Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton.
Main's Democratic Party says it will hold a convention to replace U.S. Senate nominee
“Graham Platner if he drops out of the race.”
It comes after Platner was accused of rape this week and a statement the party says it held a meeting with over 100 state committee members who voted to hold the nominating convention if there is a vacancy. The potential end of the truce between Iran and the U.S. has renewed anxiety over gas prices and Piers Scott Horsley reports.
It's likely to mean higher prices, at least in the short run, gas prices had come down about 75 cents a gallon from their wartime peak, but there's still about 80 cents a gallon higher than they were before the U.S. and Israel started this war with Iran. Triple A says the average price of regular gas this morning was about $3.79 a gallon, and killed of says that's likely to bounce higher overnight.
The discount party at the pump is over, we're not going to see much relief. We should be going back over $4 a gallon, an national average here pretty quickly. And diesel prices are also likely to climb, and of course that has knock on effects for
“the cost of everything that gets trucked around the country or shipped around the world.”
And Piers Scott Horsley reporting, President Trump is taking Syria off a terrorism blacklist paving the way for more sanctions relief. He met with Syria's president on the sidelines of a NATO summit in Turkey as and Piers Michelle Kellerman reports. President Trump is praising Syrian leader Ahmed Al-Shara, a former militant for turning Syria
around following a devastating civil war. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says President Trump has notified Congress that the U.S. will take Syria off the State's sponsor of terrorism list, Rubio statements as that lifting sanctions will, quote, unlock international trade and investment, and give Syria a chance to rebuild and open up the new chapter.
Michelle Kellerman and PR news, the State Department. A new study from Johns Hopkins University finds gun homicides dropping years after hitting record highs during the pandemic, but arrives in other gun deaths, and PR at Scott
“Malcioni, from member station WIPR, has more researchers with the Johns Hopkins Center”
for gun violence solutions tracked U.S. gun mortality data from 2024, and they found that
while firearm homicides dropped about 16 percent from the previous year, the U.S. still
notched the fifth ever highest total gun deaths that year. The reasons because gun suicides are reaching record levels. And total there were about 44,500 gun deaths in the U.S. that year. The study found that black women experienced the highest increase in gun suicides over the past 10 years with a 169 percent increase in the rate.
Overall, gun suicides among the Latino population and Asian women also dramatically increased. For NPR News, I'm Scott Massioni, and Baltimore. This is NPR News. In an open letter, Kentucky Democratic Governor Andy Bashir is asking Republican Senator Mitch McConnell to disclose more about his health condition.
It's been three weeks since the 84-year-old former Republican leader was hospitalized with no update on his condition. That's led to rampant speculation about McConnell's prognosis and whether he'll run, return to the Senate when it reconvenes next week. Two streaming series, the pit and hacks are among the top Emmy nomination getters this
year and Piers Mondalito Barco reports. The medical drama, the pit, picked up 25 Emmy nominations, including one for the show's executive producer and star Noah Wiley, who plays an attending ER doctor. "Nothing will ever matter more than what I've done in this hospital, but it is killing me." The comedy series hacks earned a record breaking 24 Emmy nominations, including one for its
laid Jean Smart. "I'm back." "We'll be met like a summer." Another comedic actress, Iowa Debory, was the only regular cast member nominated from the FX series The Bear, but guest to our Rob Riner was nominated posthumously for his role as a business
man. "You beat me here, I love that." The Bear is competing for lead comedy series with other favorites, including shrinking and widows bay, Mondalito Barco and Pior News Los Angeles. The Artemis II astronauts who flew around the moon earlier this year are back in Florida
reunited with their capsule and launch team, Commander Reed Weisman and his crew thanked all those who helped send them on the record breaking flight.
It was humanity's first trip to the moon in more than half a century.
This is NPR News from Washington. For three weeks in 2020, part of my Seattle neighborhood was taken over by a protest occupation. "We were here to protest police brutality." But it ended in tragedy.
"The whole space felt darker and angrier." Join me as I investigate the unsolved killing of 16-year-old Antonio Maze Jr. Listen to Weak Keep Us Safe on the Embedded Podcast from NPR.
