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The U.S. carried out new strikes on Iran tonight, the military describes the attacks
as defensive, targeting an Iranian military facility and downing attack drones. The strikes came after President Trump said earlier in the day that Iran is negotiating on fumes, a U.S. official not authorized to speak publicly called the attacks "measured, purely defensive, and intended to maintain the ceasefire." U.S. military contractors will need at least three years to replenish stockpiles
“of key weapons systems used in the war, according to a report from the Center for Strategic”
and International Studies. It could still take years to rebuild inventories because contractors aren't using aren't used to producing the advanced weapons on such a large scale. Alabama is asking the Supreme Court to allow it to use a congressional map favoring Republicans in this year's elections.
This comes despite a lower court's ruling that the redistricting plan intentionally discriminates against black people, as Troy Public Radio's Austin Toy reports. A panel of federal judges on Tuesday rejected the effort, calling it a "intentional decision to dilute minority votes." Now, the Republican-led state is asking the highest court in the land to intervene.
In 2023, the Supreme Court ruled that Alabama had likely violated the Voting Rights Act
with its map, and needed to draw a second district with a majority of black voters.
That ruling eventually led to the election of a second black Democrat from the state.
“For NPR News, I'm Austin Toy, in Montgomery, Alabama.”
Texas's new Republican nominee for Senate Ken Paxton is taking aim at his Democratic opponent James Taloreco in a new campaign ad, and Taloreco is firing back, Michael Adkinson from Member Station Houston Public Media reports. For instance, campaign is calling his Democratic opponent, quote, "too low T for Texas." This new ad accuses Taloreco of not representing Texas's values, using previous statements
from Taloreco himself. "This is Texas. This is not. The American flag is such a complicated symbol for most of us."
In his own ad, comprised entirely from newsclips, Taloreco highlighted the allegations
brought against Paxton during his state impeachment trial two years ago. "Bribering, their election of duty, obstruction of justice, and conspiracy, a majority of Texas House Republicans voted blue and peach one of their own."
“Both nominees accuse each other of being too flawed for Texas.”
They'll face off in this high-profile race in November. For NPR News, I'm Michael Adkinson in Houston. Crews are resuming the search for nine people presumed killed at a Washington State paper mill where a chemical tank ruptured. It's likely to be one of the deadliest US workplace accidents in years.
The presumed death toll is at 11. Authorities say there's no hope of finding more survivors than they say failure has an impact to the region's air or drinking water. This is NPR News. A Michigan Summer Arts Camp in boarding school where Jeffrey Epstein has been accused of meeting
at least two of his victims will tear down a lodge that once bore his name. Epstein attended the interlock in Center for the Arts as a teenager in 1967 and donated more than $400,000 to the school. Whether forecasters say the European heat wave is unprecedented in its intensity and early arrival.
NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports temperatures are breaking records. London hit 95 degrees Fahrenheit and France has had temperatures over a hundred. What's known as a heat dome has trapped hot air coming from North Africa, causing the atmosphere to heat up day after day. It's a classic weather pattern, but scientists say it's being exacerbated by human
driven climate change. The European Union's Earth observation program, Copernicus, says Europe is heating twice as fast as the world average. For three reasons, it's next to the Arctic, which is the world's fastest heating region. Europe's melting glaciers accelerate global warming because snow and ice reflect the
sun while the bare earth absorbs it. And the changing atmospheric circulation around the continent, like the Gulf Stream, is intensifying heat waves, Eleanor Beardsley and PR News, Paris. Senators are introducing a bipartisan bill to regulate payments to college sports players. Limit them to one free transfer over their careers and restrict coach movement during the
season. Republican Ted Cruz and Democrat Maria Cantwell are trying to overcome more than a year of inaction in Congress since a lawsuit settlement started allowing players to be paid. This is NPR News from Washington.
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