"Life from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor, Johnston.
Russia is stepping up its drone attacks on Keith and other Ukrainian cities.
“NPR's Joanna Kikis' reports, the strikes have triggered repeated air rate alerts, and”
have killed at least six people in the past 24 hours. For the last eight days, this sound of sirens has been constant, warning of Russian attacks.
The strikes have disrupted the first week of school.
14-year-old Victoria School of Ottawa ran to a shelter, then heard a jet-powered drone hit a nearby building. We heard that the windows break the light fell down like I could really scare it. The attacks have also disrupted public transportation, hit warehouses, and struck a Coca-Cola facility outside Kiev.
Joanna Kikis' NPR News cave. Dazel prices have hit in all-time high. The national average is now $5.85 a gallon, and P.R.'s Willarubin reports that's up more than $2 since the eve of the Iran War. "Much of our supply chain runs on diesel.
“Trucks, trains, tractors, nearly 90 percent of school buses.”
So when the price of diesel goes up, it hurts across the economy. And the price has been going up for several reasons. One, the straight of formus, not much oil is getting through. Two, countries around the world have scaled back their exports of diesel. Three, jet fuel.
The war drove up the price, so refineries made more of it, and we got less diesel.
Finally, reason four, Ukraine has been firing at Russian refineries, taking many offline.
It all adds up to a perfect storm, which could spill over into the price of food, the price of heating oil, and much of what kept shipped, which could mean an expensive few months to come. Willarubin and Pernus." The Trump administration is proposing new IRS rules that could strip private colleges
and schools of their federal tax exempt status over some race-based programs.
“Wesleyan University president Michael Roth has been an outspoken defender of the independence”
of colleges and universities. We have programs that benefit folks who need the program, and sometimes they're disproportionally students of color.
This rule for the administration is meant to frighten universities into dismantling programs
that benefits students of color. It's using the IRS to promote the ideology of the White House. The White House argues that programs involving admission, scholarships, or other benefits can amount to racial discrimination even when they're designed to promote diversity. Stocks are trading lower on Wall Street at the sour the Dow was down 373 points.
This is NPR News. The Trump administration is, again, asking the Supreme Court to allow restrictions on mail-in ballots to take effect before the November midterm elections. The appeal comes after a federal judge temporarily block President Trump's executive order. The Supreme Court has previously allowed parts of the administration's plan to move forward,
but has not ruled on whether the restrictions are legal. The court battle comes, the state's prepared to begin sending out mail ballots. After eight years of traveling through space, the European Space Agency's mission to plan at Mercury is nearing its destination, Jopalko reports. The mission is called Beppy Columbo.
It's actually made of two probes, one that will study Mercury's magnetic field, and another that will take close-up pictures of the planet's surface among other things. In order to reach Mercury, Beppy Columbo needed to fly by Earth once, Venus twice, and Mercury itself six times. During its eight-year cruise, the twin probes relied on something called the Mercury
Transfer Module for Propulsion. With that module had to be gettisoned before arrival, now that's happened. The next mission milestone comes in November when the probes will be captured by Mercury's gravity and can go into orbit. For NPR News, I'm Jopalko.
Volkswagen says it's cutting around 50,000 jobs. The German automaker says it's part of a major cost-cutting plan to counter increasing competition from China and rising US tariffs. The Dow was down 361 points on Wall Street at the South, and as decked down 117. This is MPR.
This week on the NPR politics podcast, Democratic Socialists are having a moment. What's their goal? The goal being to eventually re-align the Democratic Party to perhaps someday develop up an independent party, but we recognize that in the United States there's just a two-party system.
How Democratic Socialists are staking out political territory.
