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President Trump is weighing in on the Republican primary race for Senate in Texas one week
before the runoff election. Trump is endorsing Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton over incumbent Senator John Kornin. The president says Kornin's a good man, but did not support him when times were tough. The winner, in next Tuesday's election, will face Democratic State Representative James
Toloreco, a former educator, often viewed on social media invoking Scripture in challenging GOP back policies that he is viewed as marginalizing of vulnerable populations. NPR is the medical Montenero, is following primary elections today in six days. Tonight we're going to see results from Senate primaries in Alabama and Georgia, where the Republicans, they're all trying to outmaga each other.
“Georgia is going to be particularly important in watch because it's a really important”
Senate race with Democrat John Ossoff, as the incumbent Republicans wouldn't really love to flip that seat, but the Republican primary electorate in Georgia is very conservative and very different than the general election one, which has become much more purple. NPR is Dominican Montenero reporting Russian president Vladimir Putin has arrived in Beijing to meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
Two days visit Putin. Trip comes the days after China touted more stable relations with President Trump. President Piers Center for Park Russia's president Putin calls President Xi an old friend. In a video he sent to the Chinese people ahead of his visit. In it he praises what he calls truly boundless potential of Russia China relations.
China has become Russia's lifeline, increasing trade between the two since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, though the Chinese denied supporting Russia's war effort. In addition to deals a Kremlin spokesperson says Putin hopes to hear firsthand information about Xi's recent meeting with President Trump.
“While for China, Russia's energy resources are important as the straight of Hormuz remains”
effectively closed. Jennifer Pack and PR News Shanghai. A wildfire in rural southeast New Mexico that started when a medical flight crashed has burned nearly 25 square miles. NPR's Jeff Brady reports about 700 people are battling the fire north of the Capitan
mountains in the Lincoln National Forest. A small medical plane crashed in the rural areas, 75 miles west of Roswell last Thursday. Four people were aboard, the flight crew and medical personnel all died in the crash. The federal aviation administration and national transportation safety board are investigating. The crash sparked a small fire that quickly grew.
Dry windy conditions helped the fire double in size between Sunday and Monday. The steep rugged terrain has made it difficult to fight the forest fire, authorities evacuated this partially populated area, Jeff Brady and PR News. You're listening to NPR. Train service is resuming on the Long Island Railroad after unionized workers and the Metropolitan
Transit Authority reached a tentative labor deal to end a day's long strike. The suspension on the busiest commuter rail system in the country affected more than
a quarter million daily commuters in the New York City area.
Currently limited service is expected to fully resume by evening rush hour.
“A Texas biotech company says it has taken an important step toward bringing the dodo and”
another bird back from extinction. NPR's Rob Stein with the story. The Los Alpiosciences in Dallas says the company has created fully functional artificial eggs that can just date bird embryos. So far the company has used the eggs that has healthy chicken chicks, but Colossal says
the advance demonstrates that the company's 3D printed plastic artificial eggs work. The company is now working on larger artificial eggs that could just date the dodo and another flightless bird that disappeared hundreds of years ago called the Giant Moa. Colossal says scientists are still years away from recreating the extinct birds, but the companies also working on resurrecting other animals, including the William Ameth.
Critics question whether it would be safe, ethical, or even possible to re-wake in extinct creatures. Rob Stein, NPR news. Tracing gas prices linked to the warning, Ron Triple A says the price of a gallon of regular gasoline is now up to $4.53.
It's NPR. For poor people in one of the world's fastest growing mega cities, development means displacement and violence. On the Sunday story, the human cost of building Legos Nigeria into the Dubai of Africa
is now to the Sunday story from the up first podcast on the NPR app.
