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Long-time Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine will face political newcomer,
“Graham Platner in the November General Election.”
Collins was unopposed in Tuesday's GOP primary. Platner easily won the Democratic primary, despite recent questions about his personal life. During an address to supporters Tuesday night in Blue Hill, Maine, he promised to do better.
"I've made mistakes in my life, mistakes that I regret that I live with, and I continue to learn from. I'm still far from perfect. But every day, I wake up and I try to be a little bit better, and a little bit kinder that I was the day before."
The Maine Senate seat is considered critical of Democrats or two game control of the Senate.
The 41-year-old Platner enlisted in the Marines after graduation from high school, he did multiple deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan before becoming an oyster farmer in his native state of Maine when he returned. Republican Steve Hilton has secured the second spot in California's governor's race.
“That's according to a call by the Associated Press.”
Capradios, Laura Fitzgerald reports. Hilton, a former Fox News commentator who's endorsed by President Trump, will advance to the general election for California Governor. Hilton will face Democrat Havier Bacera, who served as California Attorney General and U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary in the Biden administration.
That call is the end of the road for Democratic candidate Tom Steier, who was vying for the second spot to face off with Bacera in a Demon Dem race. California's top two primary system allows the top two vote earners to advance to the general regardless of their party. Steier, a billionaire, and former hedge fund manager ran the most expensive gubernatorial campaign
in state history, spending more than $200 million of his own money.
For in-pair news, I'm Laura Fitzgerald in Berkeley. Congress has approved roughly $70 billion to fund immigration enforcement through the rest of President Trump's term. This despite objections from Democrat to try to block the money for ice and the border patrol. NPR's Sam Greengrass has the story.
The 2014-2012 House vote caps a month long debate over immigration policy sparked when officers killed two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis. Democrats secured none of the additional reforms they were demanding in wake of the shootings like requiring officer-worn body cameras. While Republicans used a special budget maneuver to skirt Democrats and fund ice and border
patrol not just for this year, but until 2029. Democrats and even some Republicans worried the unorthodox move allows the agencies to avoid congressional oversight. That's because they won't have to come back to Congress for more money for three years. Last year Republicans used the same tool to send ice and border patrol tens of billions of
dollars with few strings. Sam Greengrass and Piano News Washington. And from Washington, you're listening to NPR News. The U.S. in Iran traded military strikes early Wednesday, one day after Iran took out a U.S. Army helicopter near the state of Hormuz.
Iran launched attacks into neighboring Bahrain in Kuwait and Iran also said it targeted an air base in Jordan home to U.S. forces. Meanwhile, U.S. central command said it launched self-defense strikes against Iran hitting an Iranian air defense missile facility radar sites and a ground control station. The number of conflicts between states rose again last year.
It's the highest level since the second World War. That's according to a report by the U.P.P. Sava Conflict data program. One of the worst scenes is in Sedan. NPR's "amangual in Kuwaito" reports. According to the Obsala Conflict data program,
fatalities from a growing number of conflicts rose to nearly a quarter of a million last year.
The deadliest violence were massacres in a city in Sedan's western region of Darfur. It pushed one-sided violence in Africa to its highest levels since the World War and genocide in 1994. More than 60,000 people were killed in the city of Al-Fasheir by the rapid support forces at war with Sedan's Army for the last three years.
The RSF had launched a brutal 18-month siege on the city before it took its over last October. The violence against African ethnic groups for the hallmarks of a genocide according to the UN. Immanuel Akimotu, NPR News, Lagos. The best of seven NHL Stanley Cup final between Carolina Hurricanes in the Las Vegas Golden Knights now tied at two games each.
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