"Live from NPR News in Washington.
six people have been killed in a shooting at a high school near the capital, or then it
“does and others were wounded. As Michael Sullivan reports, police say the attack was carried”
out by a student." The incident occurred at the tipsary not to blurry school, not far from Bangkok. Police say the suspected shooter was a student at the school, who allegedly opened
fire with a handgun before barricading himself on the third floor where police say he eventually
turned the gun on himself. The dead include several students and teachers at the school. One to 18-year-old student told the Reuters news agency he initially thought that were firecrackers going off. "I didn't think it was a gun at first," he said. "There were many shots, then a one quiet, then it started again. The wounded were taken in nearby hospitals. Friend Piano is a Michael Sullivan in Shanghai." President Trump says an agreement to
allow commercial ship traffic to pass through the straight-of-war moves has still not been finalized. Iran's foreign ministry has indicated talks with Oman are in their last stages.
“A federal judge in Boston is scheduled to hear arguments today on a request to block a key”
section of President Trump's executive order, limiting voting by mail in the upcoming November midterm elections, and PR's Hansi Lo Wong says the President's order is also under review at the U.S. Supreme Court. "So far, President Trump's order has not directly affected mail-in voting. It calls for the U.S. Postal Service to get lists of eligible voters from states and deliver mail-in balance only to people on those lists. U.S. P.S.'s financial support of NPR.
A federal judge in Boston found Trump's directives overstep a President's authority under the Constitution. Trump has asked his Supreme Court to pause that ruling, arguing the administration, is likely to win this stage of the legal flight because the 23 mainly Democratic-led states plus Washington D.C. that challenge Trump's order sued too early before the order was fully carried out. Meanwhile, the same judge in Boston is considering a
“request from voting rights groups to block U.S. P.S. from moving ahead with Trump's order”
in the states that didn't sue. On Zilawang and PR News. "Republic came Congressmen and the Ogles of Tennessee lost his GOP primary yesterday. The state's former agriculture commissioner Charlie Hatcher defeated Ogles, who was endorsed by President Trump. Hatcher will face Democrat and Columbia Mayor Chaz Molder in November. In the state's gubernatorial primaries, Senator Marsha Blackburn won the Republican nomination. She will face Memphis City Councilwoman
Jerry Green, who won the Democratic gubernatorial primary. The latest U.S. employment numbers are due out this morning from the Labor Department. Economists are forecasting a modest uptick and job growth for the month of July after a sluggish space of hiring in June. This is NPR News. The Justice Department says Duke University's law school has been unlawfully considering race as a factor in its admissions process. Assistant Attorney General
Harmeet Dillon with the DOJ's Civil Rights Division accuses Duke of discriminating against applicants by using essay questions to identify preferred races for admission to its law school. The university says it's committed to following the law and is reviewing the DOJ's letter.
A judge in New Mexico was ordering Mehta to pay $567 million in to a fund to help address
harms from the company's social media platforms. This is an addition to $375 million in Mehta was ordered to pay previously for having violated the state's unfair practices act earlier this year. NPR's John Ruwick has more. New Mexico is one of dozens of states suing Mehta over child safety and a jury in March found that the company had violated the state's consumer protection laws. In a fresh order the judge ordered Mehta to put $567 million in to a so-called abatement fund,
the fund will be used to abate the public nuisance that Mehta created with its social media platforms, which include Facebook and Instagram. The order said the court decided such a fund was necessary due to the wide-ranging impacts of the harm and the complex nature of the remedy. Mehta says it disagrees with the ruling and will appeal. Later this month another landmark trial against Mehta by a group of states gets underway in California. John Ruwick and PR News.
Regulators in Britain are signing off on Paramount's $81 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery.
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