Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Luis Skivone.
The Secretary of the Army, Dan Driscoll, has resigned according to a U.S. official
“not authorized to speak publicly, and PR's Quill Lawrence reports that Driscoll's departure”
leaves several key Army posts empty.
Dan Driscoll is a third-generation Army veteran who saw combat in Iraq, and later attended
Yale Law School where he befriended a classmate, who is now Vice President JD Vance. Driscoll became the youngest ever Secretary of the Army at 38 when he took the post last year. He pushed to modernize military acquisitions and adapt to drone warfare. In an unusual move, Driscoll took a senior role in White House negotiations to end the war
in Ukraine. When Secretary of Defense Pete Higgs-F accidentally leaked details of military operations early in President Trump's second term, Driscoll was seen as a potential replacement to head the Pentagon, but Higgs-F stayed and increasingly clashed with Driscoll over the firings of several high-ranking Army officials.
Quill Lawrence and PR News.
“Amazon faces a new federal lawsuit over the company's advertising prices.”
It's the third suit brought by the Federal Trade Commission.
This time, focusing on how the tech company has treated brands and sellers who pay for the ads. And PR's Elena Seljuk reports. The Federal Trade Commission in 22 states are suing Amazon, they alleged that the company made tens of billions of dollars over seven years by misleading brands and sellers.
The lawsuit argues Amazon, quote, "secretly and systemically overcharged advertisers," a note that Amazon is among in PR's financial supporters. Specifically, the FTC focuses on the special options that Amazon uses to set advertising prices for what shopper sees as sponsored listings. The FTC alleges that Amazon manipulated the bidding to push up the prices.
Amazon, in response, says the lawsuit fundamentally misrepresents how its advertising works and says its platform has, in fact, saved advertisers billions of dollars. Alina Seljuk and PR News, Washington.
“Stocks fell in the last trading day of August while oil prices rose in mid-renewed tensions”
in Iran. But as NPR's Raphael Nomber reports, stocks still posted gains for the month.
A U.S. attack against two Iranian rocket launchers in the strait of Hermuz marked the first
U.S. strike against Iran in several weeks. And after the flare-up, Trump warned, quote, "We are going to hit them hard." The Dow Jones promptly fell over 370 points while the S&P and the NAS attack also declined. Meanwhile, Brent, the global benchmark for oil prices, rose above $90 a one point before slightly pairing back.
Said all three major stock indexes still posted monthly gains in August, in part after companies reported good earnings. The earnings have given some confidence to investors, though renewed tensions in the middle least post a big risk, Raphael Nom, in PR News. This is NPR News in Washington.
In New York City, the metropolitan museum of art has canceled an exhibit featuring British designer John Galliano's work over past anti-Semitic remarks, Jeff London has more. It was to be a nine-month-long celebration of Galliano's designs by the Met's Costume Institute with Galliano the honored guest at the Met Gala to kick it off. But the disapproval was immediate and fierce.
Galliano was convicted of an anti-Semitic hate crime in a French court in 2011 after two incidents at a bar in Paris in a video which circulated where he said, "I love Hitler" among other remarks. He was fired from Deorin underwent rehab. The Met's director Max Holline said, "Following thoughtful discussions with John Galliano,
we have together decided not to proceed with the exhibition. For NPR News, I'm Jeff London, in New York." Rescue crews searching the Grand Canyon have found at least two bodies, and more than a dozen others were made missing after a Saturday flash flood event near Bright Angel Canyon. The disaster struck near popular lodges and camping areas, dozens of people were evacuated
several structures, utilities, and infrastructure, including foot bridges were destroyed. At the same time, four casters are now advising that more flooding is possible. Officials barred tourists from staying at lodges and hotels inside Grand Canyon National Park, and issued emergency water restrictions for year-round residents as the only water pipeline into the canyon was damaged.
I'm Louise Skivone and PR News. 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, speak for me.
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