"Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jeanine Herbst, a ceremony honoring th...
Lindsey Graham with music, prayers, and speeches is wrapping up at the U.S. Capitol.
“Senator Majority Leader John Thune told those gathered his heart as heavy and that he”
feels Graham's absence daily. Vice President Vance also remembered Graham. "It was impossible not to like him, that swash buckling infectious laugh, that attitude, that passion that so many others have talked about, Lindsey Graham was impossible not to like as a human being, and of course, as a United States Senator."
Meanwhile President Trump met with Ukrainian President Zelensky at the White House this morning and is set to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu this hour, both men are in town for Graham's funeral this afternoon at the National Cathedral.
French officials have evacuated an additional 4,000 people from tourist sites on the Atlantic
coast as firefighters continue to battle wildfires. If your Zelensky obviously reports they're bracing as a 4th heat wave hits Europe. The precautionary evacuation order covered campsites, holiday villages, tourist residences
“and leisure parks in the Zerolm region southwest of the city of Bordeaux, fires in France”
and Spain have forced around 330,000 people to evacuate over the last week. The firefighters say the French blazes stabilized, but could take off again as temperatures are expected to soar above 100 degrees Fahrenheit by Wednesday, the European Union's Copernicus Climate Service and the World Meteorological Organization say Europe is the world's fastest warming continent, heating at more than twice the global average.
Eleanor Beardsley, in Piano's, similar on Oaxua, France. It's already been a record year for a cyclist's warah, the diarrhea causing parasite that's expected to sick, sick and thousands more. As empires who can go to reports, it comes amid deep cuts to public health. For money to handle outbreaks and food safety, states rely mostly on grants from the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration. The Trump Administration's cuts to federal agencies slashed those grants.
“Sarah Sorcer is regulatory affairs director for the Center for Science in the Public”
Interest. Delays lack of clarity, just time-to-solving problems are all symptoms of this broader issue that particular state and local public health departments are in crisis. Many states have cut staff who investigate outbreaks, she says, leading to consumer confusion about which foods are safe to eat, utiniguchi and PR news.
In Southern Japan, dozens are injured after a magnitude 6.8 earthquakes struck the Kumamoto region bringing down bridges and buildings and trapping people in a collapsed shopping center. dozens of aftershocks are also hitting the area, this comes 10 years after a quake, hit the same area, killing more than 270 people, this is NPR. The Trump Administration has asked the Supreme Court to allow an executive order from
President Trump that restricts voting by mail to continue while lawsuits from 23 states play out. Trump's order asked the post office to create lists of eligible voters and deliver mail in ballots only to them, critic say election rules are set by states and Congress, not presidents.
The government of Chad says it's started the process of withdrawing from the international criminal court, it's the fourth country in Africa to do so in less than a year, as impairs Jewelbright reports. It's booksperson for Chad's government says the country is even the ICC because the court is court ineffective and biased against African countries.
This was the same reason given by the governments of neighbouring Marley, Niger and Bukinefaso, when they announced they withdraw from the court of the September, the ICC has consistently denied being biased against African countries. The withdrawals also come amid the campaign by the Trump Administration to dismantle the ICC after it issued an arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
by the war in Gaza, the U.S. Bureau of African Affairs has issued a statement praising Charles decision to leave the court, Jewelbright and P.R. News, Lagos.
Johnson and Johnson is offering to pay five and a half billion dollars to settle lawsuits
alleging Talq in the company's baby powder was contaminated with cancer causing asbestos. J.N.J. reformulated its baby powder and it no longer uses Talq. I'm Janine Herbst, N.P.R. News in Washington. This season of Plenty 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 U.S. and China are more alike than you might think. On Plenty Summer School a strange lesson about success, how to handle the downsides of progress.
