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nomination for Senate and Georgia, according to a race call, Tuesday evening by the

Associated Press, Georgia Public Broadcasting Sarah Calliss reports.

Collins, who has represented Eastern Georgia since 2023, addressed a crowd in a barn in hour south of Atlanta when the race was called. My plan is your next U.S. Senator, it may be simple. I'm just going to use my business experience out there to build on the record of results that I've already delivered in Washington. Collins received an 11th hour endorsement from President Donald Trump over the weekend. His

opponent, Derek Dooley, had been supported by Georgia's Republican Governor Brian Cam since the beginning of his campaign. Collins will face incumbent Democratic Senator John Osloff, this November. For NPR News, I'm Sarah Calliss, and Jackson George Hubblecon voters

in Georgia have chosen Rick Jackson as a party's nominee for Governor voters handed

Jackson to victory in Tuesday's primary runoff over the Trump and Doris Lieutenant Governor Bert Jones, Jackson will face Atlanta's former Democratic mayor, Keisha Lance, bottoms

into November. Buters also went to the polls Tuesday and Alabama, Oklahoma, and Washington,

D.C. Trump administration trying to sort out an agreement with the Artificial Intelligence Company and Thropic after putting restrictions on the company's newest AI models over national security concerns. And PRST Peshibram is following that story. This is mentioned from the government was for any foreign users, so anyone not a U.S. citizen, and that even included some anthropic employees, but in order to comply with the directive and

droppings that they had to shut down their models for everyone. So since that's happened,

there's been, as you can imagine, a lot of confusion and disruption, and definitely still

questions about the mechanisms and the legal authority the administration has to suspend this technology. The White House on their end has been mostly quiet about the decision, but they did say that officials from the Commerce Department met with anthropic in Washington yesterday, and droppings said in a statement that, quote, both parties are working quickly to get this resolved.

The Department of Health and Human Services defending a decision to continue holding a passenger

from that cruise ship head by a deadly antivirus outbreak, and a federal quarantine unit in Nebraska here's some PRST Peshibram. And HHS spokeswoman says health secretary Robert of Kennedy, Jr. is refusing to let Angela Perryman finish her 42-day quarantine at home, because the state of Florida will not post a guard outside her home 24/7, noting that the virus has a 40% fatality rate, HHS spokeswoman Courtney Spencer added that the decision

is necessary to ensure both parimmons and her communities well-being. Florida, most independent public health experts, and even an internal reviewer at this EDC, says a guard is unnecessary, Rob Stein and Pyrenees. This is NPR. There's been a deadly crash of a small plane and southern Texas, please say six people were on board the plane when it came down on the highway and the radio Tuesday

night in Confire, authorities say at least one person was killed. Video posted online shows a plane on its side crashed into a highway barrier. People left their vehicles to try to smash the cockpit and window in an effort to free those on board. A Seattle non-profit has returned free world cup tickets meant for children. It's in protest to the U.S. denying entry to a popular Somali referee, Freddie Monaris, member station K and K X reports.

American use boards Academy runs a soccer league for children of African descent. It received twenty free world cup tickets from a city initiative to send Seattle area kids to matches. But now it's returned those tickets to show support for Somalia's Omar Artan. A top soccer official in Africa who has denied entry to the U.S. for the tournament. Alia Bdula founded the African use board's academy.

"So us, it was like a Somali soccer team made it to the workout. You know, we were just gonna send him message to show him that we love him, to show him that we are the mire him that we will intensify his world life opportunity for him." Seattle partnered with non-profits in the business community to provide 1,400 tickets to children in the region.

For NPR News, I'm Freddie Monaris in Seattle. "In World Cup, play soccer star Leon Al-Messie has tied the World Cup scoring record. He scored a hat-trick in Argentina's opener against Algeria matching former German player Mirasov Close's mark of 16. I'm trial Snyder in PR News."

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