Harris’ financial plan; The “song of the summer” : NPR

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At the moment’s high tales

Vice President Harris will deal with grocery retailer costs and housing prices within the first main coverage speech of her marketing campaign later immediately in Raleigh, N.C. She’s going to roll out her financial plan, centered on two points which might be high of thoughts for voters. This comes because the Democratic presidential nominee faces criticism for providing scant particulars about her personal imaginative and prescient for the function, and as her Republican opponent Donald Trump tries responsible her for top costs.

• 🎧 NPR’s Asma Khalid tells Up First that she’s anticipated to broaden the kid tax credit score and deal with reducing bills for healthcare, housing and groceries. Harris will name for a federal ban on worth gouging within the meals sector. She additionally needs to offer first-time house consumers $25,000 towards their down fee, a plan that would assist round 4 million folks. Khalid says the financial system is without doubt one of the greatest political vulnerabilities for Harris as a result of many citizens are nostalgic for the Trump financial system they keep in mind from earlier than COVID.

Former President Trump has been going through strain from Republicans to deal with coverage points as an alternative of crowd sizes and private assaults. This week, Trump talked in regards to the financial system. Talking at a North Carolina rally and an intensive press convention at his New Jersey golf membership, Trump talked about his plan to remove taxes on ideas and Social Safety advantages for round 45 minutes. He then took questions on subjects together with Israel, the assassination try in opposition to him, jobs and Gov. Tim Walz, Harris’ working mate, although he obtained off monitor and returned to the private assaults.

• 🎧 Yesterday’s occasion was a part of Trump’s efforts to spotlight that he does reply questions whereas Harris has not held a information convention, NPR’s Franco Ordoñez says. Whereas Republicans ask him to tone down his private assaults, he mentioned he’s the candidate, he has to marketing campaign his personal method and it’s what so lots of his supporters love about him. Harris is predicted to get one other bump in public opinion throughout subsequent week’s Democratic Nationwide Conference. Trump mentioned his marketing campaign’s technique is to color her as a radical liberal from California. He can even work onerous to steal the highlight with counterprogramming every day by holding rallies and JD Vance doing interviews.

5 folks, together with two California medical doctors and an alleged drug supplier, have been charged and arrested in reference to the loss of life of actor Matthew Perry. Greatest generally known as Chandler Bing from Buddies, Perry died final October from the acute results of ketamine. Officers mentioned in a press convention yesterday {that a} broad underground prison community equipped him with the medicine that finally killed him. The “Ketamine Queen of North Hollywood,” Jasveen Sangha, and Dr. Salvador Plasencia have been among the many arrested. U.S. Legal professional Martin Estrada mentioned that the defendants cared extra about being profitable off of Perry than caring for his well-being.

• 🎧 A Drug Enforcement Administration official mentioned that whereas attempting to get assist for nervousness and despair, Perry grew to become hooked on ketamine, LAist reporter Robert Garrova says. Docs refused to extend his dosage and that’s when he turned to different medical doctors who have been able to take benefit for revenue. He paid $55,000 for round 20 vials of ketamine over two months final 12 months.

At the moment’s pay attention

Shaboozey performs through the 2024 BET Awards in Los Angeles in June 2024.

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Within the race for the unofficial but coveted “song of the summer,” Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” at the moment reigns supreme. It is sitting at No. 1 for a fourth straight week on Billboard’s Sizzling 100 and can be the highest streaming track, top-selling track and the track getting probably the most radio airplay. The remainder of the chart, although, remained eerily static this week, however there are clues as to what bops might take the highest spot earlier than summer season’s finish.

Weekend picks

Take a look at what NPR is watching, studying and listening to this weekend:

🍿Motion pictures: Cuckoo, a stylishly odd horror movie, stars Hunter Schafer as an American teen who reluctantly strikes together with her household to a mysterious resort within the German Alps. Her rebellious spirit clashes with the resort’s creepy proprietor.

📚 Books: Wendell Berry’s new poetry assortment, One other Day: Sabbath Poems, 2013-2023, brings to life the fun and sorrows of hard-working rural Kentuckians.

🎵 Music: Louis Cole is a prolific musician recognized primarily as a drummer, and whose type over the previous decade has fallen within the nexus of jazz, funk and rock. Now, he’s given himself new musical challenges: Writing music for a choir and a brand new album of orchestral music, referred to as nothing.

🥘 Meals: Michelin-starred chef René Redzepi, host of the brand new present Omnivore on Apple TV+, joins Bullseye with Jesse Thorn’s I Want I Made That phase to speak a few recipe he needs he’d invented: a lovely vegetable dish referred to as Le Gargouillou.

❓Quiz: After the blissful information avalanches of marketing campaign hijinks and the Olympics, we’re again to the same old soup of science, retail and animals. Do you assume you’re up for the problem?

3 issues to know earlier than you go

The prehistoric monument Stonehenge, close to Amesbury in southern England, has lengthy fascinated researchers and guests.

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1. Researchers say Stonehenge’s “Altar Stone” could have come from Scotland. This implies the monolith – weighing roughly 12,000 kilos – on the heart of one of many world’s most mysterious was monuments by some means transported tons of of miles to England earlier than the invention of the wheel.
2. The Washington Submit is reviewing star tech columnist Taylor Lorenz’s non-public story on social media, which seems to label President Joe Biden a “war criminal” in a photograph. Lorenz disputes the authenticity of the picture.
3. TikTok argues that it faces “probably the most sweeping speech restriction” in U.S. historical past, in its newest court docket submitting in its battle to keep away from being banned. The Chinese language-owned social media app argues that the federal government’s claims that it may very well be used for Chinese language propaganda are baseless.

This text was edited by Obed Manuel.