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Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Sang. Президен Трам сейс Рус новин Септембор то комиссию Україна and санкція. He's now giving President Vladimir Putin less than two weeks. Trump announced the new timeline to reporters today from his golf resort in Scotland where he's been Mixing presidential business with rounds of golf as supporters and protesters appeared near the Turnbury grounds. It's where he shook hands with EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen over the weekend to seal a trade deal. And Pierre's Marie Aspen has more on that.
President Trump says the United States has agreed to impose new taxes of fifteen percent on imports from the European Union. Details remain sparse, but investors are relieved that these tariffs aren't as high as the thirty percent Trump had previously threatened. Now Wall Street is watching for other trade deals ahead of the president's Friday deadline to reach such agreements with dozens of countries. There's plenty going on at home this week, as Amazon, Apple, and more than 150 big companies report quarterly earnings. The Federal Reserve also meets and is widely expected to hold interest rates steady, despite Trump's ongoing pressure to lower them. Maria Aspen, NPR News, New York.
Israel's paused its attacks on Gaza to allow aid to get in. But despite widespread reporting, including NPRs, the government is still denying people across the Palestinian Enclave are starving. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Hamas is spinning lies. But in Scotland today, President Trump said the images of starving children on TV look real to him. Aid groups and news organizations have independently confirmed video of women, men and children Queuing with empty pots or bowls at food distribution sites. Risking a repeat of Israeli military gunfire, fights among themselves for the limited food and possible death. The Wall Street Journal reports Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Is preparing to fire members of a panel responsible for guidelines on primary care.
And PRS Ping Wang says medical groups are expressing concern
the members of the US Preventive Services Task Force have backgrounds in medicine, research, and public health. Its sixteen members make recommendations for primary care doctors on how to screen, advise, and treat their patients. Dr. Bobby Mukamala, president of the American Medical Association, says if they get dismissed, it's likely to affect the quality of the guidance.
That's just fundamentally not how we should treat the science of screening people for things like cancer, for things like diabetes, for things like cardiology issues.
Earlier this month, the AMA, along with more than a hundred health organizations, signed a letter to members of Congress urging them to protect the integrity of this group. Ping Huang NPR News.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is up twenty eight points at last check at forty four thousand nine hundred thirty three. It's NPR news. Two major factions are competing for control of Sudan. A new coalition is challenging the military backed government's rule. The group, led by the rapid support forces, announced it was forming
How is President Trump reshaping U.S. trade policy with the EU?
A parallel government which Sudan's foreign ministry promptly dismissed. Sudan's troops and paramilitary troops have been at war for more than two years as a result of a feud between opposing generals who Their conflict has killed tens of thousands of people and displaced millions more. The US heat wave engulfing the southeastern region is expected to intensify this week. Areas including Nashville, Tennessee, are bracing for record-breaking temps. Fans of shooting stars or meteors might want to look for them Tuesday night going into Wednesday morning. NPR's Nell Greenfield Voice reports that's when a couple of micro
Minor meteor showers will be at their peak. The summertime meteor shower that gets the most attention is the Perseids. But this year, when the Perseid meteor shower peaks in mid-August, the moon will be almost full, and that bright glare will make it really hard to see shooting stars.
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