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Inflation cooled a bit last month as gasoline 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. Prices 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 two and a half 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 Horsley impure news, Washington.
“President Trump says he was following the secret services advice when he secretly switched”
planes in Turkey last month. The operation came amid alleged threats from Iran. Trump has moved off Air Force One inside a catering truck and flown out on another military aircraft. NPR's Tamariki reports the people aboard the decoy flight, including the press,
were not told the president was no longer with them.
There's always been a level of cooperation between the press and the White House
to make sure the president's movements are independently covered, including in high-risk situations. Often there are embargoes so the information isn't released until the president is safe, but Trump and his team ditched the press entirely and went to great lengths to continue the ruse long after the immediate danger passed. The Justice Department even said FBI agents to serve subpoenas at the homes of journalists who
reported on the security concerns around that flight.
“It's NPR's Tamariki reporting. Tuesday's primary elections delivered key victories and”
several closely-watch races in Minnesota's race for governor republican Lisa Demeth defeated a Trump endorsed challenger to win her party's nomination. Minnesota Public Radio's Dana Ferguson reports. Demeth faced my pillow founder and Trump endorsed candidate Mike Lindell. In businessmen Kendall Qualls, who received the Minnesota Republican Party's endorsement in May.
Demeth, Minnesota's House Speaker, campaigned on a message of fighting fraud and state government programs and of leading across divided government in a tied house. I've had the honor and responsibility of pulling Democrats and Republicans together and finding a way forward and getting things done for Minnesota. That experience has equipped me for what is next.
She will face Democrat Amy Klobuchar, the state senior senator in the general election.
“For NPR News, I'm Dana Ferguson in St. Paul.”
It was ining to NPR News from Washington. TechGiant meta is going on trial in California today over claims that Facebook and Instagram harm young users. The lawsuit was brought by 29 state attorneys general. The state's accuse meta of designing its platforms to keep children hooked while misleading the public about their safety. Meta denies wrongdoing and says it has taken steps to protect young
users. Researchers have used the largest and most powerful solar telescope to see the surface of the sun in stunning new detail. NPR's already Daniel reports. The new images reveal world pools of plasma, a boiling brew of hot and magnetized charged particles. Friedrich Vuger is a solar physicist at the National Solar Observatory. It was completely mind-blowing when we first saw this. Vuger and his colleagues noticed that when
different layers of plasma move past one another at different speeds, they generate subtle disturbances that grow into large swirling vortices. This turbulence occurs on the edges of magnetic features on the solar surface which are pretty much everywhere. These vortices may help fuel explosive solar events that influence space weather and can impact satellites and power grids. Ouridenial NPR News. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York says Americans
owe more money and are falling further behind on their bills. Credit card balances climbed by
21 billion dollars during the second quarter to $1.2 trillion. Just below the record said last year.
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