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LINE from NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi saying, "Let us grown in Mexico...

link to a cyclist's borough outbreak in multiple states, and PR's Allison Aubrey reports

the Food and Drug Administration is advising people not to consume shredded iceberg

lettuce served at Taco Bell locations in the affected states." The multi-state outbreak includes cyclist's borough cases in Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and West Virginia investigators at the CDC found 1644 people infected with cyclist borough, reported eating Taco Bell in these five states. An analysis of 190 cyclist borough cases in Michigan where the person reported eating

at Taco Bell found 90% of those interviewed reported eating iceberg lettuce in a statement from Taco Bell. The company says it's taken immediate action to voluntarily remove potentially impacted lettuce in these states, FDA's Traceback Investigation has identified a single supplier of iceberg lettuce from Mexico.

The dire real illness, which also leads to fatigue and loss of appetite, was first identified

in May and has hospitalized dozens, Alison Aubrey and PR News. Hundreds of wildfires are burning across parts of Canada, as well as in the United States

in their sending, thick plumes of smoke across the Midwest and the Northeast triggering alerts

for dangerously poor air quality. Many people are opting to wear masks today, despite the oppressive heat. Meteorologist Jeff Masters with Yale Climate Connections tells MPR News what he's been seeing outside his home in Michigan. Second straight dystopian sunrise this morning that kind of a hazy orange glow, I've been

shut up inside my house here with five happy units running and I don't go outside without a mask on. Meanwhile, Texas is enduring the aftermath of severe flooding that killed at least two people and resulted in hundreds of water rescues. Chelsea Zoo of Member Sation K. U.T. has that story.

Some cities in Texas have seen more than 20 inches of rain since Monday. Slow moving storms have repeatedly drenched large parts of the state, culminating in multiple flash flood emergencies. That's a rare designation from the National Weather Service for potentially historic life-threatening floods.

Nim kid with the Texas Division of Emergency Management said the impact of the storms is hard to predict. The way that this weather pattern is setting up is difficult for the models that the meteorologist used to tell us exactly where it's going to fall and exactly how much is going to fall. This week's flooding comes a little more than a year after the devastating July 4th weekend

floods swept Texas, killing over 130 people. For MPR News, I'm Chelsea Zoo in Austin. The U.S. has carried out more military strikes against Iran. They struck a tower at a key Iranian port as well as bridges this morning. President Trump had threatened to begin attacking Iranian infrastructure as both carry out

retaliatory strikes. From Washington, this is NPR News. The United Kingdom's ruling party has named the former mayor of Manchester, England and the Bernam as its leader, and that paves the way for him to succeed, Kirstarmer as Prime Minister on Monday.

NPR's "Learn Flair" has more from London. My honor to declare that the Julie elected leader of the Labour Party is Andy Bernam. Bernam succeeds caretaker Prime Minister Starmer, whom polls showed failed to convince voters that change was coming and it rising costs of living and slow growth.

In his first speech as ruling party leader, Bernam said the U.K. has "turned its back

on working-class communities" that were once the centre-left Labour Party's base.

"That's what we're going to do, everybody.

We're going to give them hope back." He promised to unite his party reverse the privatization of various industries and devolve power away from the capital to municipal and regional authorities. Bernam's expected to meet the king and get sworn in as Prime Minister on Monday. Bernflair and Pair News London The federal aviation administration is allowing Boeing

to resume the certification of its 737 MAX and 787 planes starting next week. The FAA's announcement today follows months of review by the agency. It finds the Boeing's final safety checks meet the threshold for ensuring an aircraft's

air worthiness. The FAA took over 737 MAX approvals in 2019 after the second of two crashes

was blamed on a new software system that Boeing installed on the aircraft. This is NPR. On the latest NPR politics podcast, we separate fact from fiction in President Trump's prime time address on election security. Two things can be true at the same time.

We have ignored vulnerabilities in our voting system for a long time and there is no evidence of election was rigged in 2020. The truth and the politics behind President Trump's claims about voter fraud.

On the latest episode of the NPR politics podcast.

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