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Democrats in Maine are expected to choose who will challenge Republican Senator Susan Collins
in the midterms this fall.
“The front rudder is a professional logger and former Maine Senate president with a populist”
message. Kevin Miller with Maine Public Radio has the story. Troy Jackson campaigned several times with Maine's former Democratic nominee. Even now the grand platinum is out, Jackson says he's the best person to rally the Democrats and independence.
"We're not from the left, we're not from the right, we're some the bottom and we're rise. And I know what happens when we work at people's side that they've had enough." Jackson served six years as Maine's Senate president, with his track record on workers'
rights and pledged to support single payer health care.
He appears to have the support of the majority of delegates who will select a new nominee. His only opponent is Sandra Pellettier, a political newcomer and biopharmaceutical executive. For NPR News, I'm Kevin Miller. President Trump has announced a new round of global tariffs as Katherine Osborne reports the new levees are getting sharp blowback from around the world.
The Trump administration put new tariffs of 10 to 12.5% on more than 80 countries, saying they didn't do enough to fight forced labor. Brazil rejects that claim. It says it's ratified more treaties on the issue than the United States at the International Labor Organization.
Trump has often tussled with Brazil's left-wing government. But other South American countries with more pro-Trump presidents also got the higher 12.5% tariff level. They include Chile, where one official says the U.S. accusations did not match the facts. For NPR News, I'm Katherine Osborne in Rio de Janeiro.
“India's Education Minister has tendered his resignation, meeting a key demand of student-led”
protesters who have been demonstrating across the country. Those protests pose the most serious challenge in years to the rule of Prime Minister Nurendra Modi, as NPR's Dia Hadid reports. Minister Darmendra Pradans resignation was met with joy among protestors, but protestly to said students had two more demands, action against police who attacked thousands of protestors
trying to march on to Parliament on Monday, and compensation to the families of students who died by suicide after learning they would have to retake a medical entry exam. After the Education Ministry canceled the results of the initial tests in May, saying some questions were leaked. That leak was a trigger for these protests.
With the Minister's resignation, its unclear if protest leaders will be able to maintain momentum against the government, or whether this emboldened students to make more demands of the government, which tried to ignore them for weeks.
“The Hadeed and Piano's Tripoli finds the average gas prices are up to $4.11 a gallon”
for regular. That's up to $12 a gallon from a week ago. You're listening to NPR News in Washington. Belgian authorities have arrested an intern at NATO's military headquarters on suspicion of spying.
Terry Schultz reports a NATO official says the incident does not appear to have affected a lion's operations. The Belgian federal public prosecutor's office says a Canadian woman of Chinese origin was
placed under arrest Friday and charged with suspected espionage on behalf of a third country
following searches of her home in workplace. The suspect is an intern at NATO's military headquarters known as shape, which sits about an hour's drive south of Brussels. Colonel Mario Donald is the shape spokesman. At this time, there is no indication that NATO or shape operational readiness, commanding controller
arrangements or ongoing tasks have been inversely affected. Belgian authorities say the military alliances security services were the first to pick up on the woman's suspicious activities and a joint preliminary investigation with Belgian authorities was carried out before the Friday arrest. For NPR News, I'm Terry Schultz in Brussels.
Three new women's world records have been set at the Lumberjack World Championships in Hayward, Wisconsin. The event was filled with sawing, chopping, and logging. Karolina Erbinova from the Czech Republic set records in the women's underhand shop and the women's standing shop.
Meredith Ingridson of Hayward set the record for the women's boom run, which involves sprinting across the water and back over eight red cedar logs in 13.78 seconds. 66 men and 40 women from 16 states and nine countries took part in this competition. I'm Linda Kenyan, NPR News in Washington.
