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USS Abraham Lincoln are now on their way home.
“The military says another ship is in the region to provide relief, family members report”
deteriorating conditions, including suicide attempts, and Paris Cadya Riddle reports. The military has not confirmed reports of suicide, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the media has exaggerated the hardships the crew is enduring, but experts who have worked on these kinds of missions, saying nine months at sea, even in the best of conditions is difficult.
Dr. Philip Hunt was for years in Navy Physician, he says the treatment of these sailors and Marines is unacceptable. To do that to people who have dedicated, they put their lives on the line, and it took a nose. We all took the same nose.
It's just almost brings you to tears.
The return journey home for the aircraft carrier will take a month, Cadya Riddle and PR News. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, more than 5,000 people have contracted Ebola in the past three months, almost half of them have died, but health officials with the Africa CDC say current numbers only capture about 40% of the outbreak, and PR's Durie Baskaran
reports. More than half of deaths are still happening outside of designated Ebola treatment centers, including in general hospitals where the virus can be passed to health workers and other patients. Mercy Kang, an epidemiologist for the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, says
"This suggests the outbreak is much larger than the official numbers.
“If you have to look at the real bloodin, we should be over 10,000 to 15,000 cases.”
But again, these are estimates, these are more or less models." Clinical trials are ongoing for vaccines and treatments for this strain of Ebola. Officials plan to deploy 70,000 doses of a previous vaccine for another Ebola strain in the meantime. Jerry Baskaran and PR News, Washington.
Chairs of Walmart fell this morning after the company reported slower sales growth in the latest quarter compared to what Wall Street analysts had expected. The retail giant also set a cautious forecast for the rest of the year, and PR's Elina Selju reports. To be clear, Walmart's sales are growing, they're up 2.6% in the U.S., but for the first
time in several years, this growth came in lower than Wall Street expected. Walmart's sales historically beat expectations. Much of the growth in the latest quarter came from online sales, fueled by Walmart's growing advertising business.
“One bit culprit that dampened sales, the company said, was a change to regulations on”
how pharmacies charge for drugs. Shoppers still visited about as often as they did a year before, but this time, they spent less on average per purchase.
Walmart also says it's received nearly $3 billion in tariff refunds, and has been putting
some of that toward lowering prices on thousands of items. Elina Selju and PR News rising oil prices worries about high inflation in the U.S. Governance debt led the U.S. stock market to its worst loss in three weeks today. The Dow dropped more than one and a quarter percent, the S&P 500 fell more than three quarters of a percent.
It's NPR. Quebec's premier says Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney had answered many of her questions about an emerging candidate U.S. trade agreement, but she stopped short of endorsing the deal while the province assesses its impact. Christine Freshet said yesterday that the negotiations were far from over, and that Quebec
alone would decide whether U.S. alcohol returns to government runs stores in Quebec. She now says that Carney had provided answers. There have been more than 50 heat wave days recorded in France this year, and all time record, and PR's Eleanor Beardsley reports the five back-to-back heat waves that started in the spring lasted 52 days.
The previous standout year, 2022, saw three separate heat waves, but their combined duration was 20 days shorter than this year's total. Additionally, the last heat wave that began July, 23rd and just ended is the longest single-one-on record, beating the previous record-holding scorcher from 1983. Two-thirds of Europeans were affected by extreme heat this summer, with heat records broken
in France, Italy, Spain, and Great Britain. French health authorities say the sweltering conditions this summer caused more than 7,300 excess deaths, Eleanor Beardsley and PR news, Paris. As semi-truck sent a truckload of squid, spilling into a road island roadway last weekend, leaving a stench as they sat in the road for hours in the summer heat, the trailer fully
loaded with squid overturned on its side while the truck was making a turn and blocked all lanes of the road. Local authorities are calling it the squid pocklips of 26th, authorities said the incident occurred on Sunday, and that the squid sat in the sun for hours. This is NPR.
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