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At least eight people are dead, dozens wounded, as Russia pounded Ukraine overnight with hundreds
of drones and missiles." And here's Greg Myri has more.
“President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that a late night post on social media that Russia”
was planning a major attack. Hours later, the bombing began with missile and drone firearm multiple cities, including the capital key. The deadliest attack was in the central city of Creepy, where local officials said six members of an extended family were killed.
The bombardment came two days after Zelensky met President Trump at the White House and asked for more air defense weapons. Russia carries out air strikes nightly, empiriotically unleashes a massive barrage in an attempt to overwhelm Ukraine's limited air defenses.
Greg Myri impy our news, key.
The number of people excused from the Trump administration's new state Medicaid work requirement rules is small, smaller than even some conservative states wanted. Katherine Houghton of KFF Health News has more. By January, millions of people will have to prove they're either working, volunteering, or going to school to keep Medicaid's low-cost health coverage.
States like Montana initially planned to give people who are homeless a pass, but the federal government says that's not allowed.
“My Medicaid is still active, but when are they going to cut that off?”
From me, I can't get employed. How am I supposed to survive? Taiwan Pew has been living without housing in Missouri, Montana, since his wife's death last year. He has seizures that make it hard to keep a job.
People like Pew could still qualify for a medical exemption, but that would take a paper trail of proof, which is especially hard for people without steady access to housing and healthcare. The head of FIFA is setting a September 19th deadline for World Soccer Federation to join a venture bank rolled by the brother of President Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner.
And if he was John Stone, this says the plan is drawing stark negative reaction from many of those governing bodies. The European soccer body, UEFA, calls the move by FIFA President Johnny Infantino, a scheme, and says the world cup is not FIFA's to sell.
The plan to create a $20 billion subsidiary to run the world cup would be backed by Joshua
“Kushner's investment firm Thrive Capital.”
In a video selling the potential arrangement, Infantino pitched the idea as a way to grow the sport for everyone. If and only if, it is approved by the majority of our 2011 member associations and FIFA Council, it would be a FIFA owned and controlled subsidiary consolidating FIFA's commercial and event operation.
Division Federation officials are also against the move. And Pierre's John Stone is reporting. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. The economy expanded at a sluggish past in the second quarter. The commerce department says the GDP, the country's output of goods and services, grew
at an annual rate of 1.5% down from the 2.1% growth in the first quarter. Meanwhile, consumer spending was strong, but inflation was up 3.7% in June, year-over-year. When he's founded Xi'an, a massive fast-fashion online retailer says its U.S. operations are under the investigation of the Federal Trade Commission. If here's Elena Seljuk reports.
Xi'an over the years has faced numerous inquiries in the U.S. and in Europe, often focused on its supply chain and workplace conditions. Last year, for example, Xi'an told British lawmakers that it had found two cases of child labor at its factories. At the time, Xi'an was aiming to list its shares in London, which did not work out.
Xi'an also had tried and failed to do an IPO in New York. Now it's going for Hong Kong. And its financial disclosures had to report the new investigation by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. They have to see confirmed the probe to NPR, but its focus and timing are unclear.
Xi'an says the result could mean significant fines. Elena Seljuk and Pierre News In Australia, an over-do book was returned to a public library, late, very late, 150 years late. Officials say the book, antiquities of Athens, was found inside a sealed fireplace by
a man-doing renovations, but collecting the fine around $28,000 Australian dollars would be tough since records from the 1970s have been lost. The library says it's displaying the book in its local history collection, but it won't be longed out again. You're listening to NPR News from Washington.
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