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Why did the latest jobs report miss expectations and what does it mean for the economy?
Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. Today's jobs report turns out to be worse than widely expected. The Labor Department says the economy lost twenty three thousand jobs last month. Instead of gaining what many economists expected to be around eighty thousand jobs, Mike Regan is managing editor at Bloomberg.
But really all adds up to suggest that um, you know, the labor market is pretty much softening uh uh at a at a pretty somewhat alarming rate uh here in the summer.
Mike Reakin on NPRs here and now. President Trump is once again threatening to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook over unproven allegations of mortgage fraud. The move comes just over a month after the Supreme Court blocked Trump's earlier effort to remove Cook. The way continues for the nation's High Court's ruling on whether the administration can resume carrying out key parts of the president's executive order to limit voting by mail in the midterm election.
How is President Trump targeting Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook and the USPS voting‑by‑mail order?
And Pierre's Hanzi Lo Wong reports another ruling on Trump's order may come soon from a lower court.
A federal judge in Boston is considering a request to block the US Postal Service from carrying out President Trump's directives across the country. American Civil Liberties Union Sophia Lynn Lakin help file the request.
Changing the rules of the game at this point in time in such a significant manner does nothing to ensure confidence in the election this November and would only create chaos and confusion for voters.
Trump's order calls for USPS, which is a financial supporter of NPR, to get lists of eligible voters from states and deliver mail and balance only to people on those lists. The president has said he issued this order to stop illegal voting by non US citizens, a problem that many studies have found to be extremely rare. The Supreme Court is now considering Trump's request to pause an earlier ruling that blocks implementation of the policy in the twenty three states plus Washington DC that sued over the order. Anzillawong, NPR News.
There was a mass shooting at a high school in Thailand today.
What happened in the Thailand high‑school mass shooting and how are authorities responding?
Local authorities outside Bangkok say a student killed at least five people and wounded twenty others before taking his own life. He's also accused of killing his two grandparents. The United Nations Children's Agency says at least three hundred children have been reported killed in Gaza since a ceasefire was signed nearly a year ago. And PRS Janeiraf reports that's an average of one child a day.
Israel agreed last October to suspend military operations and allow in more food and medicine. In the agreement with Hamas, UNICEF said the ceasefire was failing children and noted that hundreds more children had been injured. The Israeli military is now occupying more of the Gaza Strip with families crowded into roughly a third of the territory without adequate clean water or waste facilities. UNICEF said children there continue to face acute malnutrition and disease. A UN commission in June found that Israel had deliberately killed Palestinian children throughout the war in Gaza.
How are children in Gaza affected by the cease‑fire failure and UN reports?
And said Israel continued to fail to protect children after the ceasefire. Israel rejected the findings. Jane Araf and PR News. This is NPR.
Frustrations mountain Puerto Rico's capital San Juan and other cities, hundreds of thousands of people. Now under government-mandated water rationing, forty-eight hours on, forty-eight hours off, the result of an extreme drought weighing on the island's water system, a system that has been severely strained by decades of underinvestment in the island's aging infrastructure. In San Juan, Norma Peña is limiting her family to using only one toilet in their home to save water.
Because uh toilets take a lot of the water, most of the water. If you you know, what's that?
Why is Puerto Rico under mandatory water rationing and how are residents coping?
Four gallons every time you flush it? That's a lot of water. But again we When the crisis come You have to figure out new ways of surviving.
Benya speaking with NPR's Ajy and Florida. The Federal Communications Commission has voted to wipe away limits on how many Americans any one company can reach through the local TV stations it owns.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
Why did the latest jobs report miss expectations and what does it mean for the economy?
0:01–0:57
2
How is President Trump targeting Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook and the USPS voting‑by‑mail order?
0:57–1:51
3
What happened in the Thailand high‑school mass shooting and how are authorities responding?
1:51–2:48
4
How are children in Gaza affected by the cease‑fire failure and UN reports?
2:48–3:32
5
Why is Puerto Rico under mandatory water rationing and how are residents coping?
3:32–4:08
6
What did the FCC decide about local‑TV ownership limits and why does it matter for viewers?
4:08–4:45
7
How are families escaping the Spokane wildfires and what lessons are emerging?
4:45–5:02