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The Republican Party is out with a schedule for a two-day midterm convention, its holding
next month in Dallas.
“His NPR's Tamry Keith reports, a lot of the focus is on President Trump."”
Midterm conventions aren't really a thing in modern American politics, but the Republican Party is trying something a little unconventional to excite its voters in a year when the president and his policies are deeply unpopular. Our Encee Chairman Joe Grooters has taken to calling it a Trump-apalusa. In the schedule of events released this week, Trump takes center stage.
He will be there both nights with the speaking role to close things out. Vice President J.D. Vance will take the prime time slot the first night, and there will also be numerous presentations driving home the GOP midterm message about tax cuts, public safety, and immigration enforcement. Tamry Keith and PR News.
Tech giant meta will soon put new limits on how kids use Instagram and Facebook as part
of its $17 billion settlement with the coalition of states.
Users under 18 will face a two-hour daily limit with mandatory breaks during long stretches of scrolling. The platforms will disable visible, light counts and restrict some beauty filters for younger users. Colorado Attorney General Phil Wiser, who argued for the plaintiff, says meta will also
have to do more to verify user's ages. Kids under 13, they're not allowed to join Instagram or be marketed to without parents consenting. And if kids are currently wanting to be on Instagram, it's been really easy because you put in your actual birthday and they say you can't join.
So then people get the memo. They put in a different day and they join. There's been a lot of ways in which Instagram has been well aware. This is happening and kids under 13 are on the platform. That's going to stop.
The settlement will also include independent audits to measure whether the new safeguards are working. The US is really war on air run is hitting economies across the Gulf, including Dubai, where tourism and air travel have fallen sharply. And PRs, a Batralli reports.
Dubai International Airport, the world's busiest last year for international transit, says it recorded a more than 30% drop in passenger numbers in the second quarter of 2026 compared to the same period last year.
“Travel and tourism are key pillars of Dubai's economy and, seen as a bell weather for the”
Emirates financial health. Its international airport says cargo volume also fell by a third between April and June. Hotels across the United Arab Emirates were largely void of tourists during several months of the war as Iran fired some 2700 drones and missiles at the country, sparking fires at Dubai airport and grounding flights.
But Dubai says passenger numbers have steadily picked up from around 3.5 million in April
to 5 million in June, Ayabatrawee and Pyrenees, Dubai. This is NPR News. And military judge has set a June 2028 trial date for college-shake Muhammad and three other men accused of plotting the September 11 terrorist attacks. The long-delayed case at Guantanamo Bay has been tied up for years over evidence and
interrogations and proposed plea deals. Therefore defendants could face the death penalty if convicted. Experts are divided over a Trump administration plan to roll back a key radiation safety guideline. NPR's Jeff Rumfield has more.
U.S. regulators require industry to keep radiation exposure, quote, "as low is reasonably achievable, but now they want to do away with that wording." Emily Kaffrey, a health physicist at the University of Alabama Birmingham, says it makes sense.
“"Reasonable is too loosey, Goosey, how do I regulate reasonable?”
What I think is reasonable is not what my regulator thinks is reasonable." Instead, regulators will use a set dose limit. But Edwin Lyman with the Union of Concerned Scientists warns without a mandate to lower radiation exposure as much as possible. "Ration workers and members of a public could be exposed to higher doses of radiation."
The Trump administration has called for the change as part of a push to increase nuclear output for data centers and AI, Jeff Brumfield and PR News. General Mills said that it's removed artificial colors from all of its U.S. cereals, including lucky charms and tricks. The company is replacing them with colors from sources, including fruits, vegetables, and
spices. General Mills says a plan to remove synthetic colors from the rest of its U.S. retail products by the end of next year. This is NPR. This season on Planet Money Summer School, we have drilled for oil in Norway, we've smuggled
products in the North Korea, and now we make it to our seventh continent, Antarctica. "That's right. Big for me." Mr. Penguin's big name. "I have another sound of Antarctica.
That's a reporter trying to interview a penguin. We'll explain on Planet Money Summer School. Listen on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts."
