"Li from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.
President Trump is, once again, threatening to fire federal reserve Governor Lisa Cuck over unproven allegations of mortgage fraud.
“Imperial Scott Horsley reports that the move comes just over a month after the Supreme”
Court blocked Trump's earlier bid through movecuck. The White House is demanding that Lisa Cuck respond to allegations that she made false statements on mortgage applications.
Those charges were first raised by Trump ally William Pulti, who oversees mortgage giants
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Cuck has denied any wrongdoing, and her attorneys as the allegations are baseless and promised to fight them in court. Trump's earlier effort house, Cuck, came at a time when the president was waging a wider campaign to pressure the Fed to lower interest rates by design.
The central bank's supposed to be insulated from that kind of pressure. The Supreme Court ruled five to four back in June, the president's can only remove Fed governors for cause, a test of the White House, is yet to meet. Scott Horsley, Imperial News, Washington. The leaders of Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan signed a joint defense agreement today in
“the city of Mecca, and Pierce Hadil, all-shaltchi, has more.”
Details of the agreement were not immediately released, but the Pakistani Foreign Ministry said that it was intended to "strengthen collective deterrence against any act of aggression." This deal comes as tensions in the Middle East rise with fears of a widening war between the United States and Iran. The agreement would combine the strengths of Saudi Arabia as an oral-rich country, Pakistan,
a nuclear power, and Turkey, which has NATO's second largest military and a growing defense industry. Hadil al-shaltchi and PR news, Istanbul. In Puerto Rico, water rationing started today, as the island deals with a historic drought.
The water authority says water will be shut off for rotating 48-hour periods in parts of the capital, San Juan, and surrounding areas. And Pierce, Adrian Florito, has more. The island's public water utility has, for the better part of a year, not being able to deliver water to a lot of people's homes.
“So although the formal rationing is starting today, a lot of people have been coping for”
months without water for days at a time. In terms of how they're coping, whether cooking less, aving less, letting their plants wilt, storing water in buckets, and bins when they do get water, filling them up and storing the water, and they're buying a lot of bottled water. In Pierce, Adrian Florito reporting, summer is usually very wet.
It's the hurricane season, but there's been almost no rain in Puerto Rico for months. The summer is the island's driest in more than a century. Cameron Hamilton has been confirmed as head of FEMA. The agency, the former Navy, seal, briefly led last year. FEMA's future has been uncertain since President Trump threatened to eliminate it, Democrats
accused Trump of politicizing disaster aid. You're listening to NPR news. As the rise of AI drives an influx of new data centers, some places have used eminent domain to seize private property for public use. For a conversation, WPLN, Cynthia Abrams reports on efforts in Nashville, where city leaders
are trying to use that eminent domain to block a new data center. The proposed facility is located near the Nashville Zoo, and has drawn broad community pushback,
more than half a million people have signed a petition in opposition.
City leaders have enacted a temporary moratorium on data centers, but it won't block the zoo adjacent facility. The Nashville Mayor Freddie O'Connell has criticized the developer. They ignored encouragement to go engage with the zoo and community. So Nashville is now trying to prove its need of the $37 million plot of land through eminent
domain. The city council has greenlit the attempt, but Nashville will now have to go through the courts. It's successful. It could then purchase the land.
For NPR news, I'm Cynthia Abrams in Nashville. The economy, unexpectedly, unexpectedly lost 20,000 jobs last month. The cuts came in restaurants and retail shops, along with local governments in July. The labor department says the unemployment rate drops slightly to 4.1%, as more than 260,000 people simply stopped looking for work.
This is the second month in a row that the jobs report was weaker than economists expected, suggesting sluggish economic growth and rising prices are taking a toll on the labor market. I'm Janine Herbst and PR News in Washington. This week, I'm consider this.
Virginia thought her criminal record would follow her forever, until a few minutes with an AI app that told her she could clear her felonies.
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