"Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.
President Trump used his July 4th speech on the National Mall last night to excursiate
“communists, and pure as Maraliason has more."”
Communists is Donald Trump's latest epithet for Democrats, and he's been using it lately as he searches for an advantage for Republicans in the midterm elections. "Our warriors did not fight communism on battlefields across the world, only to have that menace, rear its ugly head right back here in America." Trump is referring to a handful of members of the Democratic Socialists of America, who
just won some Democratic primaries. In safe blue districts like in New York City, those wins may not matter, since a Democrat was expected to win their anyway. But many Democrats are worried that in swing states and districts, they could be nominating
“candidates that are too far left to win a general election.”
"Our Aliason NPR News" Funeral commemorations for Iran's Supreme Leader continued today in Tehran. In Piers Hadil Al-Shalchi reports, "He and four of his family members were killed in U.S. Israeli air strikes for months ago." Tenz of thousands of Iranians lined up to perform the ritual Islamic funeral prayers facing the caskets of Ayutullah Ali Hamanayi and his four family members.
Iranian state media showed Iranian military and political officials sobbing as they perform the prayers. Water sprayed over the mourners to keep them cool as the temperatures reached the 90s. Every of Hamanayi's sons were seen at the prayers, missing was his fourth son, Mustafa Hamanayi, who took over a supreme leader from his father. A funeral preparation spokesperson said the funeral was delayed until now, because of the war, Hamanayi will be buried in his birthplace of Mushad on Thursday.
Hadil Al-Shalchi and PR News, Istanbul Concerns over lethal injection methods are mounting in Tennessee, or state correction officials fail to execute a man in May. Tony Gonzalez, with Member Station WPLN reports, "Hi, ranking Republicans in the state are now calling for an independent investigation." Medical contractors couldn't establish an IV into the arms or chest of Tony Carruthers.
After about an hour, Governor Billy called off the execution on May 20. The man's death row attorneys had been warning about inadequate training, now a group of state senators, all Republicans who say they support the death penalty have written to the governor, seeking an independent review. We say the Department of Corrections showed it wasn't competent, they want to know the credentials of those involved and whether training is sufficient.
Tennessee paused executions for about three years after finding the prior protocol had never been fully followed.
The rules were then revised, but continued to draw scrutiny. For NPR News, I'm Tony Gonzalez and Nashville. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. In a less-minute twist, FIFA says U.S. striker for Leron Baligan can play in tomorrow's U.S. men World Cup soccer game round of 16 against Belgium. He had been given a red card and a one-game suspension in the game against Bosnia Herzegovina after getting his legs tangled with a Bosnia defender as they went for a ball and Baligan stepped on his ankle.
He says that was unintentional. FIFA's disciplinary committee says the one-game suspension will itself be suspended for a one-year probationary period. The Food and Drug Administration has expanded the approval of the first gene editing treatment for sickle cell disease to younger children, and here's Rob Stein has more. Cachevy says the approval makes more than 5,500 kids eligible for the treatment in the U.S. Sickle cell disease is an inherited blood disorder that causes devastating pain attacks and eventually life-threatening complications.
“Cachevy works by editing a gene that controls the production of a crucial blood protein.”
The FDA also expanded approval of the treatment to younger children suffering from a related blood disorder known as beta thalcemia. Rob Stein and Pyrenees. And I'm Janine Herbst and PR News in Washington.
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