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states today, and President Trump is weighing in heavily on some campaigns.
“That includes the one run by Kentucky Republican Congressman Thomas Massey, who is sharply”
disagreed with the president. Yesterday Defense Secretary Pete Heggsett made what he calls a personal visit to that Kentucky district to campaign with Massey's primary opponent Ed Gallerine. By people are dead after a shooting yesterday at the Islamic Center of San Diego, according to police.
They say three men at the center were killed. They then found the nearby bodies of two males, an 18-year-old and a 17-year-old, who apparently died by self-inflicted gunshot wounds. San Diego police chief Scott Wall says they're believed to be the shooters, and Pierre's Julianna Kim has more.
Police chief Wall said officers got a call earlier that morning from a mother who son had ran away. She told authorities that she believed her son was suicidal, and that her car and weapons were missing. Wall's officers were sent to locations that they believed might be threatened, but there
“was no specific threat made to the Islamic Center.”
The motive has yet to be determined, but Wall said authorities are investigating this as a hate crime. And Pierre's Julianna Kim reporting. President Trump says he's going to hold off a planned U.S. military attack on a run at the request of many's allies.
Police says the attack was supposed to launch today, and Pierre's deepest chiverum has more. Trump said the upcoming attack on Iran would be delayed for a few days, but also said
it might never happen if Iran agrees to a deal.
I've put it off for a little while, hopefully maybe forever, but possibly for a little while. Because we've had very big discussions with Iran. Cutter and the UAE both say a deal is close to happening, which is why they asked Trump to pause the planned attack.
Trump says a deal will ultimately have to include Iran agreeing to not have a nuclear weapon. Deepish Ivaram and Pierre News, the White House. Chinese President Xi Jinping is set to welcome Russian leader Vladimir Putin, who is making a two-day trip to China, and Pierre's Jennifer Pack has more from Shanghai.
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 deny 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 Pierre News, Shanghai. You're listening to "NPR News." A labor strike against the biggest commuter rail system in the country is over, New York negotiators forward the long island rail road and its union have reached a tentative deal.
They have not released details yet. There's a planning Congress to overturn a management plan for federal lands in southern Utah. It's the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, dozens of scientific researchers and groups are urging lawmakers to keep the plan in place.
From Member Station, KNAU, Ryan Heiches reports.
The group of archaeologists, paleontologists, biologists and others, call the nearly 2 million
acre expanse in unparalleled living laboratory. They've nicknamed Grand Staircase the Science Monument because of its fossil record ecological diversity and cultural resources. The researchers sent a letter to federal lawmakers urging them to reject an attempt to toss out the Monument's management plan that govern science, conservation, recreation,
and cultural protection. The effort is spearheaded by Utah Republican Senator Mike Lee, who has long fought national monuments and other public lands protections. For NPR News, I'm Ryan Heiches in Flagstaff, Arizona. The parent organization of utility company, Florida, power, and light is offering to buy
a rival Dominion Energy. Dominion's region also covers Virginia among other states, Virginia also host several data centers.
This deal is valued at about $67 billion.
If it is completed, the merger would create the biggest electric company in the country. On Corfacolman, NPR News. This week on up first one trend emerging this election season, President Trump actively opposing Republicans he sees as disloyal and endorsing their primary challengers, who've doubled in combates in multiple states.
We're watching Keep primaries on Tuesday in Kentucky and elsewhere to see if that narrative holds up. And what those races might tell us about November.
