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Democrat Javier Bassera will advance in California's Race for Governor, according
“to a race call by the Associated Press from Member Station KQED in San Francisco Marisa”
Lagos reports. Bassera's #1 Finnish marks a remarkable comeback for the former U.S. health and human services secretary who is pulling in single digits as recently as April, before surging in the final weeks of the race. It remains unclear who will claim a second spot in the November election.
Republican businessman Steve Hilton still has an edge over billionaire Democratic activist Tom Styer, but Styer has been gaining ground as ballots continue to be counted.
An estimated 3.5 million uncounted ballots remain.
California's open primary system allows the top two vote getters to advance regardless of party. And mail-in ballots postmarked by election day can still arrive up to 7 days later. MNPR News, Emerisa Lagos and San Francisco Mane Democratic Senate Kennedy Graham Platner is refuting allegations that he was physically threatening to a former romantic partner
Kevin Miller with Mane Public Radio has more.
“A woman who dated Platner more than a decade ago told the New York Times that he once”
yanked her out of a cab by her wrist after an argument. She also alleged that the Marine Corps veteran twisted her arm behind her back before forcefully closing her into a bedroom and that he was aware that one of his tattoos had Nazi associations. Platner forcefully denied the allegations during an interview with Mane Public Radio.
No, that's just not true.
It's the latest controversy to royal the Democrats campaign ahead of the state's June 9th primary. Whoever wins will face Republican Senator Susan Collins this fall in a race that could decide which party controls the Senate. For MPR News, I'm Kevin Miller and Augusta Mane.
Text stocks tumbled today with the tech heavy NASDAQ index falling more than 4% and MPR's John Ruich reports. The sell-off was triggered by concerns around the artificial intelligence investment boom
“and companies linked to AI in one way or another led the way down, including chip stocks.”
In video which makes the most popular microchips for AI, saw its share price dropped 6% chipmaker AMD's shares fell nearly 11% and Broadcom was off more than 7% following a double-digit drop the day before after its earnings outlook failed to impress investors. The tech giants were also down on the day as investors sold their shares to lock in recent profits, Intel, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Tesla and Alphabet all dropped.
I'll told the NASDAQ's fall of 4.2% was its biggest drop in one day since April 2025. Still the index is in positive territory over the past month and it's up 33% from a year ago. John Ruich and PR News. A federal touch has sided with 20 democratic states and halted the Trump administration's
efforts to force states to comply with conditions to get funds from the federal food aid program SNAP. The restrictions include rules about immigration and what the administration calls gender ideology. This is NPR News. Russian President Vladimir Putin has rejected a proposal by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky
for a face-to-face meeting saying he sees no point in it.
Putin describes Zelensky's open letter proposing the meeting as "boreish," it was the first
public message Zelensky had sent directly to Putin since Russia sent troops into Ukraine in 2022. advocacy groups have filed a case against equatorial Guinea, representing African migrants deported there from the U.S., as Michael Coloki explains some migrants have now returned to their countries of origin.
The complaint filed by rights groups with the African Commission on Human and People's Rights calls for a suspension on the repatriation of the reported migrants from equatorial Guinea to their countries of origin, claiming that some had been forcefully returned despite expressing fear of persecution. The Trump administration has previously approached some African countries to accept deportees
who as citizens of other nations. Over the past several months, the U.S. has deported migrants to equatorial Guinea, is rotini, south Sudan and the number of other countries. Meanwhile several migrants who had been deported from the U.S. to the Democratic Republic of Congo, earlier this year have returned to their home countries according to Congo
disease authorities. For MPR News, a Michael Coloki in Nairobi Australian officials say they confiscated more than 100,000 illegal cockroaches from a breeder in the country's largest ever seizure of exotic invertebrates. The haul worth over $140,000 included madagascar hissing and dubia cockroaches.
They're illegal to import, keep or sell an Australian due to potential environmental risks. They were being sold online as reptile food. This is NPR News. Every episode of it's been a minute, NPR is what's happening in culture podcasts, starts by asking three questions, who, how, why now, if the culture is asking it, we're talking
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