Today is wednesday. August third will tell you about the highest ranking american official to visit taiwan in twenty five years and wide. China is already retaliating also Major milestone for veterans, health care and a new sign, the? U S, jobs market might be cooling plus where you could see a solar storm and what that even means why it may be. good time to book a flight and whose bigger raises people who stay with the same company or switch job those stories and more next welcome to that- is worthy of today's news in around ten minutes, fast, fair, fun, on the go, I'm andy thanks so much for being here, you're ready. Let's do there are one of the highest ranking public officials in the? U s is making a big controversial statement overseas. As expected, how speaker Nancy policy decided to visit taiwan along with other lawmakers. She made the trip, even though she faced

Links from the chinese government and some concerns from the: u s, military, but Pelosi says the trip is important because it acknowledges that quote the freedoms of taiwan and all democracies must be protected. Remember taiwan is a self governed island, but china sees it as being under its control and the chinese government has repeatedly said it will really take that control by force, if necessary. So after Pelosi landed, China's government said it will launch. Would it. Targeted military operations in response, but policy is keeping up her schedule this running she met with taiwan's president and she has other high profile meeting, still left on her agenda beforehand. These later today, for the first time since the? U s supreme court- returned roby weighed the federal government decided to challenge a state's abortion law in court. The? U S, justice, department, sued, idaho. its abortion ban said to take effect later this month, even

idaho's ban includes an exception to prevent the death of a pregnant woman. It does not include an exception when the women's health is in serious jeopardy and the deal J says that's the problem, but idaho is expected to fight this. The states governor says the bite in administration is overreaching, since the supreme court left these decisions up to the states I was ban is similar to about a dozen other laws that have been going into effect in states around the country. So more lawsuits could becoming separately. Voters in Kansas decided to protect the right to get an abortion in the stage? They voted against adding an amendment to the state constitution that would have let their state lawmakers, tighten abortion restrictions or banned the procedure altogether. This was the first time voters have been able to way and since the supreme but ruling similar decisions will be on the ballots. This fall in kentucky and perhaps other states to one think we want to mention people in georgia,

claim embryos as dependence on their state taxes. This comes after georgia band abortions, once doctors could detect a heartbeat, so an embryo or feed us with a heartbeat, well now count as human and other ways to people who claim them on their tax returns, can get three thousand dollars for each one. It's the largest healthcare expansion for veterans in decades congress pass to build to enhance healthcare and disability better. It's for millions of post nine eleven veterans exposed to toxic burn pits overseas. It would also veterans of other areas like those who are exposed to the agent orange chemical in vietnam. Overall, the bill ads two dozen health conditions and diseases, the v a automatically considers to be related to military service, and this bill has been closely watched for a while now veterans, groups and activists like comedian. Jon Stewart had been camping out on the steps of capitol hill, demanding congress take action and some veterans were allowed inside to watch the final vote. Last night, president Biden says he looks forward.

signing the bill into law. American workers are not enquire as high of demand these days, but u s labour departments. Latest data shows employers. Posting ten point: seven million job openings at the end of june, and that may sound like a lot. But it's actually the lowest number. In nine months. Retail jobs made up most of the decline and report say could be a sign that area of the economy is struggling, since americans are once again turning to spend more on experiences and services instead of goods. That's the analysed. The labour market is still strong by most measures, and even with this latest drop, there were still twice as many job openings as unemployed workers in june. On top of that lay offs are so close to

record LE today. A solar storm is expected to hit earth, but don't worry it's not dangerous, in fact, for parts of the world it's pretty exciting, since it will bring on an impressive light, show it's happening because of high speed winds from a hole in the sun's atmosphere, so solar material is headed toward earths, magnetic field and trickling down near the pole was today that send debris is expected to form light displays in the skies over canada and alaska called aurora, as the aurora might even be seen as far south as michigan and maine. But, as we said, it's not dangerous. Since this storm is considered weak scientists say there might be some minor fluctuations in power grids and it could impact some satellite functions. like for mobile devices and gps systems, but that there should not be a huge disruption. We have more news for you still ahead, but first a quick, gregg first sponsor you might imagine

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flash news. If you're looking to travel this month or next may be the best time to buy your plane ticket new data from travel site, hopper found the average price for a round trip ticket within the. U s will drop below three hundred in august and stay fairly low in september. To that's. Compared to a peak of four in ten dollars and may there are a couple reasons for this: dip. Fuel prices are down a bit and while demand for travel is still strong, its slowing the lower costs to fly is actually pretty typical. In the fall, ass kids go back to school and the summer trips come too. and but hoppers led economist, said this big of a decline is not typical, but don't expect these lower prices to last too long area or will likely spike again in october and november as people begin to book holiday, travel. Hotel prices are expected to follow this

trend. So we have a couple crypto related stories to tell you about an today. At least they aren't the kind doing the crypto world any favours. First hackers swiped nearly two, a million dollars in crypto currency from a startup called nomad, noble and allows users to transfer tokens online from one network to another, and these types of tools have become a target of cyber attacks. In recent years, export say: they're, pretty comes acts which can lead to errors and then leave them vulnerable, no man has acknowledged the attack on its twitter ends as its working around the clock to recover funds and make technical fixes, but it's not clear how quickly users may get reimbursed if that all right now, let's go from hackers to scammers the federal government charged eleven people for an alleged crypto currency pyramid in ponzi scheme

the ssc says the group called for such raised more than three hundred million dollars from investors around the world for what was said to be a decentralized smart contract platform. But really the ssc says it works like a standard pyramid scheme, for two years, where the main way for investors to make money was by recruiting others into the operation, not by selling an actual product or service. Multiple media outlets say they tried to reach out to people with force but have not heard back samsung I'm still new repair service for its galaxy devices? That is, if you want to fix things yourself, the company is partnering with the popular repair service. I fix it. Just then customers their own parts and tools. We step by step instructions on how to fix things like screens, shattered glass or charging ports and Samsung says little charge you the same amount it does. Its

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Could you other players, but that was not the only big trade. The cardinals in yankees also swapped big leaguers harrison baker in exchange for Jordan, Montgomery Joey Gallo is headed the los angeles dodgers in return, the yankees gotta younger, minor league pitcher, and that's just to name a few of the most talked about trades of the week. Now, it's time to see them play the second half The baseball season is already underway, ultimately leading up to the world series. This fall well, that's it for the main news today. So now it's time for work wednesday when we break down one interesting career or work related news story every wednesday, but first a message from our sponsor raw. These I used to think I had to choose between comfort and style when it comes to my shoes that if I want my shoes to be comfortable, I should not expect to get any compliments that day. But thanks for all these, that mindset has completely changed. I can wear my raw these all day, long with zero, blisters and pain. In fact,

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yours, so it makes sense that this is one of the main reasons for the so called great resignation. Another pew survey earlier this year found low pay was the top reason people left their jobs in twenty twenty one. Of course, it still takes some skill to get a raise. Whether europe who company or not our friends at indeed say before. You ask it's best to research, the going rate and the cost of living where you are then I recommend aiming for the top of the range and being confident in the ass alright. Thank you. So much for listening and joining us as part of your daily routine will catch you up on more It is to know tomorrow until then a great day