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There's been a lot of attention on California's unusual primary candidates from all parties
run together, and PR-Steven Fowler says, "For Governor, there were more than 60 gubernatorial candidates." There is a three-person race for the top two spots, billionaire Tom Styer, former health and human services secretary, Javier Vassera, and former Fox News host Steve Hilton, a Republican backed by Trump.
This is important because it's possible that the two Democrats advance, leaving Republicans without a top-of-the-ticket champion to help them with some house races affected by redistricting. NPR Steven Fowler reporting, "There's interest in the Senate race in Iowa, Republican voters have selected GOP Congresswoman Ashley Hinson for their candidate."
Democratic voters picked Iowa State House representative Josh Turek. He represents an area that voted for Donald Trump.
“He argues his resume is the best way for Democrats to win in a Republican-led state.”
There's a new acting director of national intelligence, President Trump has tapped the current head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, Bill Pulti. His current job is to regulate the agencies that guarantee home loans in the US. Before that, he is career-focused mostly on housing. His biographies do not show any experience in the intelligence field, and PR's era
comectanial has more. Bill Pulti is used as current post to attack people Trump receives this political enemies. His new job present objective assessments of US intelligence gathering to the president, so he can make informed decisions. Top Democrats are now warning that his appointment could imparrel their party's support
for a key foreign intelligence gathering law. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. His supposed elevation, as the acting director of national intelligence, will jeopardize
“the effort to pass surveillance legislation that was already on life support.”
FISA is set to expire June 12th, Eric McDaniel and peer-news the Capitol. The Trump administration is preventing Americans exposed to Ebola from returning home for care. The plan instead is to send them to a facility in Kenya. And PR's Gabriella Emanuel reports aid groups are concerned. This could affect recruitment for qualified medical teams to treat people.
In Kenya, the proposed quarantine site has been met with legal hurdles and civilian protests. Now humanitarian aid groups are also voicing concerns. Doctors without borders says this US policy will quote negatively impact the ability of international organizations to recruit qualified and experienced staff to travel to the epicenter of the outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The past Ebola outbreaks in Africa infected Americans received care at specialized US facilities. Their fatality rate was much lower because of the high quality of medical care. Gabriella Emanuel and PR-news. This is NPR.
“President Trump says Iran is agreed to not have a nuclear weapon.”
He's spoken upon cast that air today, but there's no word about this from Iran. This comes as the US and Iran have exchanged fire, Iran fired toward Bahrain and Kuwait officials in Kuwait now say, "One person has been killed several people have been heard and there's damage to vital facilities." Kuwait says that includes diplomatic missions, but it's not clear which ones.
The Trump administration is dismantling a deep sea observation system that provides data to scientists worldwide, and PR's native rod explains. The Ocean Observatory's initiative has provided real-time data on the world's oceans for a decade. It's made up of more than 900 scientific instruments.
Some, calibrated to withstand the intense pressure of the deep sea, and its help researchers better understand marine ecosystems, ocean currents, and the effects of global warming. Starting this month, the National Science Foundation says it will begin removing instruments
from the system, which costs nearly $50 million annually to operate.
The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, recommended closing the system in its project 2025 playbook, calling it a source of "climate alarmism." Nate Rott and PR News US Geological Survey says there's been a strong earthquake this morning about 100 miles off the coast of northern California and southern Oregon.
This magnitude is 5.7, the government says no tsunami is expected. I'm Core of a Coleman NPR News in Washington. It's June, and another big week in the run-up to the midterms, primaries and half a dozen states, including California, where new congressional maps are in place, and a chaotic race for governor is wide open.
We're also following gas prices and Iran. So far, talk of a peace deal is just talk. We'll keep you posted.
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