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Why did the stock market rise after the disappointing jobs report?
Live from NPR News in Washington on Korovic Coleman, stocks opened higher this morning after a disappointing jobs report. NPR Scott Horsley reports the Dow Jones industrial average rose more than seventy points in early trading.
US employers added just twenty two thousand jobs last month and the unemployment rate inched up to four point three percent. The monthly report from the Labor Department shows widening cracks in the job market. Revised figures show the economy actually lost jobs in June for the first time since twenty twenty. Hiring has slowed across the board as the number of people looking for work now outpaces the number of job openings. Industries that cut jobs last month include manufacturing, construction, and oil drilling, all sectors the Trump administration has been trying to encourage. Investors are betting the weaker job market will lead the Federal Reserve to lower its benchmark interest rate when policymakers meet in less than two weeks.
Scott Horsley, MPR News, Washington.
The White House says President Trump will sign an executive order today renaming the Department of Defense to the Department of War.
What is the White House’s plan to rename the Department of Defense to the Department of War?
NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben reports.
According to that sheet, the order will authorize the department name change as a secondary title and will also allow Defense Department officials to substitute the word war into their titles. For example, the Secretary of Defense could use the title Secretary of War. In addition, the order will instruct the Secretary to recommend actions such as legislation to make the Department's name change permanent. The Department of Defense was known as the Department of War until the nineteen forties. The White House explained that the new name will quote, signal to adversaries America's readiness to wage war to secure its interests. Danielle Kurtzleben and PR News.
President Trump's public safety emergency declaration for Washington DC will expire next Wednesday. He's used it to take over the city's police force, claiming, without evidence, crime is rampant. Congress needs to vote to extend Trump's thirty day emergency order.
How is President Trump’s emergency declaration affecting Washington, D.C.’s police force?
It's not clear lawmakers will do that. The takeover of the city's police department is separate from Trump's deployment of National Guard troops in Washington DC. It's not clear when those troops might be removed. The Trump administration is suing utility Southern California Edison. This is over the utility's role in the Los Angeles area Eaton wildfire last January. Nineteen people were killed. Steve Futterman has more.
The lawsuit puts the blame directly on Southern California Edison for both the Eaton fire and the fire east of LA in twenty twenty-two. The big message today is that Edison is responsible. The acting U.S.
Why is Southern California Edison being sued over the 2023 Eaton wildfire?
attorney in Los Angeles, Billis Saley, says Edison failed to safely maintain its equipment. In the case of the Eaton fire, it's believed sparks from a transmitter triggered the blaze. So far, Edison has acknowledged only that its equipment may have been involved. For MPR News, I'm Steve Fetterman in Los Angeles.
On Wall Street the Dow's up about twenty points now. This is NPR. A third large earthquake struck Afghanistan late yesterday. The big tremors earlier this week have left more than twenty two hundred people dead. Scientists say solar flares may be more than six times hotter than previously thought. NPR's Noel Greenfield voice has more on the findings of a new analysis.
What new research reveals about the extreme temperatures of solar flares?
Solar flares are bright bursts of light on the sun that happen when magnetic energy gets released and dumped into ions and electrons. Alexander Russell is with the University of St. Andrews. He says in the past, telescopes have measured the temperature of just the electrons.
And we've kind of just assumed well the ion temperature would be the same as the electron temperature.
But new research suggests that ions get heated up a lot more strongly. And when that's taken into account, their calculations in Astrophysical Journal Letters show that solar flares could be as hot as one hundred and eighty million degrees Fahrenheit.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
Why did the stock market rise after the disappointing jobs report?
0:00–0:58
2
What is the White House’s plan to rename the Department of Defense to the Department of War?
0:58–1:58
3
How is President Trump’s emergency declaration affecting Washington, D.C.’s police force?
1:58–2:35
4
Why is Southern California Edison being sued over the 2023 Eaton wildfire?
2:35–3:19
5
What new research reveals about the extreme temperatures of solar flares?
3:19–4:10
6
Who was civil‑rights activist Joseph McNeil and why is his legacy important?
4:10–4:39