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Democrats in Maine have officially selected a former state Senate president and fifth-generation
logger, Troy Jackson, as their party's nominee, to face off against longtime Republican incumbent Senator Susan Collins, and parapolitical reporter Elena Moore reports. Emmett Lynn, he'sly walking her dog by the harbor over in Bellfast Maine, she told me she volunteered a bunch for Platner's campaign, and though Jackson has her vote, she says the campaign shake-up sucked some of the energy out of this movement for her.
I'm not completely like done and given up.
“That's a personality thing, and I think what's most important is whether the job gets done.”
Other Jackson supporters are still really excited, though. I talk to University of Maine, PhD student, and delegate Aurora Green. This isn't about Graham Platner, this isn't even about Troy Jackson, this is about a movement of working class manners and workers. And Pierce Elena Moore reporting.
The number of people enrolled in SNAP, the Federal Food Assistance Program, has been falling since last July when President Trump's huge tax and spending bill led to sweeping changes, and Pierce Juliana Kim reports.
SNAP participation dropped by over 4 million people from last July to this April, that's
according to the left-leaning center on budget and policy priorities. It's been particularly drastic in Arizona, where 400,000 viewer people receive the food benefits.
“St. Mary's Food Bank, which operates across the state, is distributing more food than ever”
according to its President-Milt Lou. These kinds of increases can't be supported by just food banks. The USDA says the decline in SNAP enrollment isn't representative of anyone policy, but it does come as the program undergoes major changes from expanded work requirements to reduced federal funding, Juliana Kim and Pierre News.
Russia has launched another ballistic missile at Ukraine's Capital, striking a residential
building. This comes hours after Ukrainian President, after Ukrainian drones hit a holiday camp in the Russian occupied Zabrija region overnight, killing at least 12 people, including five children. From Moscow and Pierce Charles Mains reports on Ukraine's attacks in the interior of Russia. For the 10th time this week, Ukraine attacked warehouses of the online retailer WildBerry's,
“a company often considered Russia's version of Amazon.com.”
This time-browns targeted a WildBerry's facility in a Catronburg, the main city in Russia's year old mountains, Kiev has justified the strikes by accusing WildBerry's of providing drone technology and other components to Russia's military, a claim the company denies. It attacks have also come in addition to months of Ukraine targeting Russia's energy infrastructure, and the latest authorities in the Siberian city of Tumen said drone struck an oil refinery
without detailing the scale of the damage incurred. Charles Mains impure news. Moscow. And you're listening to NPR from New York City. In Germany's capital, the famed Pride Parade, the draws tens of thousands of people has
been cancelled, after a driver hit a crowd of people killing at least one person and injured at least 16 others, an active pursuit of the driver is underway, and a police spokesperson says, "At this point, we don't know anything about possible motives." The International Energy Agency says renewables are set to overtake coal as an electricity source this year, as NPR's Julia Simon reports, "The shift is largely driven by the growth
of solar energy." In their electricity mid-year update, the agency says global renewable energy is forecast to grow 8% in 2026. Natural gas outlet is projected to stay mostly flat, a big part of what's hampering natural gas growth are high prices, falling the US is really war with Iran.
Five months after the conflict began, European natural gas prices are more than 90% higher. Asian natural gas prices are more than 105% higher. Meanwhile, solar and battery installations are booming around the world. Such experts say 2026 may go down in history books, as the year that the world made a significant pivot away from planet-heating fossil fuels, Julia Simon and Pianos.
A controversial humanoid 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. I'm Doah Lee Psych outtown, and PR News in New York. Please show your support before the end of the month, visit plus.nbr.org.
