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What bipartisan Senate bill sanctions Russia and honors Senator Lindsey Graham?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herst. The Senate has approved a Russia sanctions bill with support from a broad bipartisan majority. And here's Claudio Gisalis reports the plan saw momentum after the bill's architect, Lindsey Graham, died last month.
Senator Graham led the push for Russia sanctions as part of an effort to end the war in Ukraine. The legislation was named in his honor as the bill's supporters saw it as a tribute to the South Carolina Republican. That includes his sister, Darlene Graham, who was appointed to serve the remainder of his term.
My late brother Lindsay was a foreign policy and national security expert. He was also a peacemaker who was determined to bring an end to the conflict in Ukraine.
It would place sanctions on top Russian leaders and top importers of Russian oil.
How is President Trump promoting a U.S. minerals superpower at the State Department?
It would also allow President Trump to place tariffs on those importers, which some democrats say unnecessarily gives Trump more power. Claudia Salis, NPR News, the Capitol.
President Trump paid a rare visit to the State Department today to talk about an issue that he calls an important matter of national security, investing in the US mining industry. And Pierce Michelle Kellaman reports he announced projects worth three billion dollars.
Mining experts and business leaders gathered at the State Department's Ben Franklin room as Trump spelled out his goals of making the US a minerals superpower.
Ensuring that America is never again reliant on hostile foreign nations for the resources our country needs to dominate in the future.
Specifically the kind of rare earth minerals and metals that are vital to high tech manufacturing. Trump also touted eighty-one million dollars in grants to the Colorado School of Mines, the South Dakota School of Mines, and the Johns Hopkins RTX Partnership. Secretary of State Marco Rubio calls it a whole of nation effort.
Why did July’s jobs report show unexpected payroll cuts and a weak unemployment rate?
Michelle Kelleman, NPR News, the State Department.
A disappointing July jobs report out this morning shows employers unexpectedly shrank payrolls. The Labor Department says employers cut twenty three thousand jobs last month and gains in the previous months were revised sharply lower.
Even healthcare, which had been a reliable source of job growth, saw weaker hiring in July than earlier in the year. Some of the losses at public schools might have been exaggerated by seasonal adjustments, but make no mistake, this was a weak report. Uh economist Cory Contenga of LinkedIn says even bars and restaurants, which hope to get a kick from the big soccer tournament this summer, instead wound up losing twenty six thousand jobs last month.
In Pierre Scott Horsley reporting, the unemployment rate dipped slightly to four point one percent because more than a quarter million job seekers gave up and dropped out of the workforce. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. About seven million more Americans are living with Alzheimer's disease, a degenerative brain condition that has no cure.
What new findings reveal how tau protein stress affects Alzheimer’s disease cells?
And Pierce Ping Wang reports on a new direction for treatments.
One of the primary markers of Alzheimer's disease is a protein called Tao in its long tangled form. New research in the journal Neuron shows that under stress, tau proteins enter mitochondria, the part of the cell that converts nutrients to energy. They reverse the process, causing the release of toxic molecules. Binghwei Liu is a professor at Stanford Medicine and senior author on the paper.
Initially we think this may actually help the organism cope with this stress, but too much of this thing would you actually kill neurons and cause this cognitive deficit.
Liu and his colleagues conducted research on flies, mice, and lab grown neurons with signs of Alzheimer's. When the scientists blocked this process, each recovered and was more resilient to future stress. Ping Huang N PR News.
How is the record‑low level of Lake Mead impacting the Colorado River basin?
The country's largest reservoir by its storage capacity hit a record low yesterday. The Bureau of Reclamation says Lake Mead's pool elevation hit a new low of one thousand forty point five feet. This has prolonged drought conditions, especially low snowpack and extreme heat, contributed to the huge declines at several Colorado river basin reservoirs this year.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What bipartisan Senate bill sanctions Russia and honors Senator Lindsey Graham?
0:00–0:49
2
How is President Trump promoting a U.S. minerals superpower at the State Department?
0:49–1:56
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Why did July’s jobs report show unexpected payroll cuts and a weak unemployment rate?
1:56–3:07
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What new findings reveal how tau protein stress affects Alzheimer’s disease cells?
3:07–3:58
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How is the record‑low level of Lake Mead impacting the Colorado River basin?
3:58–4:57