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What happened in the Manhattan office shooting and why is it linked to football‑related brain injuries?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Nora Rahm. Investigators are learning more about the man that walked into a midtown Manhattan office building with an automatic weapon yesterday and killed four people before killing himself.
Uh agency that was located in the building and we're going to continue to uh investigate with our federal partners.
Adams was interviewed on MSNBC's Morning Joe. He said the twenty-seven year old man from Las Vegas was carrying a note saying he blamed his mental illness on playing football, and the NFL doesn't do enough to protect players from the effects of head injuries. He said police also found an additional weapon in a car that was parked outside. As Israel faces growing international calls to let more food into Gaza, it's also facing a renewed push for a two state solution. NPR's Air Patrouille reports.
How are France, Saudi Arabia and the UN addressing the push for a two‑state solution in the Israel‑Palestine conflict?
France and Saudi Arabia co-chaired a conference at the UN calling for a two-state solution. It comes after France said it will recognize the state of Palestine, joining more than a hundred countries that have already done so. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said at the conference a two state solution is more remote now than ever.
The creeping annexation of the occupied West Bank is illegal. It must stop. The wholesale destruction of Gaza is intolerable. It must stop.
But he said these grim realities are why a two-state solution is needed.
Why did the Commerce Department report a narrowing trade deficit and how might Trump‑era tariffs affect major U.S. companies?
Many countries participated in the meeting, but Israel and the U.S. did not. Israel's ambassador to the UN said the conference's organizers were engaging in discussions disconnected from reality. Ayabatrawi, NPR News.
Stonks opened higher this morning as the Commerce Department reported a drop in the nation's trade deficit last month. NPR Scott Horsley reports the market is now mixed.
The nation's trade gap narrowed in June to eighty-six billion dollars. Exports and imports both fell during the month, but imports dropped more.
What did Kim Yo‑Jong say about North Korea’s nuclear program and its relationship with the United States?
Procter and Gamble says it expects President Trump's tariffs will cost the company about a billion dollars this year. The maker of Tide Laundry Detergent and Pampers Diapers plans to raise prices as a result. The IMF has slightly raised its forecast for global economic growth, saying while tariffs are a drag on the world economy, the damage may not be as bad as feared this spring. Two of the country's big freight railroads are proposing a merger that would allow cargo to go from coast to coast on the same corporate track. Union Pacific wants to buy Norfolk Southern in a deal valued at eighty five billion dollars. Scott Horsley, MPR News, Washington.
The market remains mixed at this point. The Dow Jones industrial average is down seventeen points.
How is Utah trying to increase affordable housing and what challenges are residents facing?
The S P five hundred is up eight points. You're listening to NPR News in Washington. The sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong un says North Korea will not give up its nuclear weapons. Kim Yo Jong is believed to speak for her brother. She says North Korea's nuclear capability has sharply increased and it's not interested in talks on denuclearization. She says her brother's relationship with Trump is in her words not bad, but that can't be used to get North Korea to end its nuclear weapons program. As Americans struggle with high rent and home prices, more states are trying to force cities to build more affordable housing. NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports.
Why are 20 states and D.C. suing the USDA over SNAP data privacy concerns?
The median priced home in Utah has spiked to more than half a million dollars, which only a sliver of renters could afford, says the governor's housing advisor, Steve Waldrick. We're stopping young people from creating wealth. Utah requires cities to pick a handful of ways to encourage denser, cheaper housing, but city planners say it can be hard to convince developers, and some local officials have been voted out for supporting too much density. Renter Grace Cunningham says she may end up leaving the state. I am a young woman born and raised in Utah, and I am being priced out of my hometown. And that breaks her heart. Jennifer Lutton, NPR News, Salt Lake City.
Twenty states and the District of Columbia are suing the Agriculture Department over its demand that it be given the personal data of tens of millions of people enrolled in SNAP, the Food Assistance Program.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What happened in the Manhattan office shooting and why is it linked to football‑related brain injuries?
0:00–1:07
2
How are France, Saudi Arabia and the UN addressing the push for a two‑state solution in the Israel‑Palestine conflict?
1:07–1:42
3
Why did the Commerce Department report a narrowing trade deficit and how might Trump‑era tariffs affect major U.S. companies?
1:42–2:12
4
What did Kim Yo‑Jong say about North Korea’s nuclear program and its relationship with the United States?
2:12–2:52
5
How is Utah trying to increase affordable housing and what challenges are residents facing?
2:52–3:37
6
Why are 20 states and D.C. suing the USDA over SNAP data privacy concerns?
3:37–4:39