Live from NPR news in New York City, I'm Dualhli-Sikow-Tow.
Stocks opened higher this morning as McDonald's reported a slowdown in U.S. sales growth.
“And Pierce Scott Horsley reports the Dow Jones industrial average jumped more than 500”
points in early trading. McDonald says its U.S. sales grew by less than 1% during the most recent quarter, the Mark slowdown from the same period a year ago, the fast food giant warned during the spring that rising gas prices might cut into its sales, McDonald's is trying to woo cost conscious diners with its value menu, the Vitam's priced at $3 or less.
Stock and Caterpillar got a boost after the company reported record quarterly sales of more
than $20 billion, Caterpillar seems strong demand for industrial turbines to power data
centers. And the U.S. trade deficit narrowed in June, exports and imports both fell during the month, but imports fell more. Scott Horsley, in Parenthood, is Washington. President Trump warns Iran that this is Tehran's last chance to make a deal to end the
five months long war, he had called off weekend attacks saying negotiations were imminent
“with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Cater and others, but Iran denies that direct”
talks are taking place. More than two dozen states are suing the Trump administration over new tariffs imposed on some of the largest trading partners in the U.S. And Paris' Daniel Kurtz-Labin says the levies were imposed on countries accused of exporting goods made with force labor.
25 states in all are suing the administration, saying in their suit that, quote, "the administration cannot use force labor as a pretext to continue its illegal tariff scheme." The administration imposed the tariffs under a law meant to fight discriminatory practices by trading partners. They set the new tariffs to take effect last month at the moment that another global blanket
tariff expired. The lawsuit uses that continuity, as well as the president's own words, to argue that the new tariffs are not a good faith effort to fight forced labor.
“The states furthermore called the investigation that preceded the new tariffs a sham.”
Daniel Kurtz-Labin NPR news the White House. The food borne illness that has been reported across the country has now killed at least two people in Michigan, where health officials say more than 11,000 people have been sickened with cyclists' surprises. Kate Wells is a reporter with our partner KFF Health News.
We just do not have a lot of information about these deaths right now. We do know that there are several outbreaks happening at this point. They're not necessarily connected with each other. The FDA says Michigan's part of a nine-start estate outbreak, but we really have just got local public health nurses here walking through with people everything that they have eaten
in great detail. As she said, there are at least 45 states currently with cases of cyclists' surprises, and no answers yet on what is causing this outbreak. This is NPR news from New York City. Recent Russian attacks on printing facilities in Ukraine have severely impacted the Ukrainian
book industry. NPR's Hana Palmonenko reports from cave that these attacks destroyed millions of books this summer.
According to Ukraine's Ministry of Culture, more than one-and-a-half million books and
text books were destroyed in July. In early August, Russia attacked two more major book printing facilities in Harkiv, as a result more than eight million books, including school text books were burned. Deputy Minister of Culture, Bhavdana LaYuksedon, Ukraine and Television, that as a result some of the text books will be late in reach and students this school year.
The Russians targeted strikes on warehouses and printing plans are not only continuing, but are becoming increasingly intense, she says. Ukraine and government is currently formulating two long-term programs to bolster the sector and provide sustainable support to publishers. On the Palomarenko, NPR News, cave, search teams in Pakistan's Karakore Mountains are still working
to collect the remains of a 10-member expedition that died after an avalanche last week. So far, only eight bodies have been recovered, including normal Persia, also known as NIMS die from the Netflix documentary, 14 peaks. Pakistan's Foreign Minister offered condolences to the bereaved families from China and Paul Oman, the United Kingdom and the United States, saying the determination and pursuit
of excellence shown by all those who perished and bought it the true spirit of mountaineering. I'm Duahli-Sai-Caltown, NPR News in New York City. The midterms are coming and that means the new cycle, which is already intense, is about to get more intense this fall. So the summer is a perfect time to make sure your news diet is calibrated.
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