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Maine Democrats voted 566 to five, approving Troy Jackson, a fifth-generation logger and
“former legislative leader to take on Republican Senator Susan Collins, Kevin Miller with”
Maine Public Radio reports on one of the nation's closest watch congressional races. 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. The United Nations Secretary General is visiting Damascus this weekend.
“The first time ahead of the UN has visited Syria in more than 15 years and Paris' Emily”
Fang reports. The UN's Secretary General and Tonya Gutierrez landed in Damascus and was welcome by Syria's Foreign Minister, Gutierrez's predecessor, last visited Syria in 2009, about two years later, as the whole war began and consumed Syria for the better part of the next 14 years.
Gutierrez's visit in other visits by heads of state have come as the new government in Syria, and normalizes ties with the outside world. But Gutierrez has also expressed concern about two serious deadly bouts of sectarian violence in Syria that left thousands of civilians dead, mostly from Syria's minority groups. In violent attacks by militant groups are down, but they continue.
During a visit by the French President to Syria early this month, two bombs Syria said were set by ISIS cells went off. Emily Fang and Pire News.
“President Trump's latest set of tariffs comes at a challenging time for the U.S. economy.”
They're also raising concerns about the cost of living among American households, and Paris's Rafael Naut reports.
The White House frames the sweeping new tariffs ranging from 10 to 12.5 percent as a matter
of human rights and market fairness. Although they are not significantly higher than the temporary ones they were placing, economists caution that we likely have a negative economic impact. The budget lab at Yale University estimates it could drive up consumer inflation by 0.7 percentage points, and will blew it equivalent to attacks of nearly $1,100 a year on American
households. And that, at a time when many families are already struggling with high gas prices and paying more at the grocery store, and they will continue the uncertainty being felt by American businesses. Rafael Naut, NPR News.
This is NPR. A fire fighter who has been hospitalized with burn injuries since last month has died. Colorado's wildfire season has now killed five crew members. Colorado Public Raising Radio's Steena Sieg reports that firefighters across the state continue to battle several large wildfires that have destroyed hundreds of homes and
forced evacuations of thousands of people. 43-year-old Nathan Matthews have Lincoln Nebraska was an a group of firefighters caught by a large wildfire in late June. Though the crew opened their individual fire shelters three died in that spot in rough terrain near the Utah border.
To use those in a two firefighters badly injured. Two weeks later, a pilot helping fight a different large wildfire died in a helicopter crash. Though Colorado's largest fires have significantly calmed, new blazes have continually sparked across the parched landscape.
Monsoon weather is helping crews, but most of the state remains in a serious drought. For MPR News, I'm Steena Sieg, in Grand Junction, Colorado. In southern China, hundreds of thousands of people living near the coast of Guangdong are evacuating ahead of Taifu Nall. China's National Meteorological Center says Nall is expected to make landfall early Sunday
around the cities of Shenzhen and Hifeng, with possible maximum sustained winds of 90 miles per hour. In Hong Kong, hundreds of flights have been canceled, and public transportation, including the high-speed bullet trains have also been suspended. I'm Duahli Psycho Town, and PR News from New York City.
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