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Federal immigration agents fatally shot a driver in Maine this morning, while attempting
to carry out an arrest warrant.
“But as Kevin Miller with Maine Public reports, one of Maine's senators now says the 26-year-old”
Colombian man was not the person ICE agents we're looking for. Independent Senator Angus King says Homeland Security Secretary Mark Wayne Mullin, initially told him that federal agents were seeking the man because he had been ordered to leave the country. King's office had Mullin subsequently informed the senator that the man had, in fact,
not been the target of that arrest warrant. Other details about the incident remain murky. King said Mullin told him the man had "weaponized the car before he was shot." And the office of Maine's attorney general said the man reportedly drove in the direction of the officer.
But an ICE spokesperson now says the officer was "fearing for public safety when they fired at the fleeing vehicle." For NPR News, I'm Kevin Miller, in August of Maine. South Carolina's governor has named Lindsay Graham's sister to serve the rest of his Senate term two days after his sudden death.
“She has no political experience but was close to her older brother.”
As South Carolina, public radio's Victoria Hanson reports. "Darling Graham accepted the governor's invitation to fill her brother's seat while a special election has held. The two lost her parents when they were young and he became per legal guardian. The mother of two has appeared in campaign adds for her brother over the years.
She says she's honored and addressed him directly." "Now to Lindsay, I miss you more than I can even put into words. But I'm going to do this. I got it." Darling Graham has worked for the South Carolina Commission for the Blind for the past seven
years. A special primary election will be held in August with potential candidates beginning to file next week. For MPR News, a Victoria Hanson, in Charleston, South Carolina. President Trump slashed the size of two national monuments in Utah today.
“The sites feature ancient cliff dwellings and scenic canyons and colon uranium deposits.”
As Chris Clements of Member Station K&AU reports, the move comes over the objections of tribal nations and conservation groups. Trump issued proclamations that reduce barriers and grants tear-case escalante by about 90% each. At a signing event with Utah Governor Spencer Cox, Trump said the reduction gives the land
back to the people of Utah.
Trump tried shrinking the monuments during his first term, but former President Biden
reversed the decision. Tim Peterson with the conservation nonprofit, Grand Canyon Trust, says the tribal nations that consider the monuments culturally significant weren't consulted. "That lack of consultation represents the violation of federal trust and treaty obligations to tribes."
A survey of Utah residents commissioned by the Trust in 2024 shows support for keeping both monuments at the size Biden determined. For NPR News, I'm Chris Clements in Flagstaff. It's NPR. Yemen's Houthi rebels are vowing to retaliate after accusing Saudi Arabia of bombing the
international airport in the Yemeni capital, and Piers J. Raff has more. "The Houthi-led government said Saudi air strikes hit the runway of Senna International Airport, and what a cold and escalation in its long-running conflict with a Saudi-led coalition. Saudi Arabia did not acknowledge the attack. Yemen's internationally recognized government, which is also backed by the Saudis, said it
carried out the air strikes to stop an Iranian plane with a Houthi delegation from returning home. The internationally recognized government controls Yemen's south while Houthi rebels controlled the North. Senna's airport was evacuated and the plane diverted to another airport after the strikes.
The attacks add to rising tension in the region after renewed U.S. air strikes on Iranian targets. J. Raff and Piers News, Aman. The European Union and Britain have imposed sanctions on Russian military intelligence officers, alleged hackers, and private companies.
The EU has accused them of links to a year's long cyber espionage campaign.
EU officials have in network has targeted governments and sabotaged critical infrastructure
such as heating and power plants since 2010. The operator of the Keystone Pipeline has agreed to pay nearly $27 million in penalties over a 2022 Kansas oil spill, a proposed legal settlement with the U.S. government would require the pipeline system's operator, South Bo, to pay the civil penalty, and spend about $40 million to prevent future accidents.
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