Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dan Ronan.
Long time Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine will face political newcomer Graham
“Platner in the November General Election.”
She was unopposed in Tuesday's GOP primary. Platner easily won the Democratic primary. This despite recent questions about his personal life. He addressed supporters Tuesday and I in Blue Hill Maine and 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 than I was the day before.
The Maine Senate seat is considered critical if Democrats are to gain control of the US 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 Maine after he returned home. Two lawsuits are trying to stop immigration and customs enforcement from turning a Salt Lake City warehouse into a detention center.
“Macy Lipkin of Member Station KUER has more.”
Salt Lake City and County filed one lawsuit and an advocacy group plans to launch their own. With site the National Environmental Policy Act, the law known as NEPA requires federal agencies to conduct environmental reviews for projects and the plaintiffs say the Department of Homeland Security hasn't done that.
SEMA Cockade teaches at the University of Maryland's law school.
She says NEPA is sometimes called the Magna Carta of Environmental Law. It doesn't land in a place where it says the federal agency can or cannot do a specific project. And in the analysis, a lot comes out in that analysis. A similar lawsuit in Maryland put a detention center there on hold. Now Homeland Security is conducting an environmental review.
For NPR News, I'm Macy Lipkin in Ogden, Utah. The Southern Poverty Law Center based in Alabama tracks extreme misman hate groups across the US. Two days they released their annual report on the group's trends and leaders of the hard right.
The report found 1,263 active hate in extremists anti-government groups in 2025 across the United States. The report asserts that the hard right "injoyed unprecedented access across the federal government." It pointed out the White House press pulls replacement of journalists with hard right influencers
and have frequently anti-immigrant and LGBTQ+ groups who are represented in congressional hearings. SVLC also indicated that federal law enforcement officers who would otherwise be focused on domestic extremism have been shifted to immigration enforcement, including almost a quarter of all FBI agents.
For NPR News, I'm Vahini Shory in Birmingham. It's NPR. The Southern Baptist Convention has a new president, the Nashville-based denomination, elected a Florida pastor, who the views the response to the SBC's Sex scandal as overblown. Mary Anna Bacca now of Member Station WPLN reports the choice moves the SBC further to the
right. For the past few years, the SBC's annual convention has focused on the fallout of sex abuse scandals and weather to enshrine a ban on women serving as pastors. Florida pastor Willie Rice won after asserting that he wouldn't budge on culture issues.
Here's what Pastor Adrian Taylor said when nominating Rice.
Rice assumes the highest position for the nation's largest Protestant denomination at a critical time for the SBC, as church membership drops even as weekly attendance increases. For NPR News, I'm Mary Anna Bacca Yao in Nashville. Police in Canada say a retired air candidate captain flew for 17 years with a forged pilot's license.
The pilot had a license, but authorities said that Jeffrey Wall did not have a high enough license or complete the mandatory training to fly the airlines' biggest jets, including the Boeing 767, the 777 and the 787.
“He was arrested August 1st in order to fly those jets, you have to have what's called an”
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