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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dan Ronan. A heat wave is impacting many parts of the United States this July 4th. NPR's Sidney Lupkin reports. Hospitals are preparing for an increase in visits to emergency rooms.
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In this past week, Dr. Ryan Stanton has seen two golfers, two gardeners, an airport worker and a couple of construction workers in his Lexington, Kentucky, ER with heat related illness.
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It's been a little bit of everybody and I know everybody wants to get out there and enjoy this, this time of year, but boy, it is if it were a dry heat and maybe a little bit better, but it is not in most of the country. It is a wet human blanket.
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Stanton is the president elect of the American College of Emergency Physicians. He says humidity makes it harder for our bodies to handle the heat. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, you can protect yourself by staying in air conditioning as much as possible and drinking plenty of fluids. If someone around you is experiencing severe overheating called heatstroke, call 911. Sidney Lupkin, NPR News.
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Ukraine launched another wave of drone attacks against Russia overnight. This is Moscow and Kyiv offered competing claims over whose forces are holding a key eastern Ukrainian city. NPR's Charles mainnes reports.
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The governor of Russia's former imperial capital, St. Petersburg, said city air defenses had fended off a large scale Ukrainian drone attack even as he reported damage to the city's main oil terminal and a nearby port. Russia's Defense Ministry said Ukraine fired nearly 400 drones into some 18 regions of Russia and its occupied territories in all. Meanwhile, on the front lines, Russia's top brass informed President Vladimir Putin its troops that seize the eastern Ukrainian city of Konstantinovka, an outpost long sought by the Kremlin in its quest to take the entirety of Ukraine's eastern Donbas region. Yet Zelenskyy later called that claim a Russian lie and said said Ukrainian forces remain in the city. Charles Baines, NPR News, Moscow.
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It was a short week on Wall street ahead of the long holiday weekend. NPR's Scott Horsley reports.
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Speaking at a gathering of central bankers in Portugal Wednesday, Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh renewed his pledge to bring inflation under control after a downbeat jobs report on Thursday. Investors are less concerned the Fed will raise interest rates when policymakers meet later this month. The report showed US employers added just 57,000 jobs in, and job gains for April and May were also revised lower. The unemployment rate fell last month, but only because more than 700,000 people dropped out of the workforce for the week. The S&P 500 index climbed 134-percent. The Dow rose nearly 2% and the Nasdaq jumped 2.1%. Scott Horsley, NPR News, Washington.
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President Trump Friday pardoned 11 people, including a one time business partner of former D.C. lobbyist Jack Aberhoff. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. After months of speculation, Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are officially married. NPR's Vanessa Romo has more on the marriage.
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The pop icon and the super bowl winning player, both 36, tied the knot on Friday in New York after three years of dating. Swift's publicist, Tree Payne, confirmed the couple wed, telling NPR that the ceremony was officiated by comedian Adam Sandler. Payne added that there were neither bridesmaids nor groomsmen, and instead, Swift's brother Austin served as Taylor's man of honor and Kelsey's brother Jason was the best man. Photos of the event have yet to be released, but the singer's publicist says the couple was dressed in Christian Dior Haute Couture designed by creative director Jonathan Anderson. Swift was bejeweled in Cartier. Security around the multi day event has been intense, so it's unclear if the wedding was charming, if a little gauche. But the night before the ceremony, the 20,000 person stadium where the Associated Press says the wedding took place place was bathed in a lavender haze. Vanessa Romo, NPR News.
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Three people died. Seven others were rescued when storms blew through southern Wisconsin, causing a boat to capsize on Lake Geneva. The lake is a popular tourist destination for people from the Chicago and Milwaukee area. Stock traders Monday will have another option when it comes to where to place their money. The Dallas based Texas Stock Exchange officially opens this to try to beat a competitor to the New York Stock Exchange in the nasdaq. State leaders say they hope the exchange will help solidify the Dallas area's attempt to become a national financial hub as well as boost the Texas economy. This is NPR.
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