusing on the national museum of American history.
“The report accuses that museum of over-emphasizing troubling aspects of American history, like”
slavery and colonization, while under-emphasizing or being too negative about the nation's founders. The order directs the Secretary of the Interior to install signs near the museum to correct quote inaccurate information and tell visitors that quote, "the museum exhibits should be renovated." Congress set up the institution to be independent.
A Board of Regents oversees it, though government officials are on that board, including the Vice President's Supreme Court Chief Justice and bipartisan members of Congress. Danielle Kurtzlevin and PR News. President Trump said Friday he'll open a formal investigation into trading practices of the European Union. He claims the EU is illegally levied billions of dollars of fines against
a number of U.S. tech companies.
On Thursday the EU fined Google $1 billion for allegedly violating digital anti-trust regulations.
For the second year in a row, the US has reported a record-breaking number of measles cases. According to the latest data from the CDC, the count has up to 2,318. President Pierre's Miyagodeu reports that's the highest number in 35 years. The resurgence of measles comes amid falling vaccination rates and rising rates of non-medical
exemptions to school vaccine requirements. Some 70% of infections have been in children and adolescents. Last year, two unvaccinated children died of measles. Pediatric infectious disease specialists, Dr. Adam Ratner, says, "To turn things around, the country needs to raise vaccination rates."
These also are most contagious disease. I don't want to go back to a time when every year we had children dying of measles in the U.S. Meanwhile, many local health departments are grappling with staff and funding cuts from the federal government, including two immunization programs. Maria Gadoe and PR News.
Add your listening to NPR news. A suicide bomber supported by gunmen attacked a security checkpoint in northwest Pakistan overnight. Officials say 15 security members were killed along with 12 militants. The attackers ramped a vehicle filled with explosives into the checkpoint. The Pakistani Taliban known as the TTP has been blamed for the attack.
Maskipol superstar Lebron James says he'll join the Philadelphia 76ers, Nick Karyokia. Member Station, WHY, spoke with Philadelphia's about the big news. At your old Jordan Daily, he was excited to hear the news that King James has chosen the city of brotherly love.
“"We're going to like, proudly win. I think we're going to probably win the whole thing."”
63-year-old Michael Velania compared the news to some of the great Philly sports moments of the past. "This reminds me of when we finally won the last championship in '83 when they got Moses. Because Daryl talked as was good, but he was no Moses. He only played good against Boston. Moses basically finished that team off."
Sports media outlets say the NBA's all-time leading score is signing an $8 million to your contract.
Lebron James, a four-time NBA champion who will turn 42 in December, says he hopes to bring a championship to Philly before he retires. For MPR news, I'm Nick Karyokia and Philadelphia. Michael Kim shot around a 59 on Friday. It's only the 15th time that's happened in PGA history. He did it by sinking a 24 foot foot foot for birdie on the 18th hole at this weekend's championship in Minnesota.
He sits in first place after two rounds while three players are tied for second three strokes off the lead. I'm Dale Wilman and PR news. Of all the protests in the summer of 2020, for a moment there, it was Utopia. One took a unique turn. "Some of you over there, Daryl's 18-year-old is a good." This is the story of how violence came to occupy an anti-violence occupation in Seattle.
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