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The U.S. economy grew at an annual rate of 1.5% in the second quarter that's down from
“2.1% growth in the first three months of the year.”
The latest report from the Commerce Department says consumer spending, investment, and exports helped drive the increase. Senator Darlin Graham of South Carolina is celebrating a win in the state's Republican Senate runoff. She defeated Congressman Ralph Norman, and will be the party's nominee in November.
Louis Alfredo Garcia with South Carolina Public Radio reports. Senator Darlin Graham defeats Congressman Ralph Norman in a special runoff election. Norman is a member of the House Freedom Caucus. Graham had the backing of President Donald Trump and several established lawmakers throughout
the state, but she was criticized for her lack of political experience.
She says in an election night speech that the party now needs to focus on winning in November. Tonight is a great victory, but it's not the finish line.
“In fact, it is the starting line for an even bigger fight which lies ahead.”
Graham will face democratic nominee pediatrician Annie Andrews in the November General election. For NPR News, I'm Louis Alfredo Garcia in Columbia, South Carolina. The trade fight between the U.S. and Canada is ramping up again after President Trump and post deep new tariffs on Canadian goods.
In return, Canada announced duties on American products, including steel, aluminum, furniture, and clothing.
Arizona Senator Rubin Gaiego says the tariffs will raise prices for American consumers.
"We're not going to be able to create new aluminum plants overnight to re-enend up seeing more and more costs of all the things that have in contain aluminum are going to be going into that." Trump says Canada has been taking advantage of the U.S. for decades calling the country difficult. A student across the country head back to school, cyber criminals are targeting teachers,
students and parents. NPR's Jenna McLaughlin reports, some scams are offering money or education tools, but instead collecting personal information. Cyber security researchers from anti-virus company bit defender are tracking back to school theme scams, targeting anxious families and educators getting ready for the new school year.
According to the research, these particular text messaging scam campaigns are particularly prevalent in states including Florida, Texas, Georgia, and California. The cyber criminals are promising grant money, free laptops, scholarships, and financial aid, with no payment required, and none of it is real. They're even taking advantage of students growing use of AI to try and lure them with
fake premium subscriptions to tools to help them study or take notes. Hackers are taking advantage of the stress around the cost of education to steal personal information. Jen McLaughlin, NPR News This is NPR.
For years, researchers have known about the link between repeated head impacts and football, and the degenerative brain disease, CTE, NPR's Becky Sullivan reports a new study shows at least one in four former players who died between 2016 and 2021 had it. That 25% number that quarter is the percentage of players who had been definitively diagnosed by these researchers with CTE, and so the true number they suggested would be higher because
there are some people with the CTE diagnosis outside of that brain bank, for example, and then also just plenty of suspected cases that weren't ever autopsy this way. That's NPR's Becky Sullivan reporting. Ice has recorded nearly 50,000 arrests in July. As NPR's Vanessa Romo reports, that's the highest monthly arrest total in the agency's history. The surgeon arrest averages out to nearly 1,600 apprehensions a day.
It tops June's record-breaking number of arrests by 15%. That's based on government data provided by ice to the deportation data project at UC Berkeley and UCLA. The project's co-director, Graham Blair, says the uptick is due to a change in tactics. Clearly, they're expanding the ways that they're arresting people at airports. In ice check-ins at immigration court houses.
There also notes that the latest figures include the initial wave of arrests of Haitian immigrants, whose temporary protected status was revoked in July. Last month's numbers were fueled by billions in immigration enforcement funding from Congress. Vanessa Romo and PR news. Nine wins for Johnston and PR news in Washington.
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