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expected. The Labor Department says the economy lost 23,000 jobs last month instead

of gaining what many economists expected to be around 80,000 jobs like Reagan is managing editor of Bloomberg. But really all adds up to suggest that, you know, the labor market is pretty much softening at a pretty somewhat alarming rate here in the summer. Mike Reckon on NPR is here and now. President Trump is once again threatening to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook over unproven allegations of mortgage fraud. The move

comes just over a month after the Supreme Court blocked Trump's earlier effort to remove Cook. The way continues for the nation's high courts ruling on whether the administration

can resume carrying out key parts of the president's executive order to limit voting

by mail in the midterm election. And P. R. Hansey low-one reports another ruling on Trump's order may come soon from a lower court. A federal judge in Boston is considering a request to block the U.S. Postal Service from carrying out President Trump's directives across the country. American civil liberties unions Sophia then Lake and Hellfilell are request.

Changing rules of the game at this point in time is such a significant matter does nothing to ensure confidence in the election this November, and would only create chaos and confusion for voters. Trump's order calls for a U.S. P.S. which is vanential support of NPR to get lists of eligible voters from states and deliver mail and balance only to people on those lists.

The president has said he issued this order to stop illegal voting by non-U.S. citizens. A problem that many studies have found to be extremely rare. The Supreme Court is now considering Trump's request to pause an earlier ruling that blocks implementation of the policy in the 23 states plus Washington D.C. that's sued over the order. Hansey low-one NPR news.

There was a mass shooting at a high school in Thailand today.

Local authorities outside Bangkok say a student killed at least five people in wounded 20 others before taking his own life. He's also accused of killing his two grandparents. The United Nations Children's Agency says at least 300 children have been reported killed in Gaza since the ceasefire was signed nearly a year ago.

And P.R. is Dana Raff reports that's an average of one child a day. Israel agreed last October to suspend military operations and allow in more food in medicine in the agreement with Hamas. UNICEF said the ceasefire was failing children and noted that hundreds more children had been injured.

The Israeli military is now occupying more of the Gaza Strip with families crowded

into roughly a third of the territory without adequate clean water or waste facilities.

UNICEF said children there continue to face acute malnutrition and disease. A UN Commission in June found that Israel had deliberately killed Palestinian children throughout the war in Gaza and said Israel continued to fail to protect children after the ceasefire. Israel rejected the findings.

Jane Araff and P.R. News. This is NPR. Strations Mountain Puerto Rico's capital son Juan and other cities, hundreds of thousands of people. Now under government mandated water rationing, 48 hours on, 48 hours off, the result

of an extreme drought weighing on the island's water system, a system that has been severely strained by decades of underinvestment in the island's aging infrastructure. In son Juan, Nordma Pena is limiting her family to using only one toilet in their home to save water. And toilet is take a lot of water, most of the water, you know, what's that?

Four gallons every time you flush it, that's a lot of water.

But again, when the crisis come, you have to figure out new ways of surviving.

Ben, you're speaking with NPR's ageary inflowty, though. The Federal Communications Commission is voted a wipe away limits on how many Americans any one company can reach through the local TV stations it owns, more from NPR's state of its focus and play. FCC chairman Brendan Carr, says the local TV businesses under pressure from streaming.

And he says local TV companies need to bulk up to fight back networks like ABC and CBS and NBC. Carr's launched investigations of major broadcast networks, eggdond by President Trump. The vote on limits fell two to one along party lines. The loan Democrat on the commission says the vote was illegal.

That only Congress can change or erase those limits. But executives at next star hailed the decision, next our own's more TV stations than anyone. It's acquisition of a big rival would let it reach 80% of the nation, but that take over his own hold as a major antitrust lawsuit plays out.

David Folk and Flick and PR news, this is NPR. This week, unconcitor 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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