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The federal debt topped $40 trillion today, a new high-water mark that shows no sign of receding. The news comes just five months after the debt surpassed $39 trillion. The government continues to pile up debt and a rapid clip is spending outstrips revenue by more than $2 trillion a year.
The Trump administration blames the deficit on Democrats. As negotiations between the U.S. and Iran remain at a standstill, President Trump downplayed the significance of the ongoing closure of the Street of Hormuz today, saying nations are getting their oil and gas elsewhere.
People have found other alternatives, which say never thought about Texas, Alaska, Louisiana,
other places in addition, a lot of pipelines, record numbers of pipelines are being built.
“So I think the harm most rates are not going to be quite as important as it was in the”
best. Closer of the Street continues to disrupt world energy markets. The national average price for a gallon of regular gas is $4.08 before Israel and the U.S. launched the Warren February. It was $2.98.
Trump says he may reopen negotiations with Iran at some point earlier this week. He threatened to bomb U.S. ally Oman for discussing a plan to reopen the Street with Iran. Three candidates, President Trump endorsed lost in yesterday's Republican primaries in Florida and Wyoming. As NPR's a tamarkey through ports, there may be some cracks emerging in the President's
grip on the Republican party. The win rate for candidates, President Trump has endorsed remains well over 90%. But in the crowded primary field for Florida's 19th Congressional District, Trump endorsed
late and his pick came in second.
Scandal plagued Congressman Corey Mills failed in his bid for reelection in Florida's 7th Congressional District.
“Trump had endorsed him early, but in and after the fact social media post, the President”
claimed he had told Mills to drop out. In Wyoming's Republican gubernatorial primary, Trump's endorsed candidate also lost to a more moderate Republican, and it wasn't even close. Tamarkey and PR news. The course for this weekend's Indie Car Race in Washington, D.C. will take cars at top
speeds right past multiple art galleries and history museums that's raised concerns and PR's Rachel Treesman reports. The race cars will travel at up to 180 miles per hour, right past landmarks like the National Archives Building and Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum. Art historian Mary Okin worries the vibrations could harm the artifacts inside.
Independence Avenue is a 25 mile per hour zone, that's not some accidents of faith that it's a great idea to violate. Indie Car and the White House say they're following all protocols and don't expect damage. The National Gallery of Art says it ran vibration tests and is taking precautions.
That includes boarding up some outdoor sculptures, Rachel Treesman and PR news. Major U.S. stock indexes rose today, your listening to NPR news from Washington. Colombia's president Abelardo de la Espriaia is asking President Trump to suspend tariffs to help Colombia recover from last week's devastating earthquake, the 7.4 magnitude quake killed at least 312 people and injured nearly 4,000.
Family and friends of Nolan Wells are remembering him tonight on what would have been his 19th birthday. The black teenager took a boat trip with all white friends on July 4, but didn't return alive. At least Greg from the Gulf States newsroom and Mississippi Public Broadcasting reports.
The community is gathering in Beluxi tonight at Greater Saint John AME Church for a prayer rally for Wells and his family. Professor Jamal Brian of new birth missionary Baptist Church in Stonecrest, Georgia is the keynote speaker. "The emotional rollercoaster that the family and the community is on is the speedy ride
with no seatbelts. So we're coming really just to put our arms around them and they extend prayers for it."
“The family is still waiting on key details from the death investigation to be released.”
Results of a state autopsy have them ensured and an independent autopsy found Wells' cause of death to be undetermined. The NAACP has joined the family's legal team. For NPR News, I'm Elise Gregg in Jackson, Mississippi. The mission to save NASA's sinking telescope has been called off.
NASA paid catalyst space technology's $30 million to try to lift the aging swift observatory
to higher orbit. The startup says it will not attempt to capture it because of problems with controlling the rescue craft. The telescope will plunge through the atmosphere later this year. Intense solar activity caused swift to lose altitude faster than expected.
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