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Democrats in Bangor, Maine today nominated Troy Jackson, a fifth-generation logger and former
“legislative leader to take on Republican Senator Susan Collins.”
This is one of the nation's closest watch congressional races as Kevin Miller with Maine Public Radio reports. Jackson received all but five of the 571 votes cast by Democratic delegates during a special convention. He replaces Graham Platner, an oisterman and Marine Corps veteran who withdrew earlier
this month. Like Platner, Jackson pledged to work toward universal health care to protect abortion rights and to stand up to the Trump administration. "And are you ready to defeat Susan Collins?"
"Well, unless you night this party, let's build the largest working class movement
Maine has ever seen and let's win this fight." Jackson will now face Collins, a 30-year Senate veteran who is the only Republican member of Congress from New England. For NPR News, I'm Kevin Miller.
“"A mid-the U.S. lead war against Iran, a dormant, decade-long conflict between Saudi Arabia”
and Iran-backed militants in Yemen has erupted again, more from NPR's Emily Feng." Saudi Arabia has been trading fire with Iran-backed Houthis and Yemen starting two weeks ago. This week, the Houthis announced a blockade of the Babel-Mendip street, which Saudi Arabia is increasingly using to export its oil internationally, because another waterway, the
straitler for mous, is effectively cut off by Iran. All this will further disrupt maritime traffic and global trade. The Houthis fired at two Saudi ships in the Red Sea this week, so Saudi Arabia then struck a port in Yemen and a Yemeni island on Friday, and in further retaliation, the Houthis say they've now aimed strikes at a city in Saudi Arabia this weekend.
Emily Feng and Pyreneus have fast-moving wildfires continued to burn in southern Europe this weekend, and Pyreneus
“Eleanor Beardsley reports evacuations are underway.”
French Prime Minister Sebastian Lekoul News had the fire had reached, conditions that, quote,
"We have never seen before, and that more than 141,000 people have been evacuated from
the Jirond and Lond region, which lie close to Bordeaux." President manual Macron has mobilized the army to assist, as firefighters battle blazes they say are spreading quickly in high winds and across parts planned. Fires are also raging near the Spanish capital of Madrid, so I need to say Europe is heating faster than other places on the planet due to man-made global warming conditions.
Three consecutive heat waves have left drought conditions across the continent. EU figures say more than 1200 fires have already burned through 600,000 acres this year, Eleanor Beardsley and Pyreneus. This maros final stage of the tour to France, the annual cycling race that ends in Paris, will be shortened because security forces have been reassigned to help with fires.
You're listening to NPR News from New York City. A teaching assistant robot named Sally was supposed to be introduced to a high school on the Seneca Nation Reservation in New York this fall, but criticism from parents and concerns over data collection have the program on hold for now. Budget shortfalls and declining enrollment in the US are top concerns for K through
12 school leaders, that's according to a recent survey from the non-partisan research organization Rand, and Pyreneus Caden Mills reports. The nationally representative survey conducted in the spring, found that school districts are trying to address their funding gaps, in part, by competing for students. The survey asked leaders from 38 school districts to rank their top concerns, among them
were rising costs and declining revenues. The cost of services has increased, and state funding has not kept up. Many of the schools surveyed say they are attempting to address budget shortfalls by increasing their enrollment. Some are experimenting with marketing campaigns and increased services, like expanding options
for extra curriculars and pre-K programs, though Rand acknowledges that already tight budgets don't leave much room for that. Caden Mills and PR news In southern China, hundreds of thousands of people living near the coast of Guangdong are evacuating ahead of typhoon null. China's National Immunerological Center says null is expected to make landfill early Sunday
morning around the cities of Shenzhen and Haifeng, with possible maximum sustained winds of 90 miles per hour in Hong Kong hundreds of flights have already been cancelled, and public transportation including high-speed bullet trains have been suspended. This is NPR. Without federal funding, we are relying on your support now.
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