Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Luis Quivoni.
Voters and multiple states had to the polls tomorrow, including Connecticut, Vermont, Alabama,
South Carolina, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. Casting a shadow over voter considerations and some locations is the demand of technology from massive data centers. As NPR's Tamra Keith reports, it's not an easy sell. The giant windowless buildings use a lot of power and face growing bipartisan opposition.
It is able to cross a partisan coalitions in a way that a lot of other issues can't. Amanda Litman is the founder of Run for Something, which works with Democratic candidates for state and local office. People are bringing it up to them, so they really are responding to what they're hearing from voters.
“I think it is the most tangible physical representation of the threat that AI feels like it's”
making in people's lives. A recent Gallup poll found seven in 10 Americans oppose a data center being built in their community. Tamra Keith and PR News. Todd Blanche is now the 88th Attorney General of the United States and PR's Kerry Johnson
reports. Blanche took his oath and the Oval Office as President Trump watched. Blanche started his legal career as a federal prosecutor in New York, but he came to national attention, defending Donald Trump in several criminal cases after Trump finished his first term in the White House.
Blanche says he loves the Justice Department during his swearing in serum, only he pledged to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. The Senate narrowly confirmed Blanche last weekend.
“Several lawmakers worried he'd be more loyal to Trump than the rule of law, but Senator”
Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, who cast the deciding vote, said Blanche would be better able to push back on Trump if he had the backing of the full Senate. Kerry Johnson, in PR News, Washington.
At least 111 people are dead after a powerful earthquake struck Columbia rattling the
South American country. According to the US Geological Survey, the 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck Western Columbia, one could be felt as far away as Venezuela and Ecuador and PR's Kerry Con reports. The strong Quake struck early Monday morning rattling buildings and homes in the Choco region, some 150 miles west of the Columbia and capital Bogota.
The USGS at the Temblor struck at a depth of 66 miles, some 140,000 people live in Quibdo, the capital of the region. The Quake comes more than a month after two strong back to Bakker, Quake's hit neighboring Venezuela, killing more than 5,000 people in destroying hundreds of buildings. Kerry Con, in PR News, Rio de Janeiro.
“On Wall Street approaching the close that Dow was off 60 points that NASDAQ down 85, the”
S&P 500 down 4, this is NPR News in Washington. July was the hottest month on record for the contiguous United States according to the national oceanic and atmospheric administration. The average temperature was close to 77 degrees, fractionally eclipsing the decibels to lie of 1936.
The most excessive heat was registered in the mountain west, southwest northern plains and southeast with the biggest problem being that evenings have not been cooling off enough. Social media is filled with messages promoting testosterone therapy and the military recently announced it would be screening service members. Doctors say many of the online claims about testosterone do not accurately reflect
who really needs the treatment and PRs will stone reports. The symptoms of testosterone deficiency include depressed mood, fatigue, reduced libita, weight gain, and trouble concentrating. Medical guidelines specify that a man should also have two tests showing low levels over time before starting treatment.
Dr. Helen Birney, a urologist at Indiana University, says some online marketing around testosterone goes way beyond the evidence. It's not some drug to promise peak performance, this fountain of youth or this longevity. testosterone declines with age, though Birney says in younger and middle-aged men it often relates to obesity, diabetes, sleep apnea, and other medical conditions.
The Trump administration is taking steps that could make it easier to prescribe the drug to men with testosterone deficiency. Will stone and PR news. Dukes of hazard star Ben Jones has died after the show he pursued a political career serving at Congress for two terms he was 84.
I'm Louis Skivonep and PR News, Washington. 50 years ago, Congress set out to protect coal miners from black lung disease. Today it's back at rates not seen in half a century. These guys are being treated like disposable widgets, not human beings. On the Sunday story, why coal miners and apolature are getting sicker faster.
Listen now to the Sunday story from the up first podcast on the NPR app.
