Lai from NPR news on trial Snyder in Las Vegas Wednesday.
sell Nevada and the nation on his economic agenda. Trump shouted his no taxes on tips
“policy, but his empty Pacific shiver on report some workers say it is not enough to combat”
lower tourism in the region and high prices from the Iran war. Mario Sondival has been a server in Las Vegas for 40 years. He's a tip-tworker, but he says his salary is way down compared to previous years, because fewer tourists are coming to the city. They're not spending or eating like they used to anymore. The Las Vegas convention and visitors' authority says tourism dipped 7.5% in 2025. And
that's a big hit for workers who rely on tourism and tips. Trump meanwhile continues to argue that his economy is doing great, but a new Reuters' Ipsos poll shows that for
the first time in nearly a decade, more Americans prefer Democrats on handling the economy instead
of Republicans. Deepish Ivoram and PR news Las Vegas. Democratic New Mexico lawmaker, Mariana Nios, has the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's crimes in the state is not complete without a thorough search of the property outside Santa Bay that Epstein called the Zoro Ranch.
“The evidence reviewed today supports the conclusion that Epstein abused at least five women”
and girls at Zoro Ranch, between 1996 and 2012. One of them is since passed. And the commission has counted at least 30 other individuals who potentially were abused in New Mexico. Nios spoke Wednesday during a meeting on Epstein's crimes as the state legislator's truth commission, released in one hundred page preliminary report about Epstein's time
in the state. Also, New Mexico attorneys general has filed a lawsuit in Washington, D.C., alleging the Justice Department blocked New Mexico from carrying out its own investigations, saying the state is one of the future restrictions that could still bring criminal charges.
State Department says it's providing more than $240 million in funding for Ebola response
as an ongoing outbreak, rages in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, so I'm 1750 people have died in Pierce Fatmatenus reports. The disease has been spreading quickly in the DRC and is officially the second largest Ebola outbreak on record.
“The new funding brings the total U.S. contribution to Ebola response to $512 million.”
The state department says those funds are supporting health screenings, isolation facilities, and the procurement of medical supplies in high-risk areas. This comes as the Trump administration has been slowly increasing the amount of foreign assistance funding after dismantling USAID and cutting billions in funds last year. Global health experts say the administration's cuts may have contributed to the delayed
detection of this Ebola outbreak in Central Africa, as funding shortages likely weakened local health systems, Fatmatenus and Pyreneus. This is NPR News. Cruz and Washington state taking advantage of cooler weather as they work to get a handle on those wildfires in and around the city of Spokane, with hotter drier and windier days
ahead of official said Wednesday that firefighters are focused on reinforcing containment lines around all three fires. One man has been arrested at authority say he deliberately set one of the fires together. They've destroyed hundreds of buildings and foresee evacuation of some 67,000 people. Thordies in Guatemala say activity at the Fuego Volcano is gradually decreasing, but they
are still warning of risks, specifically rainfall from a tropical wave that could potentially lead to volcanic mud flows of Fuego Volcano, beginning rupting Monday, some 1700 people from at least 18 communities were evacuated. The Vatican has announced that Pope Leo the 14th will visit South America later this year, as part of the visit, he'll return to a country he knows well, as NPR's Jason Duros reports.
Pope Leo plans to visit three countries in November, Oregon, Argentina, and Peru. The visit to Peru will be something of a homecoming for the Pondiff. He first arrived in the country as a missionary in the 1980s and later served as a bishop there. In fact, he holds both Peruvian and U.S. citizenship.
Leo's visit to Argentina may prove bitter sweet for Catholics there.
His predecessor, Pope Francis, was from Buenos Aires, but never visited the country during
his 12-year papacy. The visit to Uruguay is meant to promote evangelization there, or only about 40% of the population is Catholic. Jason Duros and PR news. 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. I'm Leila Faldel, on up first, we unpack the three biggest stories every morning so you can stay informed and get on with your day in less than 15 minutes.
