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The latest round in the midterm election year,
“fight is being held today across Nevada, North Dakota,”
South Carolina, and Maine. Maine is one of those states where Democrats see a path to winning the U.S. Senate. But NPR's age miller reports the party's hopes for outsting longtime Republican incumbents,
using Collins' rests with Graham Platner. The presumptive Democratic nominee whose campaign has been riddled with controversy. Platner is a combat veteran, turned oyster farmer. He's a political newcomer.
And he's had to answer a lot about his past since launching his campaign less than a year ago. Most recently, the New York Times published a story where Platner's previous romantic partners described him as toxic.
And as a person who does not respect women. Platner spoke to our colleagues at Maine Public, saying he believes these stories serve as a distraction away from the political movement he is building. He also told Maine Public,
“he doesn't think his past will haunt him”
at the primary ballot box. - NPR is sage miller. The Pentagon says the U.S. military helicopter went down near the straight of Hormuz yesterday. Two crew members were safely rescued.
U.S. Central Command disclosing information this morning but President Trump confirmed it last night. NPR's Greg Myri reports the U.S. forces are in the area enforcing a U.S. naval blockade. - The two crew members in the Apache helicopter
crashed is they were patrolling near the coast of Oman and not far from the straight of Hormuz. U.S. Central Command said they were rescued in the early hours of Tuesday about two hours after the crash. Both are in stable condition.
The military statements said the cause was under investigation. There have been no reports of hostilities in that area. U.S. forces are operating close to the straight but generally not inside it to enforce the U.S. blockade of ships going to or from Iranian ports.
Iran is enforcing its own blockade.
“Few oil tankers or other commercial ships”
are passing through the Gulf due to the dueling blockades. Greg Myri MPR News, Tel Aviv. - Gas prices remain high with no end and sight they're taking a toll on people's budgets and pierced in or for Latin reports.
- In South Carolina, Mabel Lago and her husband have put off their plan for long road trips in retirement but she worries they'll run out of time. At some point you don't want to drive at a sort of age. - In Ohio, middle school music teacher Matt Kiesel
has seen the cost of his hour-long commute double. Come fall, he's considering staying part-time with siblings in the city where his job is. - But then again, I'm away from my family and I'm away from my kids and my partner
and I don't want to have to do that. - Some can't get to work at all because of high prices. Alamba Shire at the United Way help line in Baltimore says a recent caller worried she'd be fired after missing two days because she couldn't pay for her fuel
for her car and there was little help. Bistier could offer. - That's Jennifer Ludden, it's NPR. - Publicly of the 14th stepped into Spain's culture wars during a visit to Barcelona today,
the American Pontiff upset some local soccer fans by revealing he backed Royale Madrid. A team often seen as a symbol of central power in Spain. However, hopefully you might have gotten back in the good graces of at least some local residents
when he initiated a prayer service at Barcelona's Cathedral today speaking in Catalan switching between it and Spanish.
- In Spain, in the second, the end of the official divino.
- Catalan was pressed during the Franco dictatorship and is widely viewed as central to a regional push for independence. Health Secretary Robert of Kennedy Jr says future doctors will now need stronger knowledge
of nutrition-based medicine before they can obtain a license to practice and pierce Maria Gadoi reports. - Kennedy announced the change at a press conference Monday. He said nutrition will now account for about 15% of the content on the three-step medical licensing exams
that medical students are required to take in the U.S. - That means nutrition will no longer said at the margins of medical education. It will shape what students learn with physicians, master, what licensing boards assess
and ultimately how patients receive care. - The groups that agreed to the plan include the national board of medical examiners and the national board of osteopathic medical examiners. Maria Gadoi and Pia News.
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