Live from NPR News in New York City, I'm Doah Lisa Caltown.
Stocks to open makes this morning as sagging home sales take another hit, and Pierska Horsey
“reports the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose about 200 points in early trading.”
The National Association of Realtors says sales of existing homes fell by 1.7% last month, homes sales were already slumping, and rising mortgage rates are not making home buying any easier. Freddie Mac says the average rate, amount of 30-year home loan is now close to 6.7%. Meanwhile, home prices continue to climb, averaging just over $434,000 last month.
The parent company, a president, Trump's truth social platform says it lost $238 million
in the most recent quarter. The company's expansion into cryptocurrency and online gaming has not panned out, so the business plans to refocus on its social media roots. It's got worse than the NPR News, Washington. It's primary day in a handful of states, but the most watch races might be where Democrats are deciding whether they want progressives or more centers candidates to oppose Trump's
policies.
“Wisconsin Public Radio's Ania Van Wagton Donk is watching a Democratic Social-Spring”
Cheska Hong shake up the Democratic Parliament for Governor running a very grassroots volunteer
driven campaign, which is also watching neighboring Minnesota. That's where Lieutenant Governor
Peggy Flanagan is running for Senate against Representative Angie Craig. Flanagan wants Medicare for all, while Craig has backed a public option that competes with private insurance. Israel has also been a dividing line there. Flanagan speaks out much more strongly against the Israeli government, and Flanagan is endorsed by Senators Bernie Sanders, and Elizabeth Warren while Craig is backed more by centrist, and has raised more
money. In Minnesota's Republican primaries, Mike Lindell has Trump's endorsement for Governor, but the state GOP chairman has questioned his elective electability, and even his residency, he faces Speaker of the State House Lisa DeMuth, an army veteran Kendall calls. Russia's high court has barred the country's loan party advocating for an end to the war in Ukraine from standing in parliamentary elections next month.
And Paris Charles' main reports from Moscow, the decision comes to spite growing signs of fatigue with the conflict among the Russian Republic. Russia's liberal Yablika Party had been the sole political block, calling for an end to the war in Ukraine, positioned that is already led to the arrest of several prominent members. Not the entire party is banned from the September vote. After Russia's Supreme Court found
Yablika had engaged in copyright infringement and received foreign funding among other charges. Several hundred Yablika supporters, most of them younger Russians, waited outside his court deliberations dragged on for some eight hours. Yablika leader is frame the court's decision as a sign of Kremlin fear of the party. This is NPR. It's already been a record year for cyclopsparisous outbreaks. Now this
end is for disease control and prevention warns, jalapenos grown in Mexico are signing more than 300 people in 27 states with salmonella and Paris U.K. Naguchi reports. Food borne outbreaks are often under-reported in challenging for state health departments to manage. But Dr. Anne Zink, former chief medical officer for the state of Alaska,
“says cuts to federal funding of key health agencies hurt operations this year.”
Epidemiologists and team reach out to CDC regularly to understand what they're seeing in a larger context nationally, which is really important. And when those personnel are gone, the positions are unfilled. It really slows not only the reporting, but the disease investigation. The number of cyclopsparisous cases reported by Missouri shot up to nearly 1,600 recently. Michigan, the epicenter, has over 12,000 cases. Yuki Naguchi and PR News.
In Thailand, the Prime Minister has suspended their approval of firearms permits. After at least seven people were killed by a teenage boy at a school near Bangkok. Dozens were injured and some remain hospitalized from the Friday shooting. A preliminary investigation indicated that the shooter allegedly was influenced by social media content involving violence. Global stocks are mostly lower and crude prices are higher with news that very few
tankers are moving in the straight of hormones. You're listening to NPR News from New York City. 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 Appalachia are getting
sicker faster. Listen now to the Sunday story from the up first podcast on the NPR app.
