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Ice officers may soon be outfitted with gloves that deliver electric shocks to people
“they deem to be aggressive, from member station W.E.K.U. Shepherd Snyder reports.”
Ice plans to spend up to $20 million on generated low output voltage emitters were gloves
for short. That's according to an online notice published by the Department of Homeland Security. The technology is manufactured by complaint technologies LLC based in Lexington, Kentucky, according to an online manual the gloves are applied directly to the skin in order to deliver shocks.
They're already used by some jails and police departments. The ACLU and other civil rights groups have spoken out against the technology. Ice has been heavily criticized for its use of force, including multiple fatal shootings emit a federal immigration crackdown. For NPR News, I'm Shepherd Snyder in Lexington, Kentucky.
The Treasury Department says that refunded another $30 billion out of $ 115 billion total worth of tariffs last month, Supreme Court ruled against how the administration was collecting the customs duties as NPR's Emily Fang reports.
“Tariffs are a key part of President Trump's economic toolkit, but by the end of last month,”
the U.S. had refunded a good chunk of them.
$15 billion out of the approximately $166 billion in tariffs wrongfully collected under an
interpretation of trade law, the Supreme Court struck down this February. The Trump administration then rolled out a new round of tariffs on about 60 countries last month, which it alleged were exporting some goods made with forced labor. But earlier this month, the coalition of 25 U.S. states sued the administration over those new tariffs, arguing they are an attempt to simply replace the customs duties already struck
down. Emily Fang and Pernus, Washington. Inflation cooled a bit last month as gas and grocery prices fell, and Pernus Scott Horsey 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. Prices rose just a tenth of a percent between June and July, rising rents and air fares during the month were partially offset by falling prices for gasoline and groceries. In 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, easing inflation will be welcome news for the Federal Reserve, the Central Bank is promised to bring price hikes under control. Scott Horsey and Pernus, Washington. The search for survivors in the rubble of Colombia's powerful earthquake is growing more desperate, more than 250 people have died, the devastation is testing Colombia's new president
as he scrambles to ensure aid makes it to the vulnerable communities most affected by Monday's quake and more than 100 aftershocks. This is NPR News from Washington. The U.S. military is on track to pull all its forces out of Iraq by the end of September, marking the end of a presence that started in 2003, Washington and Baghdad agreed in 2024
to wind down operations against the Islamic State Group. U.S. troops pulled out of most areas last year, but maintained a presence in the northern Kurdish region. Millions of people in Europe stepped outside this evening to watch a spectacular sunset with a solar eclipse, the path of totality passed through portions of Greenland, Iceland
in Spain where Alexis Marshall takes us now. In a tiny Galician town, hundreds of locals and visitors filled the streets to view this rare astronomical event. Bill Courtney of Michigan traveled all the way here with his college buddies to be in the path of totality.
This is his fourth total solar eclipse. It's a very special bit of geometry that allows for that spectacle to take place. This was the Spanish mainland's first total solar eclipse in more than a century, but another one is coming next year. For NPR News, I'm Alexis Marshall in O'Kaubble, Spain.
A giant replica of the legendary "Husier Cabinet" has been unveiled outdoors in a northern Indiana town. Husier cabinets were popular in the 1890s through 1930s, their free-standing kitchen work stations and storage areas that centralized and sped up food preparation in the home. It's the 150th anniversary of the company that made them more than a century ago.
Husier cabinets waned after World War II as built-in cabinetry became the norm. It's NPR. Attention! A PSA from "Shorewave" and "Pier Science" podcast.
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