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address tonight," he says the focus is election security. Trump continues to repeat falsely
“that the 2020 election was rigged against him. Tonight's speech comes amid heightened hostilities”
with Iran, and as MPR's Franco-Ordonya's reports, the war could affect voters' decisions in the fall midterms. "Forn policy rarely dominates midterm elections. This year may be the exception. It's John McHenry, a Republican pollster with North Star opinion research, says exit polls, for example, are less likely to cite the war in Iran as a reason for people's vote, and more likely to cite energy prices in the economy, which are driven by the war.
"Because gas prices have a ripple effect on everything." "Prices, you know, in every retail shop at the grocery store go up because, you know, a gallon of milk doesn't walk to the grocery
store. It gets driven there by a truck." "That could change if the war expands, and, for example,
President Trump commits troops to the conflict, which he's been reluctant to do." Franco-Ordonya's MPR news. "The military will begin screening service members over a 30-year-old for low-test hostarone. It's an initiative that Defense Secretary Pete Hegsaath announced on social media yesterday, and PR's Will Stone has more." Hegsaath says service members will be screened and have the option to pursue testosterone replacement therapy if their levels are low.
But guidelines from major medical groups do not recommend routine screening for testosterone, unless a man has symptoms. Dr. Jayman Brombada, yourologist at Orlando Health, says research shows testosterone can help mental health, focus, bone health, and muscle mass. "There's lots of benefits, whether I can extrapolate that into like people out there in the front
“lines. I really can't." Brombada says what's key is that you're restoring testosterone to a normal”
range, not boosting it to unnatural levels. Will Stone and B.R. News. "Texins in the south-central region of the state are dealing with floods today. This comes as a result of more than 30 inches of rain falling throughout the area over 48 hours. So far, one death has been reported. The Texas news rooms blaze Gany has more." Governor Greg Abbott is asking Texans to pay attention to flood alerts throughout the rest of the week. As more rain is expected, floods are confirmed in the hill country
area, as well as in other areas along the Guadalupe River. Abbott says the damage is not yet done. "There are massive challenges in your valley, as well as other regions, and in fact, people need to understand to expect very meaningful flooding in the real grand." This flood comes a year after more than 130 people were lost due to a flash flood in the hill country area of Texas. Several camp attendees lost their lives. This time around Abbott says the camps along the river are not in danger.
For in PR News, I'm Blaze Gany in Austin. U.S. Docs closed lower today amid a tech sell-off in a new wave of U.S. strikes against Iran. It's NPR. Hollywood anticipation is high for the premiere of Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, and PR's Bob Mandelo reports that some IMAX theaters had sold every ticket for opening weekend shows a full year ago. "Just putting tickets on sale a year in advance was unprecedented for a Hollywood blockbuster
at the Kazakitum waiting for key." But Christopher Nolan, director of the Dark Knight Batman trilogy and best-picture Oscar winner, Oppenheimer, has super fans. So when the 25 North American theaters equipped to show the Odyssey in the biggest of wide-screen formats, IMAX 70 millimeter, first put tickets on sale for this weekend's screenings back in July of last year, the fans bought up every ticket. "Help me go home." Happily for general audiences,
considering that the Odyssey has received near unanimous critical raves,
tickets are still available at the 450 IMAX theaters in the U.S. that are not equipped for 70 millimeter and in more than 3,000 conventional theaters, Bob Mandelo and PR News.
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