"Live from NPR news in Washington on Corva Coleman, there are primary electio...
states today, Maine, Nevada, North Dakota, and South Carolina.
“In Maine, the Democratic Senate candidate is Oyster Farmer and Combat and Veteran Graham”
Platner. The New York Times recently published a story where at previous romantic partners described Platner as a person who is toxic and does not respect women. In an interview with Maine Public Radio, Platner said he is confident that Maine voters understand that he has changed.
NPR Sage Miller reports if Democrats want to control the U.S. Senate next year, they have to win in Maine." That requires flipping the seat away from Republican Senator Susan Collins. She's held the position for 30 years, largely because of her more moderate stance on the hill.
She isn't a Trump loyalist, but she is still a Republican, which means the president's unpopularity nationally and in the state could hurt her. But she's been here before, she's won many competitive elections, and Democrats want this seat. They need this seat.
NPR Sage Miller reporting.
“The Trump administration is ordering the Census Bureau to come up with new plans for protecting”
people's privacy when it produces statistics based on people's personal information. NPR's Hansi Lowong reports this could limit the data released from the Census and other federal government surveys. Federal law requires a Census Bureau to keep people anonymous in its statistics. The decades when the main ways of Bureau has done that is by adding what's known as statistical
noise to make certain data fuzzy, especially data about small geographic areas and minority populations who could be easy to identify. But the Trump administration is now banning the approach to data privacy protection. Spokespeople for the Congress Department, which oversees a Bureau, do not merely respond to MPR's questions about why the ban was issued.
For the 2020 Census, no statistical noise was added to the state-level population numbers used to redistribute congressional seats and electoral college votes. The last year of the Bureau said it was playing to keep using this privacy protection for a neighborhood level results from the 2030 Census on Zila Wong and Bjarneus. The number of conflicts between states rose again last year.
It's at the highest level since the second world war. One of the worst scenes is in Sudan and appears Emmanuel Akinwotu reports. According to the Obsala conflict data program, fatalities from a growing number of complex
rows to nearly a quarter of a million last year.
The deadliest violence were massacres in a city in Sudan's western region of Darfur. It pushed one-sided violence in Africa to its highest levels since the Rwandan genocide in 1994. More than 60,000 people were killed in the city of Al-Fasheir by the rapid support forces at war with Sudan's army for the last three years.
The RSF had launched a brutal 18-month siege on the city before it took it over last October. The violence against African ethnic groups, both the hallmarks of a genocide, according to the UN. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. Last hour, the Pentagon disclosed two crew members aboard an Apache attack helicopter
went down near the coast of Oman yesterday near the straight of Hormuz. They've been safely rescued. U.S. command says they were located within two hours and are in stable condition. New York Times reported the news yesterday, President Trump confirmed it last night. It's not known why the helicopter went down.
Our official intelligence company, OpenAI, says it is filed confidential paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission. NPR's John Ruich reports it's intended to start the work on a potential initial public offering or IPO.
“OpenAI'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 shares to the public later this week.
OpenAI 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 Ruich and PR news.
NASA says it will reveal the next crew of astronauts for the Artemis 3 mission later this morning. This follows the work of the Artemis 2 team, those 4 astronauts flew around the moon and back earlier this year. You're listening to NPR.
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