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Why did NATO scramble fighter jets to intercept Russian drones over Poland?
Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. NATO held an emergency meeting today to discuss the Russian drones that entered Polish airspace in Prompting NATO fighter jets to shoot them down. NPR's Rob Schmitz with the latest
was the first time in the history of NATO that Alliance Fighter Jets had engaged enemy aircraft in allied airspace, and it came the same night Russia launched a large scale missile and drone attack on Ukraine. German defense minister Boris Pastoria says the drones were deliberately set on their course into Poland. And were armed with ammunition. NATO Secretary General Mark Ruta told reporters the incursion only reinforces the importance of NATO and of the need for Europe to build its defenses. Russia's defense ministry said it did not target Poland. Rapschmidt's and Pierre News, Berlin.
How are the Houthis and Hamas influencing the conflict in the Middle East?
Hooti rebels in Yemen say Israeli forces attack the capital, Sana. The Iran backed Houthis are aligned with Gaza's Hamas in their war with Israel. In an attempt to kill Hamas leaders, Israel launched an airstrike on a Hamas meeting in Doha Qatar yesterday. Several people were killed. The Trump administration condemned the attack in Saikatar, which, like Israel, is also an important US ally. NASA scientists say rock formed billions of years ago from sediment on the bottom of a lake contains possible signs of ancient microbial life on Mars. Acting NASA administrator Sean Duffy said during a news conference that the space agencies scientists study the data for a year and quote cannot find another explanation.
NASA released an image of reddish rock bearing ring shaped features, they resemble leopard spots and have dark poppy seed like marks. Scientists say they still need to conduct more analysis preferably in labs on Earth before they reach any conclusions.
What evidence did NASA find that suggests possible ancient microbial life on Mars?
The Inspector General of the Labor Department has launched a review of the way the government gathers and reports some key economic figures. NPR Scott Horsley reports the review comes a little over a month after President Trump fired the leader of the department's number-crunching bureau.
In a memo announcing the audit, Assistant Inspector General Laura Nicolosi says her team plans to focus on the challenges the government faces in collecting the data behind the monthly inflation and jobs reports and ways those challenges might be mitigated. The department's acknowledged that it's conducting fewer price checks for its inflation reports, largely because of staffing cuts made by the Trump administration. President Trump has also criticized the government thumber crunchers after big downward revisions in the monthly jobs reports. Revised figures released last week show the U.S. economy lost jobs in June for the first time since the pandemic winter of twenty twenty. Scott Horsley, Impair News, Washington.
At the last check on Wall Street, the Dow was down more than two hundred points or roughly half a percent at forty five thousand four hundred and eighty eight.
Why is the Labor Department’s Inspector General reviewing how inflation and jobs data are collected?
This is NPR News. Nearly one in five children younger than thirteen years of age says that They're spending up to four hours every day on social media. NPR's Ritu Chatterjee reports that's According to a new study by the digital security company Aura.
Researchers at Aura looked at data of phone use among eight to seventeen year olds who have the company's software on their phones. Prolonged use of social media by those 13 and under suggests kids either override age verification or use social media excessively with parental consent. They also found that many kids start their mornings by checking their phones repeatedly. Psychologist Scott Collins, chief medical officer of Aura, says use of AI chatbots is common among teens.
How is excessive social‑media use affecting children under 13, according to new research?
The average message length is ten or twelve times longer than the message length that they're just sending a text message to their parent or their friend or even on Snapchat.
He says more than thirty-six percent of these conversations involve sexually explicit or romantic scenarios. Read through Chatterjee and PR News.
Three Division One men's basketball players have permanently lost their eligibility after the NCAA found the student athletes.
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Chapters
5 chapters
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Why did NATO scramble fighter jets to intercept Russian drones over Poland?
0:01–0:51
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How are the Houthis and Hamas influencing the conflict in the Middle East?
0:51–1:55
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What evidence did NASA find that suggests possible ancient microbial life on Mars?
1:55–2:57
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Why is the Labor Department’s Inspector General reviewing how inflation and jobs data are collected?
2:57–3:46
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How is excessive social‑media use affecting children under 13, according to new research?
3:46–4:38