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The federal government is at with a new plan for how several states access water from
“the Colorado River for at least the next two years, as the region faces the realities”
of droughts and water restrictions. Downstream states, California, Arizona, Nevada will bear the brunt of the cuts. The administration's plan does not issue water reduction mandates for four upper-based states, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, and New Mexico. But after two years, it calls for the upstream and downstream states to hold a new
round of talks over their dispute. The Colorado River feeds lakes meet and pal the nation's two largest reservoirs now experiencing record low water levels. Gasoline prices are inching up while bond prices are moving down, and PR Scott Horsley has a roundup of what's moving financial markets.
The investors will be keeping a close eye on the bond market today.
The yield on long-term government bonds rebounded Thursday, despite an effort by the Treasury Department to push those bond yields down.
“Bondholders have been demanding a bigger payback in return for lending the government money.”
They're concerned about the size of the federal debt, which reached $40 trillion this week, as well as stubborn inflation. Gasoline prices typically fall, as summer draws to a close, but AAA says this could be the most expensive August ever at the gas pump. The average price of regular gas is just under $4.11 a gallon, topping the previous
high set back in 2022. Scott Horsley, in PR News. Washington. The Supreme Court is expected to weigh in on whether President Trump can continue construction of the White House ballroom.
lawsuit has already been argued through several lower courts after non-profit groups sued the administration, saying congressional approval was needed for the new side. Here's a PR-steepershiver on the administration is arguing that the ballroom was needed
“to create a "integrated military complex" that houses medical care, a drone port, and”
bomb shelters on the other hand, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, is saying that the executive branch doesn't have the authority to transform the White House like this even for national security purposes. And PR-steepershiver on reporting. The government of Guatemala says the U.S. has deported nearly 2,300 Mexican migrants
to Guatemala and soil, and in PR-steepershiver reports the Mexican government is worried. Normally migrants are only deported to a country that is not theirs when their home country won't take them or when it's too dangerous for them to go back. Guatemala and President Bernardo Arrivalo said that's not the case with the Mexican deportees. What the Malahi says treats them like they are in transit and they are sent to Mexico by land
within 24 hours. In a statement, Mexico said it opposes the practice, human rights groups view it as an attempt to intimidate migrants. In a statement to Reuters, the U.S. State Department said it was focused on implementing President Trump's immigration policy, and a problem in Pair News, Mexico City.
This is NPR. The world's oldest living person is celebrating her 117th birthday today. Ethel Caterom is from England, and Pierre's Fatima Alcassab has details. Ethel Caterom was born in 1909, and has lived through the Russian Revolution. The Great Depression and two-world wars.
She's the last surviving subject of King Edward VII. Fahra 116th birthday last year, she got a visit from his great-great-grandson, King Charles. According to Guinness World Records, she's also one of the oldest people to survive COVID after contracting it in 2020. She's celebrating with family and friends at a nursing home in Surrey, outside London,
and says she's looking forward to what next year might bring. Fatima Alcassab and Pierre-News London. London's high court is ordering Prince Harry, Sir Elton John and others, to make an initial
payment of the equivalent of $13 million to ward the Daily Mail's legal costs.
After they lost their privacy lawsuits against the publisher, last month the judge cited with the Daily Mail against accusations that it engaged an unlawful acts including phone hacking. Local media report Prince Harry and his wife, Megan, planned to move back to the United Kingdom with their children who are enrolled in British school in September, King Charles saw his
grandchildren in person last month for the first time in more than four years. U.S. stocks are trading higher, the sour, the Dow is up more than 400 points or nearly 1%. This is NPR News. This week on the MPR Politics podcast, the Trump administration is taking
credit for a major drop in violent crime. Murder, robbery, assault, all-down in big cities and small towns. We're going to dig into the numbers and unpack whether this is really as simple as the President claims it is on the MPR Politics podcast.
