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The Senate had its advance to build that tries to force President Trump to end the Iran
war.
“The measure still has to pass the house, it would require Trump to either gain congressional”
approval for the war or withdraw troops. The vote showed the growing number of Republicans defying the President's wishes on the war. Louisiana Republican Senator Bill Cassidy flipped to support the measure. Cassidy lost a primary election over the weekend after Trump endorsed his opponent.
The President is endorsing Attorney General Ken Paxton of Texas over incumbent John Corneon in the U.S. Senate race. The move gives Paxton advantage his early voting takes place. Democratic nominee James Taloreco says it doesn't change anything for him. The Texas Newsrooms blaze Gany has more.
In response to Trump's endorsement of Paxton, Taloreco says that no matter his opponent, he's ultimately running against quote, the billionaire mega donors in their corrupt political system. Well, a may poll released by the Barbara Jordan Policy Research and Survey Center at Texas
“Southern University shows Taloreco Todd or within a point of either Republican candidate.”
Taloreco says he has unbothered by Trump's move because his movement is to make Texas for working people and not about party politics. If Taloreco wins in November, he'd be the first Democrat elected state Biden Texas in three decades. For MPR News, I'm Blaise Gany in Austin.
The U.S. government has agreed to permanently drop tax claims against President Trump.
It's part of a deal to resolve Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS over the
leak of his tax returns. The U.S. is quote, forever, barred and precluded from examining or prosecuting Trump. His sons and the Trump organization's current tax issues, according to a one-page document posted on the DOJ website. And the Council on American Islamic Relations is calling on law enforcement to boost presence
around mosques after yesterday's deadly shooting at an Islamic center in San Diego. And appears adjacent to Rose reports.
“Care says the attack in Southern California is the consequence of years of anti-Muslim rhetoric.”
The group says that as mosques and other Islamic institutions face heightened threats, law enforcement must do more. Care wants increased patrols and increased coordination with community leaders to protect worshippers. The Civil Rights Organization is also calling for an end to politicians demonizing Islamic beliefs.
It points to among other things, the creation of an anti-Sherial law caucus in the U.S. House. According to Care's most recent civil rights report, complaints of anti-Muslim bias are on the rise nationwide. Jason Deros and PR news.
More than 17,000 people are under evacuation orders. As wildfires threaten homes in Southern California, the sandy fire and the hills north west of Los Angeles has consumed more than 1,300 acres. The fires 5% contained in the causes under investigation. Firefighters are also battling a blaze on Santa Rosa Island, Southern California Coast.
This is NPR News. The Nigerian military says 175 Islamic state fighters have been killed over the past few days in a joint operation with the U.S., a Nigerian military spokesperson says the strikes also destroyed weapons, checkpoints, and financial networks of the militants across the northeast and region of the country, it follows the killing of a local leader of the group late last
week. Colombian folk singer Toto Llamom Posiad, died Sunday at age 85. She was a respected practitioner of Afro-Columbian traditional music, and PR's Felix Contreras reports. She was born Sonia Basantevidas, but the world knew her as Toto Llamom Posiad.
She was from Colombia's Caribbean coast near a town called Montposh from which she took her stage name. She came from a musical family that specialized in the Afro-Columbian traditions of that area of the country, a combination of heavy percussion, indigenous flutes, and common response vocals.
In 1993, she recorded an album for musician Peter Gabriel's real-world records that catapulted her to international audiences, and in recent years she became a popular collaborator with a new generation of Colombian pop and folk artists, Felix Contreras, and PR news. An Australian farmer found a live frog in a bag of lettuce. The farmer was preparing dinner for his three housemates at the time, supermarket chain
that Woolworths has apologized and is investigating with suppliers how the frog was not detected earlier, the frog was christened Greg, and was released near the house. You're listening to NPR news from Washington. 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.
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