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The Secretary of the Army, Dan Driscoll, has resigned after just 18 months on the job.
“He was the Army's top civilian leader and classed repeatedly with Defense Secretary Pete”
Hegg Seth, and Pierre's Greg Mayri has details. Dan Driscoll served in Iraq and became the youngest ever Army Secretary last year when he was just 38. Driscoll focused on new technologies and was sometimes called President Trump's drone guy. But there was often friction between Driscoll and Defense Secretary Hegg Seth.
Hegg Seth fired a number of top Army generals replacing them with officer scene as more aligned with the Defense Secretary. Hegg Seth also blocked promotions of black and women Army officers that Driscoll supported. Hegg Seth was close with Vice President JD Vance, and there's already been speculation that he'll be part of Vance's team if he decides to run for president.
Greg Mayri, NPR News, Washington. Data centers are key issues for many voters ahead of midterm elections. President Trump said yesterday quote, "If they want to be successful in rich with far lower taxes and jobs all over the place, let data rain." Joint base age Andrew's Vice President JD Vance defended Trump.
I think probably 99% of the backlash to data centers has come in areas where building a data center means higher utility and higher electricity for the people on the ground. So I think what these companies have to do is take advantage of some of the federal derregulatory efforts that we've undertaken.
“If you build the data center, you should be putting power back into the grid, not taking”
it out. And if that is happening, I don't think the data centers are that controversial. It's when the utility bills get so much higher, that's when it's a real problem. But critics and communities across the country warn of environmental damage, shrinking farm land, limited water supplies, and rising utility bills.
At Grand Canyon National Park Search and Rescue crews have recovered a second body downstream
in the Colorado River following severe flash flooding over the weekend. Ryan, "Hine Chuss of Member Station KNAU reports one person is still missing." The flash flooding in bright angel Creek tore through Phantom Ranch at the bottom of the canyon, destroying bridges and other infrastructure. More than 60 hikers and others were later evacuated by helicopter.
It's common for the Grand Canyon to receive intense rainfall but not in such a steep rocky area.
“Rain also fell on areas hit by last year's dragon bravo fire on the North Rim.”
Officials say that likely contributed to the severity of flooding into brief lows. In while an estimated 40 percent of the water pipeline that supplies the Park South Rim has been destroyed or damaged, overnight lodging in the park has been suspended in strict water restrictions or in place. For NPR News, I'm Ryan Heichus, in Flagstaff.
This is NPR News. The UN's World Food Program announced today that it is cutting food assistance in the
West Bank by half because of critical funding shortages.
Presently, it's a assistance surveyed about 400,000 people in the West Bank but beginning this month with the financial shortfall, it will only serve an estimated 200,000. The country director for Palestine said at a time when WFP should be scaling up assistance to reach more people, we are being forced to make difficult decisions. The AI boom in San Francisco is leading to sharp hikes in the city's home prices.
They're up 25 percent from a year ago as NPR has Jennifer Letton reports. Two AI startups inthropic and open AI are preparing to go public and that's brought a flood of wealth already with more to come. Compass Brokeridge says more than 140 homes this year sold for at least a million over asking its chief economist Mike Simonson says that will have a ripple effect.
"You can't buy in California, you gotta move to Texas, and that drives home prices up in Texas." Alex Brenner and his fiancee just endured a brutal apartment surge with rental bidding wars and long lines that open houses. "Best case scenario, there's five people there, worst case scenario, there's a line of 25." They found a place, but the price spikes give him pause about the high cost of staying in the
city long term. Jennifer Letton and Pierre News San Francisco. "Oil prices continue to climb at $92 a barrel. U.S. futures are falling the S&P index fell 0.6% the Dow declined 0.8% the Nasdaq was down 1%. You're listening to NPR News from New York." "This season on Planet Money Summer School we have drilled for oil in Norway,
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