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Dr. Anthony Fauci expected to be on Capitol Hill today.
“Fauci was issued a subpoena compelling his appearance.”
He has answered questions about COVID-19 after Republican Senator Rand Paul published what he says are diary entries written by Fauci during the pandemic, in release highlights an ongoing disagreement between some politicians and scientists over the origins of the coronavirus and Piersari Daniel has more. The debate centers around whether the virus originated naturally in an animal and spilled
over into a human, or if it was deliberately created in a lab and leaked. When Fauci was writing diary entries about researchers considering both theories, very little was known. Today, many scientists agreed the available data support a natural origin of the virus. Felicia Goodrem is a virologist at Dartmouth College.
She says this is what happens as researchers gather data. "You will change your mind. That's absolutely fundamental to the way science is done and it's something that Fauci
“wasn't really given any latitude to do."”
Fauci will testify before a committee chaired by Senator Paul, who says his efforts to hold Fauci to account are, quote, "overside," are a Daniel, NPR News. "As an interim spoke Tuesday at the funeral of South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, calling Graham one of the great figures in Senate history." Lindsey quickly became a master at maneuvering in one of the world's great legislative bodies.
He secured record funding for our military as a budget committee chairman. He delivered the largest investment in border security in history and last year. He shepherded the passage of the largest tax cuts in American history. The great, big, beautiful bill. Following Senator Graham's funeral service at Washington National Cathedral, the Senate
took the first steps toward passing a new Russia sanctions bill that Graham had long
championed the Senate advance of bill on an 86 to 12 volt with the visiting Ukrainian leader Volodivir's and Lyntsky in the chamber.
“Israeli military raids in the occupied West Bank continue after a deadly confrontation between”
two of settlers and Palestinian villagers. MPR's Emily Fang reports to Israelis for Palestinians died in the clash. Israel's defense ministry has vowed to crack down on what they called "strongholds of terror and the West Bank", closing gates on Rhodes, Palestinians used in setting up new checkpoints.
That's left wholesale produce sellers Serhan, Al-Ikanan, unable to get home for the last three days. He's been sleeping on the floor of a public market. He says the settlers come to us, "We don't attack them yet they come and destroy everything." Nearby, settlers set fire to an industrial truck and in the village over, burned down
a local mosque and active arson, the Israeli military says it's investigating. Emily Fang and Pyrenees, Beta, and the West Bank. This is NPR. The Senate has confirmed a Clayton, as President Trump's director of National Intelligence, the 51-47 vote fell along strict party lines, Clayton takes over from acting director
Bill Pulti, who oversaw sharp staff cuts in the short time he was in charge. Coca-Cola CEO says the beverage giants are a big booster in the World Cup, despite customers cutting back on snacks in the face of economic uncertainty from a member stationed W.A.B.E. More than Hyde reports. The Coca-Cola company says it's our global volume, grow, 5% and net revenues of over
$13 billion at a time when consumers are cutting back in some areas.
During the company's earnings call, CEO and Ricky Braun credits this summer's World Cup for lifting sales. By dividing around the FIFA World Cup, contribute to trademark Coca-Cola, volume growth of 5% for the water, it's strongest volume growth in 17 years, excluding COVID recovery. Meanwhile, Coke says following a pause in U.S. production of its milk brand, fair life,
operations are starting again, official say the hack had no impact to sales. For NPR news, I'm Marlin Hyde, and I land a president Trump says he wants to honor the California Lifeguard who's rescue of a boy caught impounding surf was captured on video. Trump said Tuesday that he will invite the guard and possibly the boy to the White House. That dramatic rescue happened at Sea Bright Beach in Santa Cruz about an hour down the
coast from San Francisco official say Santa Cruz Lifeguards rescued more than 30 people
from the powerful swells over the weekend.
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.
