News Wrap: White House says U.S. will not build more nuclear weapons to counter Russia
News Wrap: White House says U.S. will not build more nuclear weapons to counter Russia
In our news wrap Friday, the Biden administration says the U.S. will not build more nuclear weapons to counter Russia and will adhere to limits under the 2010 New START Treaty, former Vice President Mike Pence will not face criminal charges over classified material found at his home in Indiana and the U.S. Army’s Fort Bragg shed its Confederate name Friday and is now Fort Liberty.
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1.74 -> Geoff: Welcome to "The
4.109 -> newshour."
5.544 -> The nation's job market has
5.977 -> turned in another strong
6.711 -> showing.
7.712 -> That's despite the federal
9.181 -> reserve's efforts to slow the
9.948 -> economy and curb inflation.
12.551 -> Amna: U.S. Job growth in may was
14.719 -> significantly higher than
15.554 -> analysts expected.
18.557 -> The labor department reports
19.858 -> employers added a net 339,000
22.694 -> jobs for the month.
24.563 -> The increased hiring came in
25.564 -> everything from construction to
27.866 -> restaurants to health care.
29.568 -> At the same time, layoffs rose
30.569 -> in other sectors, and
31.736 -> unemployment hit 3.7 percent --
32.704 -> up from a 50-year low in April.
35.24 -> Geoff: Now to the day's other
37.576 -> headlines, starting in eastern
39.578 -> India -- a train disaster there
41.58 -> has killed at least 120 people
42.147 -> and injured 850 others tonight.
45.584 -> Two passenger trains collided
46.151 -> about 130 miles southwest of
50.722 -> Kolkata, and at least 15 cars
51.857 -> derailed.
53.592 -> A chaotic scene unfolded in the
54.593 -> dark, with hundreds of police,
55.093 -> rescue workers and others trying
56.695 -> to free an estimated 200 people
57.596 -> trapped in the wreckage.
63.602 -> The Biden white house says the
64.169 -> U.S. Will not build more nuclear
65.604 -> weapons -- for now -- to counter
66.171 -> Russia.
68.139 -> Instead, national security
69.808 -> adviser Jake Sullivan said today
70.642 -> the U.S. Will adhere to limits
71.877 -> under the 2010 new start treaty
75.881 -> so long as Moscow does.
77.249 -> Mr. Sullivan: The United States
79.885 -> does not need to increase our
81.119 -> nuclear forces to outnumber the
81.92 -> combined total of our
83.855 -> competitors in order to
84.623 -> successfully deter them.
85.69 -> We've been there.
87.626 -> We've learned that lesson.
89.127 -> Nor does the United States need
90.629 -> to deploy ever more dangerous
91.162 -> nuclear weapons to maintain
94.633 -> deterrence.
94.833 -> Geoff: Russia has suspended
97.035 -> participation in new start, but
98.236 -> it's still abiding by limits in
99.07 -> the treaty, which expire in
99.838 -> 2026.
102.641 -> Extreme weather plagued much of
105.677 -> Asia today.
107.646 -> Southern and eastern China
108.113 -> sweltered in nearly 100-degree
108.813 -> temperatures as heat waves
109.648 -> arrived early.
111.983 -> Meantime, Japan was hit with
113.785 -> heavy downpours and flooding
115.887 -> from the same storm that lashed
116.655 -> Guam days earlier.
118.023 -> More than one million people
119.324 -> were under alerts.
121.226 -> An internal review has found a
125.297 -> -- back in this country, former
127.933 -> vice president Mike pence will
128.667 -> not face charges after
132.971 -> classified materials founded his
133.705 -> home.
134.005 -> It is widely reported that he
136.675 -> was informed Thursday.
140.679 -> His lawyers search his home in
142.681 -> January at his request and found
143.315 -> about a dozen documents.
144.816 -> The FBI found another one later.
149.688 -> An internal review has found a
150.689 -> border patrol nurse practitioner
151.289 -> declined to review a migrant
152.023 -> child's medical history before
152.791 -> she died last month.
154.693 -> The 8-year-old had heart
155.226 -> problems and sickle-cell anemia
156.695 -> and contracted the flu.
158.997 -> Officials previously said the
159.698 -> girl's family did not share her
160.699 -> medical records until after she
161.299 -> died.
167.172 -> One of the nation's best-known
167.939 -> military installations shed its
168.707 -> confederate name today and
169.307 -> became fort liberty.
171.71 -> It had been fort Bragg since
173.712 -> 1918.
174.012 -> Soldiers gathered for the
175.347 -> ceremony at the North Carolina
176.047 -> base.
177.749 -> The commanding general said
178.717 -> there was no shortage of ideas
180.719 -> about disposing of the old
181.353 -> symbols and signs.
183.722 -> Lt. Gen. Donahue: This is the
185.123 -> United States army, we received
186.257 -> a lot of specificity of what to
187.092 -> do with that.
191.73 -> Everything was collected up,
192.197 -> every monument and everything,
192.897 -> and that will go to the center
194.866 -> of military history.
195.4 -> Geoff: Fort liberty will still
197.869 -> be home to the army's 82nd
198.737 -> airborne division.
199.871 -> Its name change is the most
200.739 -> prominent yet in a Pentagon
201.306 -> initiative to drop confederate
202.073 -> titles.
204.175 -> On Wall Street --
206.077 -> stocks jumped after the strong
206.845 -> jobs report eased worries about
207.879 -> a recession.
209.948 -> The Dow Jones industrial average
212.751 -> gained 700 points -- 2% -- to
213.351 -> close at 33,726.
215.754 -> The NASDAQ rose 1%.
217.188 -> The S&P 500 was up nearly 1.5%.
221.96 -> And this year's national
223.762 -> spelling champion is dev shah,
224.763 -> an eighth grader from Florida.
227.866 -> The 14-year-old took the title
228.767 -> at the Scripps national spelling
229.3 -> bee in Washington last night.
232.103 -> His winning word was
233.772 -> psammophile, an organism that
234.339 -> thrives in sandy areas.
238.777 -> >> Psammophile.
242.947 -> Dev: P-s-a-m-m-o-p-h-I-l-e,
247.786 -> psammophile?
248.987 -> >> That is correct.
249.788 -> [Cheering]
258.797 -> Geoff: The title comes with
262.067 -> $50,000 in cash and prizes.
262.801 -> Congratulations to him.
264.969 -> Still to come, multiple attacks
266.171 -> and pressure raise questions
267.038 -> about the next phase in the war
270.809 -> in Ukraine.
271.409 -> We weigh in on the weeks
272.811 -> political headlines.
273.244 -> And we break down the major
276.948 -> takeaways from the first game of
277.816 -> the NBA finals.
281.219 -> >> This is "The pbs newshour"
281.92 -> from weta studios in Washington,
282.821 -> and in the west from the Walter
283.388 -> Cronkite school of journalism at
284.122 -> Arizona state university.
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