Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Wilman.
The economy unexpectedly lost 23,000 jobs in July, the news from the labor department
“surprised analysts who were expecting a gain of 80,000 jobs.”
The data is raising concerns that the labor market may be cooling too quickly, and it could also give the federal reserve pause about raising interest rates too soon. KPMG chief economist Diane Swank says it could go either way. This doesn't take a rate hike off the table in month of September, but it makes it much more fraught with risks now to the labor market if inflation remains persistent.
President Trump says he'll immediately appeal a lower court's decision to pause construction of his White House ballroom now the Supreme Court might weigh in. MPR's deep shiveram has more. Trump argues the ballroom may as needed for national security. Action has been ongoing for months already, but a federal appeals court has now ruled
that the White House must pause construction until the project gets approval from Congress. Trump calls the decision unjust and says the Supreme Court should overturn the ruling entirely. Trump has repeatedly said taxpayers won't foot the bill for the ballroom, but reporting
from the Washington Post says the project is being funded by more than $300 million in taxpayer
money.
“Only indicates the ballroom and several of Trump's other construction projects in Washington”
are deeply unpopular among voters. Deepish Ivoram and PR news the White House. As the rise of AI drives the growth of new data centers, some places have used eminent domain which is the power of the government to seize private property for public use to build necessary infrastructure.
But as Cynthia Abrams from member station WPLN reports, in Nashville, city leaders are trying to use 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. Nashville Mayor Freddy O'Connell has criticized the developer. They ignored encouragement to go engage with the zoo and community.
So Nashville is now trying to prove it's 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. On Wall Street, stocks rose Friday and Treasury yields fell after the government reported
that employers unexpectedly cut 23,000 jobs last month. The SNP 500 finished the day up more than six tenths of a percent, and that beat the record high. It set on Tuesday.
The Dow was up three tenths, NASDAQ posted 1.3 percent.
This is NPR News. Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan have signed a defense treaty. The treats in attack on one of the countries is an attack on all three. Officials say the deal will solidify cooperation between the three regional powers during a time of growing security concerns.
The agreement was signed in the Saudi-Holy city of Mecca. Iran was quick to criticize the deal, saying it would not bring security to Saudi Arabia, which is faced recent attacks from Iran. A study on Puma's in Washington State shows the large cats, also called Cougars and Mountain Lions, may make roadways safer for drivers, and Piares Burley McCoy reports.
Researchers combined data from more than 500 wildlife cameras around the Olympic Peninsula. They also looked at the number of vehicle wildlife collisions and found where Puma's were most active. There were 76 percent fewer vehicle collisions with deer compared to areas with the least amount of Puma activity.
Justin Saraci at Conservation Science Partners says the Puma's are likely changing deer behavior. They're actually spending less of their time near roads. Which he thinks is so deer can avoid the open space that roads provide, which are ideal hunting grounds for ambush predators like Puma's.
Saraci says these results could add to conversations around allowing Puma's to naturally recolonize areas where they're currently popping up in the Midwest, or even reintroduction. The results appear in the journal Current Biology, Burley McCoy, and Piares News. As a prepared leave Washington for its August recess, the Senate Friday confirmed 74 people nominated by President Trump to federal service, Cameron Hamilton was confirmed to lead the
embattled federal emergency management agency. I'm Dale Wilman, and PR News. This week on Wait Wait Don't Tell me, we asked legendary Oscar and Emmy Award-winning icon Sally Field, if it was difficult to act opposite the CGI octopus in her latest film. "I really not Mary Todd, I really wasn't Mary too, William, I wasn't Tom and his mother.
This is what actors do." Don't miss our full conversation in the rest of our games, listen to the Wait Wait Don't
