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What new executive order did President Trump sign affecting childhood vaccinations?
Live from MPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. President Trump has signed another executive order aimed at trying to upend the way US children are vaccinated against dangerous infectious diseases, MPR's Rob Stein reports.
Trump's new executive order calls for reducing the number of childhood vaccines recommended by the federal government. The executive order also calls for breaking up a shot that is now given as a single vaccination for measles, mumps, rubella, and chickenpox into separate shots and for the Justice Department to pressure states to reduce the number of vaccines required for school. The moves will likely be challenged. The executive order was welcomed by vaccine critics and denounced by many public health experts. Rob Stein and Pure News.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was in South Carolina Monday for a ceremony renaming joint base Charleston for the late Senator Lindsey Graham.
So my fellow Americans, it is my honor to say welcome. to joint base Lindsay Graham. May God bless the United States tonight. Thank you.
In his remarks, X Seth praised Graham, saying Graham dedicated his life to his home state of South Carolina and to the U.S. military. He also used the Trump administration's talking points about Democrats, saying the hard left declared war on the military. Senator Graham died last month. He served in the Air Force and the Air National Guard and Reserves. South Carolina, among six states holding primary elections Tuesday, the elections in Connecticut was a very strong. Wisconsin and Minnesota being closely watched because they feature clashes between progressives and the Democratic establishment. The latest primaries come a week after Progressive Abdullah Sayed narrowly defeated Democratic Congresswoman Haley Stevens in Michigan Senate primary.
Primary voters also going to the polls in Alabama and Vermont. The extreme heat across the U.S. this summer has broken records. MPR's Lauren Summer has
Temperatures were hotter than average across almost the entire lower forty-eight states in July. On average, it was three degrees hotter than normal, according to a report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. That set a new record, making it the warmest July in the US in one hundred and thirty two years of record keeping. Nighttime temperatures were also the warmest on record, which exacerbates the impacts of heat waves since things don't cool down as much. The records were most extreme in the inner mountain west. Wyoming saw its hottest month of any month recorded. That drying heat has driven up the risk of wildfires across the western US. Lauren Summer, NPR News.
The wildfires in western states have led the governor of Nevada to declare a state of emergency in Washoe County and the Reno Sparks Indian colony. Canada's British Columbia also under a state of emergency and the Canadian military has been put on standby. You're listening to NPR News. Authorities in Colombia say they are concerned about aftershocks following the powerful 7.4 earthquake that struck Monday. The Colombian Geological Survey says it has recorded more than twenty aftershocks and says more are likely. The initial quake is being called the strongest to hit Columbia this century. Hundreds of buildings were toppled. Rescuers are searching the rubble for survivors. Employees in China, displaced by artificial intelligence, have recently seen courts and arbitration panels rule in their favor, but workers remain anxious.
MPR Center for PAC reports from Beijing.
This summer, economics graduate Ilo Winwu took an internship at an AI startup in eastern China and says she was shocked. I didn't know how advanced AI was already, she says. I feel very afraid. Several courts have ruled that employers adopting AI cannot shift the burden to workers. But China and the US are locked in an AI race, says Eli Friedman, a professor of global labor and work at Cornell University.
You can't say that we want to dominate these industries in the future and then be you know start clutching your pearls.
Plus, it's tough to find a stable job in China's sluggish economy.
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