"Live from NPR News in Washington.
"The plain fact is that inflation is too high and has been for too long."
“"The rate hike will make things like auto loans and credit cards more expensive."”
"How speaker Mike Johnson has adjourned lawmakers early for their seven-week recess ahead of the November elections." "It means the House will not be forced to vote on a measure calling for the impeachment of Defense Secretary Pete Heggseth before the midterms." "Republican Congressman Thomas Massey of Kentucky introduced articles of impeachment against Heggseth this week over the war with Iran." NPR's Quill Lawrence says House lawmakers are also leaving Washington, D.C. before voting on a piece of legislation affecting US military veterans that's languished for years.
The bill would close a loophole that prevents some veterans who get VA disability benefits from also collecting full military retirement pay.
“"We've heard it. I was willing to give my life no problem for this country."”
That's Jen Nott, who saw combat in Iraq after years of waiting, she says the votes are finally there to force a vote on the bill and Congress is going home.
"It has a real world effect on myself and my family and the other veterans and their families that are involved in this." "You know, in this economy, we need our retirement." Around 50,000 veterans are affected. The bill has been blocked from a vote by fiscal hawks in the past, but advocates hope it will pass after Congress returns in November. Quill Lawrence and PR News. "Dousants of demonstrators are under arrest and Turkey after protesting the detention of LGBTQ+ activists in weekend raids.
“The government says it's protecting Turkish families as NPR's Hadeel Al-Shalci reports from Istanbul."”
Under the banner of my family is safe and initiative framed as a defense of traditional family values,
the Turkish government has rounded up and detained LGBTQ+ activists and community members. Turkish authorities broke into popular LGBTQ+ hangouts and raided activist offices across the country on Sunday. Homosexuality is not illegal in Turkey, but President Erdogan has called the LGBTQ+ community "divience" to appeal to his conservative base. Pride parades have been banned across the country. Outside the Istanbul courthouse protesters on Wednesday demanded the release of those detained and chanted slogans such as being LGBTQ+ is not a crime.
Police broke off that protest and detained many people. Hadeel Al-Shalci and PR News Istanbul. Wall Street futures are higher this morning, down futures are up more than 300 points. This is NPR News. President Trump is raising concerns about a proposal by the European Union to add Canada as an associate member. Speaking yesterday, the President threatened to enact what he called "very heavy tariffs on Europe" if the move by the EU is deemed a hostile act. President went on to call Canada a terrible trading partner for the US. In fact, Canada is one of the country's largest trading partners and accounts for hundreds of billions of dollars in bilateral trade each year.
The nominations are out for this year's Latin Grammys. NPR's Isabella Gomez Sarmiyento has more. In Latin America, folkloric music is currently all the rage and the Latin Grammys have taken notice. At a time when Latin pop is a global force, individual artists are reaching home for inspiration. The Latin Grammys ceremony will take place in Las Vegas in November. Is the bella Gomez Sarmiyento and PR News? Psychedelic pop artist Peter Max has died at the age of 88. He was known for work, expressing the optimism of the 1960s flower power movement, because of death was not given he suffered from advanced dementia.
I'm Dave Madingly NPR News in Washington. This is Deborah Tyson. The disappearance of her son, Austin, is one of the biggest missing person cases in the world. Listen to where it is Austin Tyson from NPR's embedded and BBC Radio 4 on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts.
