Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Kristen Wright.
Inflation cooled a bit last month as gas and grocery prices fell, and P.R. Scott
“Horsley reports on the latest cost of living figures from the Labor Department.”
Consumer prices in July were up 3.4 percent from a year ago.
That's a slightly smaller annual increase in the month before. This rose just a tenth of a percent between June and July, rising rents and air fairs during the month were partially offset by falling prices for gasoline and groceries. Gasoline prices are still much higher than they were a year ago. Electricity prices are also climbing faster than overall inflation. Stripping out volatile food and energy prices, core inflation was 2.5 percent over the last 12 months.
Facing inflation will be welcome news for the Federal Reserve, the central bank is promised to bring price hikes under control. Scott Horsley and P.R. News, Washington. The results of the latest round of primary elections are mixed. In Minnesota, Democrats back the more progressive candidate in the U.S. Senate race. Clay Masters from Minnesota Public Radio says immigration has been a key issue there.
The state's lieutenant governor Peggy Flanagan, she won the race between her and Congresswoman Angie Craig, was really centered around President Trump's immigration crackdown this past winter here.
“That's what you heard a lot from in the ads.”
There was more than 3,000 federal agents that aimed at deporting undocumented immigrants that came to the state.
Last winter, ultimately led to the fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretty.
Flanagan recently regularly went after Craig during the primary for a vote she made in Congress, backing a GOP back to immigration bill. Craig said she regretted that vote. Flanagan will face Republican and former sports journalist Michelle Tafoya in November. If elected, Flanagan would be the first Native American woman to serve in the Senate. President Trump took a secret flight out of Turkey last month after Israel warned the U.S.
of an Iranian threat against Air Force One. And PR's Daniel Estrin reports that's according to a person familiar with the matter. Israel had intelligence of a possible threat of Iranian missiles toward Air Force One and shared that intelligence with the U.S. According to a person briefed on the matter, not authorized to speak publicly. The warning prompted Trump to be secretly flown out of Turkey on a different plane, Air Force One flew separately.
That news was first reported by the Washington Post.
“When asked about it late Tuesday, Trump said he was following instructions from the Secret Service.”
This comes amid rising tensions between the U.S. and Iran with no progress toward reopening the Strait of Hormuz. Daniel Estrin and PR News, Tel Aviv. The death toll from Monday's earthquake in Colombia has risen to more than 250 people. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. Europe is experiencing a rare solar eclipse today.
A partial eclipse is visible in the United Kingdom this hour. But there's a shortage of special glasses to view it, as NPR's Lauren Freyer reports from London. Even the U.S. Royal Observatory is sold out of eclipse glasses, citing unprecedented demands. I work in a toy shop, and last night we had people over and over. Have you gone in glasses? Have you gone in glasses? No!
I'm in a line of 100 or so people in a tube station in London where a bakery has gotten their hands on some eclipse glasses. They're rationing them to per person. I've been calling out 40 places this morning trying to find somewhere to sell in them. Tierra Jackson is here with her little brother. And he has autism to his faces as something that he's really interested in. So hopefully we're going to find the glasses in the tomorrows.
Parts of the country will see up to 96% totality. Here in London it'll be around 91% if it's not too cloudy. Lauren Freyer and PR News, London. A partial eclipse will also be visible in parts of the northern and eastern U.S. this afternoon. Drug maker Eli Lilly has filed multiple lawsuits against companies.
It says are illegally selling black market versions of its experimental obesity drug read a true chat. Lilly says the drug is still in clinical trials and hasn't been approved by regulators for human use. Compounding pharmacies, medicine laws and online sellers are named in the lawsuits. I'm Christian Wright and PR News from Washington. Support one of here this podcast without sponsor bricks.
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