Live from NPR News, I'm Jial Snyder, Republican voters in Georgia have chosen...
as a party's nominee for governor, voters handed Jackson the victory in Tuesday's primary
“runoff over the Trump endorsed lieutenant governor, Berg Jones, in a victory speech, Jackson”
thanks supporters for getting to the polls. Tonight you made your voice heard loud and clear, tonight we did more than win a runoff. Tonight we prove that people are Georgia are in charge. Jackson will face Keisha Lance bottoms in November. She's a former Democratic mayor of Atlanta.
Georgia Republicans may have rejected President Trump's choice for governor, but they handed the victory to Congressman Mike Collins, who is running for the Senate seat currently held by Democrat John Ossoff, Trump endorsed Collins last week, calling him magma Mike in a social media post. His rallies are blasting the U.S. that he rons tentative deal to end the war.
Israel is not one of the signatories, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is taking a lot of heat in Pierce County, Con reports. Netanyahu says he will not give up what he calls his life's mission to make sure Iran doesn't have a nuclear weapon.
“He also says Israel will not leave Lebanon where it is fighting Iranian-backed Hezbollah fighters”
who repeatedly fire into northern Israel. Israel struck in and around Lebanon's capital and now occupies a large area of the country, which it says is a vital buffer zone. Political opponents and even lawmakers in Netanyahu's coalition government to cry the deal calling it dangerous.
Iran's foreign minister reiterated Tuesday that the deal to end the war requires Israel's withdrawal from Lebanon, and that it's continued presence violates the memorandum of understanding. Very con and PR news, Tel Aviv. Trump are focusing his attention on the war in Ukraine, Trump, and other G7 leaders at
their summit in France, heard Tuesday from Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky. Trump says he is considering re-imposing sanctions soon on Russian oil shipments. There are now more than 4,000 national guard troops deployed to Washington, D.C., federal officials announced a summer surge in law enforcement ahead of America's 250th birthday celebration,
“doubling the military presence, said PR's Cat Law and Software reports.”
Around 1200 troops from dozens of states have been added to President Trump's Washington D.C., National Guard deployment in recent weeks, and hundreds more are expected by July 4th. Trump deployed the guard in August of last year as part of an effort to fight crime and beautify the city.
Crime was already trending down before Trump got into office, and the National Guard has no arresting power. Troops, many of whom are armed, are mainly performing patrols around the city, making their presence known in residential areas, parks, and metro stops. According to an estimate by the nonpartisan congressional budget office, the current deployment
in D.C., costs around $2.4 million a day.
This is in PR news. A once arriving gold mining town in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has become the epicenter of the country's Ebola virus outbreak. There are now over 800 confirmed cases and nearly 200 deaths with health workers warning the worst as yet to come, and at Livingston is on the ground reporting for MPR.
"I'm in a gold mine in Longwalu. It's in a valley surrounded by steep green hills. You can hear the sound of a generator. Not pushing sounds down a sleuth. Workers then look through that sleuth to try and find bits of gold.
There are, say, I may be 20, 30 pits here, dozens and dozens and dozens of people are working. Despite the Ebola outbreak, that is raging in this small town. The workers that we've talked to are from everywhere across eastern Congo. People travel far and wide in search of economic opportunity. It gives you a hint as to how the disease spread from on Gualu over such a large region.
These people are highly mobile, and we'll go wherever they can in order to make a living." The family of former NFL star Alden Smith is donating his brain to the Boston University CTE Center to research the long-term effects of brain injuries, following his death at age 36. Smith died Saturday hours after delivering pizzas to a homeless charity in the San Francisco
Bay Area. No cause of death was given, but the Smith family has hired lawyers to investigate the attorneys say they wanted to determine whether Smith had CTE or other brain damage caused by concussions. Stocks mostly hired was day trading in Asia led by South Korea's benchmark, which is up
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