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NPR recognized two Trump marketing campaign staffers concerned in an altercation at Arlington Nationwide Cemetery final week. They, in keeping with a supply, are deputy marketing campaign supervisor Justin Caporale and Michel Picard, a member of Trump’s advance staff. These staffers had a verbal and bodily confrontation with a cemetery official who tried to cease them from taking photographs and movies in Part 60, a restricted space the place many casualties of Iraq and Afghanistan are buried. The Trump marketing campaign and the US Military acknowledged the incident, however this week, Trump insisted it did not happen in any respect.
Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump seems on throughout a wreath laying ceremony on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington Nationwide Cemetery on August 26, 2024 in Arlington, Virginia.
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- 🎧 Former President Donald Trump acknowledged earlier this on Reality Social that there was no battle or combating on the cemetery and it was a made up story, NPR’s Stephen Fowler tells Up First. Trump then reiterated the false assertion that nothing occurred on Sean Hannity’s radio present. This comes after his marketing campaign accused the Arlington staffer of getting a psychological well being episode when the story first broke. Recently, there’s been a number of examples of Trump saying one thing that contradicts the marketing campaign’s official stance like Florida’s abortion entry measure, which he appeared to assist, then had no place, then opposed it.
The daddy of the 14-year-old who’s accused of killing 4 folks and injuring 9 others at Apalachee Excessive College in Georgia now faces felony expenses. The Georgia Bureau of Investigations introduced Colin Grey, 54, was arrested on expenses of 4 counts of involuntary manslaughter, two counts of second-degree homicide, and eight counts of cruelty to kids. The fees stem from him allegedly “knowingly allowing” his son to have a weapon. Investigators are specializing in how the alleged shooter, who’s due in court docket at this time, had entry to the firearm.
- 🎧 WABE’s Sam Gringlas says the fees had been introduced as a vigil was happening close by Thursday night time. Georgia lawmakers additionally held a scheduled listening to on secure firearm storage yesterday the place folks inspired state lawmakers to take motion, like incentivizing using gun safes and making it a felony offense when mother and father don’t lock up weapons. These proposals stalled within the Republican-controlled legislature this yr. Georgia Republicans have loosened gun legal guidelines in recent times, however they did move a regulation this yr mandating faculty security plans and energetic shooter drills.
- ➡️ These are the 2 college students and two lecturers who had been killed within the capturing.
The Labor Division will report on employment and unemployment numbers for the month of August this morning. The month-to-month report is all the time carefully watched, however at this time’s stakes are significantly excessive. In July’s job report, hiring slowed sharply and the unemployment price jumped, which some took as a warning signal {that a} recession is likely to be across the nook. August’s report will take a look at whether or not the earlier month was a fluke or the start of an ominous development. The Federal Reserve can also be monitoring to weigh how a lot to chop rates of interest later this month.
- 🎧 Most observers do assume the job market is slowing down, however not fairly as a lot because the July report instructed, NPR’s Scott Horsley says. Forecasters are projecting a bit of rebound for August. A part of the rationale for the decelerate is the excessive rates of interest that the Federal Reserve imposed to get management of inflation. Fed policymakers have signaled fairly clearly they’re going to start out slicing rates of interest after they meet this month. It’s not recognized but if they may begin small with 1 / 4 level price reduce or go massive and reduce charges by half a share level. If the unemployment price ticks down a bit, the Fed may have the leeway to do a smaller price reduce, but when not they could look to be extra aggressive.
Deep dive
Indiana’s state truthful will deliver animals from throughout the state collectively. Consultants say it poses a danger for the unfold of chook flu
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It’s state truthful season! Individuals in states throughout the nation are gathering to take pleasure in Ferris wheels, corn canine, deep-fried Twinkies, butter sculptures and extra. However all that shut contact raises a priority this yr: the unfold of the influenza virus. It has grow to be a specific concern as H5N1 (chook flu) infections have been confirmed in dairy cattle in 14 U.S. states. Officers at some state gala’s have enacted stricter guidelines to maintain the virus from spreading.
- 🎡 Scientists extensively agree that there isn’t sufficient testing to completely perceive which states have cows contaminated with chook flu.
- 🎡 There’s a priority that the chook flu may mutate to unfold extra simply amongst mammals, together with people, if given the possibility.
- 🎡 Consultants fear the danger of it turning into a human virus may heighten if the flu makes it to pigs specifically. It is because pigs are excellent mixing vessels for viruses from totally different species.
- 🎡 There’s no purpose to overlook the state truthful altogether. At-risk populations, such because the immunocompromised, ought to think about avoiding the cattle barns this yr.
Right here’s extra on why state gala’s could possibly be potential breeding grounds for viral mutation.
Weekend picks
Shenseea earlier than a efficiency at Webster Corridor in New York Metropolis.
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Take a look at what NPR is watching, studying and listening to this weekend:
🍿Motion pictures: In Afraid, John Cho performs a dad who has an opportunity to check out a really superior AI system in his residence, nevertheless it does far more than discuss again. It’s the most recent within the style of “the computer is alive” tales.
📺 TV: In Netflix’s new collection Kaos, Greek gods are a wealthy and highly effective modern-day household. Jeff Goldblum performs impulsive and deeply insecure Zeus, however he is not paranoid as a result of there actually is a plan to overthrow him.
📚 Books: It’s time to compile your fall studying record and we’re prepared to provide you a head begin. Listed here are 16 titles — fiction and nonfiction — at the moment out or releasing quickly to look out for.
🎵 Music: Shenseea needs the place because the definitive it woman of dancehall’s pop future. She launched her sophomore album By no means Will get Late Right here earlier this yr and now, she tells NPR she’s already wanting ahead to creating new music.
🎮 Video games: The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Knowledge, one of many greatest surprises of the gaming yr, releases Sept. 26. After a preview occasion, now we have the deets on the way it flips each mechanical and narrative scripts.
❓Quiz: From questions on memoirs to queens of the charts and subject, do you will have what it takes to be topped with an ideal rating?
Earlier than you go
Maori Queen Nga Wai Hono i te Po was anointed on Thursday, per week after the loss of life of her father, who had been king for 18 years.
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- The Maori of New Zealand anointed a brand new monarch Thursday, formally putting in 27-year-old Nga Wai Hono i te Po as their second-ever queen.
- Generational soccer star Alex Morgan, who helped lead the U.S. to 2 FIFA Ladies’s World Cup titles and an Olympic gold medal, introduced that she’s going to retire.
- Reasonable, veteran politician Michel Barnier has been named France’s prime minister by President Emmanuel Macron in hopes he’ll work to heal divisions inside the nation.
This article was edited by Obed Manuel.
