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Catherine Marr
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Nora Rammer
In Washington, I'm Nora Rammer. President Trump's firing of the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics yesterday is raising questions on whether he's undermining the public's confidence in the non political nature of government data. He fired Erica McIntarfer after her agency released the monthly jobs report, calling it rigged. He said the figures were manipulated to hurt him. He provided no evidence of that. NPR's Scott Horsley reports. The latest figures did show the job market has slowed.
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Scott Horsley
It says the labor market is not as strong as many people thought. Employers added a lot fewer jobs than expected in July, and job gains for May and June, which had looked pretty healthy, were all but erased when the regular monthly revisions came in. Now it is important to note that the US Workforce is not growing as fast as it was a few years ago. Immigration's pretty much dried up, and with a lot of baby boomers retiring, we don't need to add as many jobs as we once did to keep pace with the population. But even with that low bar, hiring fell short in these last three months, so the unemployment rate inched up to 4.2%.
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Nora Rammer
NPR's Scott Horsley. Two families, including three children who are U.S. citizens were deported from Louisiana to Honduras earlier this year. Now they're suing ICE for allegedly violating their due process rights by deporting them without a trial. Mel Bridges of member station WRKF has more.
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Mel Bridges
The lawsuit filed by the National Immigration Project and others is on behalf of two New Orleans based Honduran mothers and their three American children, including a five year old boy undergoing treatment for kidney cancer. The families were detained in April after the mothers attended a regular ICE check in. The suit alleges the mothers were not given access to legal counsel or allowed to choose whether their children would be deported. The lawsuit says one of the mothers wanted her son to stay so he could keep receiving cancer treatment. The Trump administration has said the mothers chose to have their children deported with them. The lawsuit asks for a jury trial and relief from damages. For NPR News, I'm Mel Bridges in Baton Rouge.
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Nora Rammer
The Trump administration is canceling plans to use large swaths of federal waters for offshore wind. NPR's Julia Simon has more.
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Julia Simon
On the west, east and Gulf coasts, more than 3.5 million acres of federal waters had been designated as wind energy areas. But this week, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management officially rescinded the offshore waters that had been set aside for new wind development. President Trump has called offshore wind quote, ugly and quote, unreliable. But combined with large battery storage, offshore wind can bolster grid reliability, supply large amounts of energy and reduce pollution. Countries like the UK Denmark and China are all integrating large amounts of offshore wind into their energy grids. In the US Many offshore wind developers have paused or canceled projects since Trump's return to office. Julia Simon, NPR News.
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Nora Rammer
This is NPR News in Washington. People in a mountainous area of western Montana are being urged to stay inside today as police search for a gunman described as armed and extremely dangerous. They say a 45 year old man opened fire in a bar yesterday in the town of Anaconda. Four people were killed. The Scottish capital of Edinburgh's festival season is in full swing. Edinburgh's population nearly doubles for the month of August as artists and theatergoers visit for overlapping festivals, including the Edinburgh International Festival, Book Festival, Film Festival and the most popular Fringe Festival. NPR's Lauren Frair reports.
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Lauren Frayer
Fringe is where the Netflix stalker hit Baby Reindeer first originated. It's where Phoebe Waller Bridge first performed her fleabag show and where the 90s percussion group stomp got its start. It's called Fringe because it began nearly 80 years ago as unofficial alternative events. On the fringe of the Edinburgh International Festival, which it's now eclipsed, there are more than 3,800 shows from more than 60 countries comedy, dance, avant garde theatre, even circus performers and cabaret acts. Organizers call it the world's largest performing arts festival. They typically sell more than two and a half million tickets. Lauren Frayer, NPR News, London.
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Nora Rammer
In baseball, the Atlanta Braves play the Cincinnati Reds. Tonight in Tennessee, they'll play ball at the Bristol Motor Speedway, usually a NASCAR venue. Officials say more than 85,000 tickets have been sold. Besides the game, there's live music, a Navy Jet Flyover and an appearance by the Budweiser Clydesdale Horses. I'm Nora Ramm, NPR News.
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Nora Ramm
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