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in four states, Maine, Nevada, North Dakota, and South Carolina. In Maine, voters will be choosing nominees for Governor and three seats in Congress. Kevin Miller with Maine Public Radio says the race getting the most attention involves Democratic candidate Graham Platner, who's seeking the Senate seat currently held by Republican Senator Susan Collins. Platner is widely expected to clinch the Democratic nomination to challenge
Republican Senator Susan Collins this fall, despite multiple controversies surrounding his past. The Marine Corps veteran says he struggled with PTSD for years, after four combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. But Platner's progressive populist campaign continues to resonate with Democratic voters like Glenn and Friedman.
“"I believe the Graham Platner and his wife are working out their personal issues and that”
the real scandals are that half the people living in Maine can't afford to live here." Governor Janet Mills's name is still on the ballot, although she suspended her campaign weeks ago. For NPR News, I'm Kevin Miller. In South Carolina, five Republicans are challenging Senator Lindsey Graham as he seeks the party's nomination for a fifth term. Three Democrats are competing for their party's
nomination. Republican Congresswoman Nancy Mace is among those seeking the party's gubernatorial nomination. In California, Los Angeles City Councilwoman Nithia Romain is advancing to the November runoff election against incumbent mayor Karen Bass. Romain
finished second to the mayoral primary over Spencer Pratt, a Republican and former reality
TV personality. The agriculture department says several cases of new world's
“screw-worm have been confirmed at Ranches in Texas, as well as one in New Mexico.”
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins was in Texas yesterday to raise awareness, as David Martin Davies with Texas Public Radio Reports. "Rollins said this is an emergency that threatens the nation's cattle industry, but she wanted to stress that the parasitic fly is not going to hurt the quality of food in the United States."
"This does not affect the food supply system. This is not a virus, it is not a disease, it is a pest. And so we obviously are treating it as such, but the food supply system remains intact and couldn't be safer." Rollins also said the USDA is deploying resources in Texas, including setting up animal quarantine zones. Several fly releases via aerial flights and ground release chambers
“and deploying personnel to set up and monitor fly traps. People are encouraged to check”
their animals, including pets, and notify authorities if they find screw-worm in festations. For NPR News, I'm David Martin Davies in San Antonio. This is NPR News from Washington.
Researchers say introducing eggs to babies' diets in the first six months of life can
significantly reduce the chances they'll develop in egg allergy later on. NPR's Maria Cadoy reports on the findings of a new study published in JAMA Pediatrics. In the 1990s and early 2000s, parents were often advised to hold off on giving their babies eggs and other common allergy-causing foods until they were one to three years old. But as science has evolved, that advice has changed. Guidance now recommends introducing
eggs to babies by the age of six months. Now a new study finds that after Australia implemented this new infant feeding recommendation in 2016, the prevalence of egg allergy among children in that country fell by more than 17%. Other real-world research has found that rates of peanut allergies plummeted in the U.S. after guidelines here changed to recommend introducing the food to babies by six months of age. Maria Cadoy, NPR News.
A referee from Somalia, scheduled to officiate at the men's World Cup soccer tournament, has been denied entry into the U.S. FIFA confirms Omar Orton won't be taking part in the upcoming matches. U.S. Customs in border protection blocked Orton after he arrived on a flight in Miami over the weekend. In a statement, CPB sites what it calls vetting concerns. The World Cup kicks off on Thursday. The San Antonio spurs beat the nicks in New York last night
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