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South Carolina holds a primary election Tuesday with statewide races for Governor- Attorney General and U.S. Senate. Five Republicans are challenging and incumbent Senator Lindsey Graham for the Republican Senate nomination. Monday night, Graham held a tellerally, President Trump called in making it clear that Graham
has his support and Trump also thanked Graham for backing him with the U.S. is really war against Iran.
“I think we're winning that battle, but you're really going to win it over the next”
two weeks when we declare total victory. It'll be a total victory. It'll happen very soon, and oil prices will come tumbling down. Three Democrats are seeking the Senate seat. Dr. Annie Andrews is considered the front runner to secure the Democratic Party nomination.
Five Republicans and three Democrats are running for Governor. A pause in fighting between Iran and Israel appears to be holding after the biggest test so far of the ceasefire agreed to enable. The two countries exchange fire before announcing a halt to the attacks on Monday, but the violence has continued in southern Lebanon.
The Lebanese health ministry said is really strikes killed 14 people on Monday. Half of those after Iran threatened to attack Israel again if continued bombing Lebanon. From Jerusalem, here's the BBC's Middle East correspondent, Yolanda Now. The latest flare-up between Israel and Iran was triggered by events in Lebanon. On Sunday, Israel hit the stronghold of Hezbollah in southern Beirut in response to the
Iran-backed armed group firing rockets at northern Israel. Yesterday, Iran warned it would resume hostilities of Israel continued to hit Hezbollah targets in Lebanon. Israel has insisted it will not accept a new equation whereby Iran links fighting in Lebanon to the conflict in the wider region.
Open AI, the maker of chatGPT, says it's filed confidential paperwork with the securities and exchange commission to begin a potential IPO. And PR's John Rudicz reports.
“Open AI's plans to list shares on the stock exchange have been an open secret for a while now,”
but they've taken the first steps saying they submitted confidential paperwork, joining
a wave of blockbuster IPOs this year. The move comes after competitor Anthropic, which makes the Claude AI models filed the same paperwork about a week ago, and Elon Musk's company SpaceX, which does rockets satellite communication, social media, and AI, is poised for its own initial public offering of share to the public later this week.
Open AI says it has not decided on the timing yet, and says it may be a while because there are things the company wants to do that are likely easier as a private company. The filing it says gives it the option to go public sooner if that ends up being the best thing. John Rudicz and PR news.
The San Antonio spurs one game three of the NBA Finals Monday night. The final score, San Antonio 115 New York 11, game five is Wednesday night in New York. It's NPR. President Trump says two Army helicopter crew members on an Apache helicopter shot down Monday near the straight of her moods have been rescued.
It's unclear why the helicopter went down. The U.S. has deployed helicopters and other aircraft to enforce a military blockade along the critical waterway. France is gripped by agony and outrage over the death of an 11-year-old school girl, alleged
the murdered by a recidivist, who was never questioned by police.
NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports the tragedy comes on the heels of another scandal involving abuse in elementary schools. Thousands gathered in cities across France to show their outrage over a justice system, they say doesn't work. In Paris, an angry crowd in front of the Justice Ministry, chanted for the minister to
resign. 11-year-old Lejana went missing May 29th after school in her hometown in Southern France. Her body was discovered a week later after the main suspect of 41-year-old father of a classmate was arrested, officials revealed he'd been accused in several cases involving young girls, including the rape of a 10-year-old, but it's still not been questioned by police
when Lejana went missing nine months later. Justice Minister Jair Hal Daumanah has promised 70,000 cases involving children will be examined in the next month. Eleanor Beardsley and Pier News, Paris. The high cost of oil because of the war in Iran is costing the airlines billions new data
shows the airline spent 78% more on fuel last month, it's NPR. Support for NPR. On June 11, the globe's biggest sporting event comes to North America, the FIFA World Cup.
The Super Bowl, and you might say, averages something over a hundred million live viewers,
“but the World Cup final, I think like five times that much.”
The favorites, the underdogs, and the Americanization of the world's game. This is now to the Sunday Story from the Up First Podcasts on the NPR app.
