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President Trump is expected to arrive to dover air force based soon to attend the
“dignified transfer of U.S. service members killed by Iranian strikes in recent days.”
Four American service members have been killed in the Middle East since Friday. The remains will be returned to the troops' families. President Trump made new threats against Iran online this morning. P.R.'s Franco or Damias reports on the potential political consequences of the war. The defense secretary was on Capitol Hill as well yesterday asking for billions more to cover
the costs of the war. All that is likely to have political impacts, especially as the mid-terms approach. Now Trump ran for office criticizing passwords in the Middle East. Trump wants to sell Americans on this narrative that things are going great in the U.S. stock market is hitting record highs at inflation is dropping, but having American serving
overseas killed by Iranian strikes runs counter to that. That's NPR's Franco or Damias reporting. Republican campaign committees have vastly more cash than their Democratic counterparts heading into the mid-terms.
“And P.R.'s Tamar Keith takes a closer look at the latest filings with the Federal Election”
Commission. All told the Republican Party campaign committees and the MAGA Inc. Super PAC ended June
with more than $1 billion cash on hand.
The President's Super PAC alone has more than $400 million in the bank. Though it isn't clear yet, how much of it will get spent in the mid-terms to defend Republican control of Congress. Meanwhile, the Democratic National Committee is at a negative $2 million if you take debt into account.
Combined, the Democratic committees are trailing the Republican committees by more than $700 million. Democratic candidates, however, have raised significant sums directly to their campaigns. Tamar Keith and PR News. Ben Crump, the attorney for the family of Nolan Wells, shared their preliminary findings in the family's independently commissioned autopsy this morning.
The cause and manner of death were found to be undetermined, pending investigation.
The 18-year-old's body was found offshore after a July 4th boat trip, Wells who was black
had gone with a group of all-white friends to Horn Island off the Mississippi coast. The state's official autopsy is ongoing. Ukrainian President Velodimir Zelensky has fired the country's top military commander, and PR's Greg Myri reports. In a late-night social media post, President Zelensky dismissed the head of the Armed Forces,
General Alexander Serzky.
“The General, aged 60, was credited with winning several key battles in recent years, but”
he's also a Soviet-trained officer who favored rigid battlefield tactics. He clashed with the popular defense minister, 35-year-old Mikhailov Fedorov, a leading advocate of innovative drone warfare. This is NPR News. Researchers have discovered a kind of transmissible skin cancer in catfish and a lake that stretches
from the province of Quebec into Vermont. NPR's aerodynamic aerodynamic says it may have important things to teach us about how tumors are spread. More than a decade ago, all of a sudden, Melanome's started showing up on brown bullhead catfish in Lake Memph from Aegog.
Peter Emerson is a fish biologist with the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department. It looks like black, tar on the skin. Not very pretty. Melanome is don't appear to be caused by anything in the environment. Rather, when researchers sequenced the DNA of the fish and their cancers, they found
the tumors resembled one another closely. Suggesting the cancers are clones that likely arose in a fish some time ago and have been spreading from catfish to catfish ever since. The research may provide clues about how cancer migrates and metastasizes within our own bodies.
Ari Daniel and PR news President Trump's nominee to become the next director of the CDC faces a Senate committee vote this week. Dr. Erica Schwartz is a former deputy surgeon general. Open AI is reporting what it describes as an unprecedented cyber incident. And the company says its artificial intelligence technology acted autonomously hacking into
the systems of an AI startup called hugging face. Ben AI CEO Sam Altman says in a statement the security incident compromised hugging faces infrastructure. I'm Christian Wright and this is NPR news from Washington. Support for one of here this podcast without sponsor bricks.
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