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at trying to up-in the way U.S. children are vaccinated against dangerous infectious diseases.

MPR Trump's new executive order calls for reducing the number of childhood vaccines

recommended by the federal government. The executive order also calls for breaking up a shot that is now given as a single vaccination for measles, months, rebella and chickenpox into separate shots and for the justice department to pressure states to reduce the number of vaccines required for school. The moves will likely be challenged in court like previous attempts to change childhood vaccinations. The executive order was welcomed by vaccine critics and denounced

by many public health experts, Rob Stein and Pernus. "The event's secretary, Pete Heck, Seth was in South Carolina Monday for a ceremony renaming joint-based Charleston for the late Senator Lindsey Graham." "So my fellow Americans, it is my honor to say, welcome to joint-based Lindsey Graham. May God bless the United States." "Thank you."

In this remarks, Seth praised Graham saying Graham dedicated his life to his home state of

South Carolina and to the U.S. military. He also used the Trump administration's talking points about Democrats saying the hard-left declared war on the military, Senator Graham died last month. He served in the Air Force and the Air National Guard in Reserves. South Carolina among six states holding primary elections to his day. The elections in Connecticut was considered Minnesota being closely watched because a feature

clashes between progressives and the Democratic establishment. The latest primaries come a week after progressive Abdullah Sayed, narrowly defeated Democratic Congresswoman Hayley Stevens and Michigan Senate primary. Primary voters also going to the polls in Alabama and Vermont. The extreme heat across the U.S. this summer has broken records in Pierslor and

summer has more on a new report from federal forecasters. "Tepertures were hot of an average across

almost the entire lower 48 states in July. On average it was three degrees hot of a normal according to a report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. That's said a new record, making it the warmest July in the U.S. in 132 years of record keeping. Nineteen temperatures were also the warmest on record, which exacerbates the impacts of heat waves since things don't cool down as much. The records were most extreme in the Inter-Mountain West,

Wyoming side's hottest month of any month recorded. That drying heat has driven up the risk of wildfires across the western U.S. Lauren Summer and PR News. "The wildfires in western states have led the governor of Nevada to declare a state of emergency in Washington County and the Reno Sparks Indian Colony. Canada's British Columbia also under a state of emergency and the Canadian military has been put on standby. You're listening to NPR News. The authorities in Columbia say

they are concerned about aftershocks, following the powerful 7.4 earthquake that struck Monday.

The Colombian Geological Survey says it has recorded more than 20 aftershocks and says more likely. The initial quake is being called the strongest hit, Colombia. The century hundreds of buildings were toppled, rescuers are searching the rebel for survivors. Employees in China displaced by artificial intelligence have recently seen courts and arbitration panels rule in their favor, but workers remain anxious, in PR's Center for Pack reports on Beijing."

This summer, economic graduate E-Lowen Wu took an internship at an AI startup in Eastern China, and says she was shocked. "Well, but you're not at all at all. I didn't know how advanced AI was already," she said. "I feel very afraid." Several courts have ruled that employers adopting AI cannot shift the burden to workers, but China and the U.S. are locked in an AI race. Says Eli Friedman, a professor of global labor and work at Cornell University. "You can't say that we want to

dominate these industries in the future and then start clutching your pearls." Plus, it's tough to find a stable job in China's sluggish economy, Jennifer Pack and PR News Beijing. "You oil prices, steady and stocks in Asia, largely advancing amid the standoff between the U.S. and Iran. Brank crude oil, the international standard, trading just below 88 dollars per

barrel after rising 5 percent on Monday, Japan's benchmark in the K is leading the way in Asia

of 2 percent in Tuesday trading. This is MPR News." 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 U.S. podcast on the MPR App.

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