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The Senate has approved a Russia sanctions bill with support from a broad by partisan majority. And here's Claudia DeGosales reports, "The plan saw momentum after the bill's architect, Lindsey Graham, died last month." Senator Graham led the push for Russia sanctions as part of an effort to end the war
in Ukraine. The legislation was named in his honor as the bill's supporter saw it as a tribute to the South Carolina Republican, that included a sister, Darling Graham, who was appointed to serve the remainder of his term. "My late brother Lindsey was a foreign policy and national security expert.
It was also a peacemaker who was determined to bring it into the conflict in Ukraine." It would place sanctions on top Russian leaders and top importers of Russian oil. It would also allow President Trump to place tariffs on those importers, which some Democrats say unnecessarily gives Trump more power. President Trump paid a rare visit to the State Department today to talk about an issue that
“he calls an important matter of national security, investing in the U.S. mining industry.”
And here's Michelle Kellerman reports, he announced projects were $3 billion. Mining experts and business leaders gathered at the State Department's Ben Franklin room as Trump spelled out his goals of making the U.S. a "minorals superpower."
Ensuring that America is never again reliant on hostile foreign nations for the resources
our country needs to dominate in the future. Specifically, the kind of rare earth minerals and metals that are vital to high-tech manufacturing. Trump also touted $81 million in grants to the Colorado School of Minds, the South Dakota School of Minds, and the Johns Hopkins RTX partnership. Secretary of State Marco Rubio calls it a whole-of-nation effort.
Michelle Kellerman and PR News, the State Department. A disappointing July jobs report out this morning shows employers unexpectedly shrank payrolls. The Labor Department says employers cut 23,000 jobs last month and gains in the previous months were revised sharply lower. And pure Scott Horsey has more.
“The market that was already sluggish is now shifted into reverse retailers and insurance companies”
cut jobs last month, even health care, which had been a reliable source of job growth so weaker hiring in July than earlier in the year. Some of the losses at public schools might have been exaggerated by seasonal adjustments, but make no mistake. This was a weak report.
Economist Cori contenga of LinkedIn says even bars and restaurants, which hope to get a kick from the big soccer tournament this summer, instead wound up losing 26,000 jobs last month. And peer Scott Horsey reporting, the unemployment rate dipped slightly to 4.1%, because
more than a quarter million job seekers gave up and dropped out of the workforce.
You're listening to NPR News from Washington. About 7 million more Americans are living with Alzheimer's disease, a degenerative brain condition that has no cure.
“And peers ping-wong reports on a new direction for treatments.”
One of the primary markers of Alzheimer's disease is a protein called Tao in its long-tangled form. New research in the journal Neuron shows that under stress Tao proteins enter mitochondria, the part of the cell that converts nutrients to energy. They reverse the process causing the release of toxic molecules.
Bingway Lou is a professor at Stanford Medicine and senior author on the paper. In Asia, if you think this may actually help with organisms cope with this stress, about too much of this thing, you might actually kill Neuron's and cause this cognitive deficit. Lou and his colleagues conducted research on flies, mice, and lab grown Neurons with
signs of Alzheimer's. When the scientists blocked this process, each recovered and was more resilient to future stress, ping-wong and PR News. The country's largest reservoir by its storage capacity hit our record low yesterday. The Bureau of Reclamation says Lake Meads Pool Elevation hit a new low of 1,040.5 feet.
This has prolonged drought conditions, especially low snowpack and extreme heat, contributed to the huge declines at several Colorado River Basin reservoirs this year.
The basin formed by the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River is a critical system in the
western US and Mexico providing water and hydroelectric power for tens of millions in the southern Basin states, Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. This is NPR News. This week on the NPR Politics podcast, another progressive Democrat, Edges Out, and Establishment Candidate.
Abdul Elsayed, one Michigan Senate primary campaigning on affordability, health care, and ending US military aid to Israel. Join us as we break down his victory and what it could signal for November's mid-terms on the NPR Politics podcast.
