"Lie from MPR News, I'm Jail Snyder.
He runs late supreme leader, the Ayutolali Haminayn has been laid to rest months after
“the U.S. and Israeli air strike set killed him.”
MPR's Hadile Oshalchi reports." Earlier in the day, Iranian state media showed huge crowds swarming the truck carrying the casket of Ayutolali Haminayn, and four of his killed family members, as it made its way through his birthplace Meshhat. People wearing black spilled into the streets to perform the ritual Islamic funeral prayers
facing the casket, draped in the Iranian flag. Iranian state media reported that army fighter jets were flying over the skies of Meshhat to secure them for the last day of the funeral. On Wednesday, U.S. sent com said its struck Iranian military installations in retaliation
for Iranian strikes on ships in the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran responded by targeting U.S. military bases in Kuwait and Bahrain. Iran's health ministry says that at least 14 people were killed by the U.S. air strikes in nearly 80 others wounded.
“The main Democratic Party says it's working on a planned to replace Graham Platner”
as a U.S. Senate nominee. The party has released a statement saying it will host an dominating convention to select his replacement, Kevin Miller, is with main public. Some of the biggest names are hearing our former Senate President True Rejax and he's in a long time Bernie Sanders supporter kind of running a very similar populist campaign.
He's just ran for governor and two other governor candidates. We had Darov Shah, a more former main CDC director and our current Secretary of State Shena Bellows. Shena has not said she's officially running but she's said she's interested. There are a couple of former congressional candidates.
The Trump administration has removed the remaining leadership at the election assistance commission and independent agency that provides the election support to states that move follows the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling last month, giving presidents a free or hand in removing members of independent federal agencies. At least 600 people have now died from a bull on the Democratic Republic of Congo, or more
than 1,700 people have gotten sick. In Pierce, Jonathan Lamber reports on science, the outbreak is spreading beyond the DRC. Two new suspected Ebola cases were reported in Kiss and Johnny, nearly 500 miles west of the hardest hit atori province. If confirmed, that'd bring the total number of affected provinces to four. Africa CDC epidemiologist Wes and Mancula called the situation
dire. This is the fastest growing Ebola outbreak ever. In a press conference, he highlighted some good news, for instance, more than 2,000 Ebola tests are being processed each day.
“But health officials are still struggling with contact tracing, which is key to slowing down”
the outbreak. Ideally, nearly all new cases would come from known contacts, but right now, only about
a third of new cases are, underlining the virus's unchecked spread.
Jonathan Lamber and PR news is a ZMPR. Former Olympic canoe racer David Hurn has pleaded not guilty to deliberately damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Hurn entered the Blue and D.C. Superior Court Thursday, he faces a felony count of property destruction.
Hurn's attorney says the charges are based on what they call a concocted narrative. U.S. attorney Janine Piero says six others have been arrested on related charges. Asian shares are advancing in Friday trading led by chip stocks and shares in artificial intelligence companies, South Korea's benchmark leading the way up more than 3%. The head of the Smithsonian, defending the institution after a White House report accused
of the National Museum of American History, a being driven by, quote, "radical activist ideology" in PR's Anastasia Siolkis reports. The Trump administration's Domestic Policy Council issued a 162-page report on July 4, accusing the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C., of telling a story of, quote, "Rugret, Tragedy, and Shame."
In response, Lonnie G. Bunch III sent a memo to Smithsonian's staffers, which NPR has obtained. In that email, Bunch said this Smithsonian's work is, quote, "driven by scholarship, accuracy, and an uncompromising commitment to tell the fullness of America's story." According to the Smithsonian's charter, all of its museums, 14 education and research centers and the National Zoo are meant to be run independently of the federal government.
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