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Department says the U.S. gross domestic product grew at an annual pace of one and a half
“percent during the spring quarter slower growth in the economy saw last year, and P.R. Scott”
Horsley reports. I have consumers have to pay more for every gallon of gas, and at least less money in their pockets to spend on everything else. And that's especially true for lower income households. The war with Iran has caused higher inflation on average, and people's wages are not keeping up with those higher prices. So far, that is not forced most people to cut back
on spending, but it has pushed them to dip into savings or put more of their spending on the credit card. That's NPR Scott Horsley reporting. President Trump's social media platform, Truth Social, has started selling in early access version of his post to investment banks and other institutions. His NPR's Bobby Allen reports the service has raised alarm among legal experts and former
Wall Street regulators. For $100,000 a month, Truth API offers an early feed of the President's Truth Social Posts, since Trump regularly uses his social media site to make news about the economy
“and world affairs or a handset government policy. The posts can move the stock market.”
Former regulators with the securities and exchange commission told NPR the service appears to violate insider trading laws against misusing government information for private gain. In response to spokeswoman for Trump media and technology groups, said the new product gives customers faster access to public information, saying critics have, quote, "invented new theories of insider trading to attack the President."
Government disclosure show Trump made more than $2 billion while in office last year.
Bobby Allen and PR news. Highlands continues in Gaza, despite President Trump's announcement of what he called a breakthrough agreement for Hamas to disarm. The Gaza Health Ministry says Israeli strikes killed 152 Palestinians in July, including 21 children.
And PR's Honest Baba reports from Gaza City. Israel continues to bomb across Gaza while expanding the territory under its military control to more than 2/3 of the strip.
“Two separations have continued even as U.S. lit efforts focused on securing a lasting”
ceasefire, Hamas disarmament and a new administration for Gaza. The latest Israeli air strike before tone Saturday hit medication warehouses. Israel's military says the warehouses store rifles without providing any evidence. The Gaza Health Ministry says two warehouses were destroyed while the blast also damaged more than 210 children displaced family nearby.
Prime Ministerly says more than 1,200 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks since the U.S. vaccines fire reached lost October. And a small bowl of NPR news, Gaza City. This is NPR news in Washington. Nearly 200,000 people are returning home in southwestern France after emergency crews contained
a massive wild fire that broke out more than a week ago. New fires are broken out elsewhere in France and Greece, as hot-tri-conditions can continue across much of southern Europe. Plans by the United States to reduce the number of locations that serve as visa operations in several African countries is taking effect.
Michael Kolokhi reports from Nairobi. U.S. embassies and conciliates in over 20 African cities are realigning their routine visa services. The affected locations include Osaka, Inzambia, Namibia's capital Rintuk and the South African City of Durban residents of those areas who wish to apply for U.S. visa will be required
to apply through one of 20 designated visa locations such as Ghana's capital, Akra and Nairobi in Kenya. According to the State Department, the changes aimed to strengthen national security by promoting more uniform screening, vetting and education standards, as well as improving efficiency.
The department adds that realigning visa services to designated hubs has previously been carried out successfully in several African nations and in Europe as well. For NPR news, on Michael Kolokhi in Nairobi.
After the first time in more than a century, a total solar eclipse will cross mainland
Spain next summer. On August 12, daytime darkness will sweep across the Iberian Peninsula along with parts of Greenland and Iceland with totality lasting up to two minutes and 18 seconds. Apartually, eclipse will also be visible across Alaska, Canada, the northern U.S., much of Europe and West Africa.
This is NPR news in Washington. For grateful dead fans, this summer is a moment of transition. For the first time in years, there are no members of the dead touring the band's music, but that doesn't mean the music's going to stop. This August will go around the country with NPR music to see where the long-strange trip
goes next. Listen to that after death. A two episode series starting August 1, find it on the NPR music podcast wherever you listen.
