Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Wilman.
There is breaking news tonight, several people have been injured in a shooting near the
“space-needled in Seattle, police are urging people to avoid the area.”
The shooting took place at a venue, hosting the bite of Seattle food festival. Is really Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is traveling to the U.S. on Monday for a meeting Tuesday with President Trump. The two will talk about the war in Iran and other issues. It's been a pause in U.S. attacks on Iran over the past two days, but Israel has
indicated that if the fighting resumes, it is willing to join with the U.S. and PR's Emily Fang has more. Netanyahu convened a cabinet meeting before departing for the U.S., where he'll attend the funeral of the late Senator Lindsey Graham, who was staunchly pro-Israel, and then Netanyahu will meet Trump on Tuesday.
Iran's military spokesperson said Tehran believes Israel is trying to push the U.S. to expand attacks on Iran, and in his really polled last month, more than 90% of his rarely said they believed that now a band and ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran favored Iranian interests.
“In addition to Iran, Netanyahu is concerned about a nuclear energy agreement, the U.S.”
just signed with Saudi Arabia, something Israel has long opposed, because they fear the kingdom a one day try to develop a nuclear weapon. Emily Fang and PR News, Tel Aviv. There are just 100 days left until November's midterm elections, and both parties say they have the lead.
At stake is who controls the House and the Senate. Minority House leader Hakim Jeffries, joined Pennsylvania Democratic Governor Josh Shapiro at a rally in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania today, where he said the Democratic Party is the one speaking for every day Americans. Maga Republicans can find money for Donald Trump's reckless war of choice in Iran.
They can find money for his king-like ballroom. They can find money to unleash ice brutality on American citizens and law-abiding immigrant families. But when it comes to making your life more affordable, the cookie jar is empty. Also at stake in the fall of several governorships.
Dozens of wildfires are burning across the Pacific Northwest at this hour, forcing thousands of people to evacuate and stretching limited firefighting resources.
“Remember station Oregon Public Broadcasting, Joni Audenland, as our reports.”
Oregon had record low snowfall this past winter. That has led the several wildfires exploding across the region this past week. The bench fire erupted Saturday night in forced thousands to evacuate from the tribal community of warm springs. Just a canoeier of the Oregon Department of Forestry says there aren't enough firefighters
available on the ground. We are definitely looking at fires and having to start prioritizing which ones are going to be staffed appropriately with how we want to stop each fire to try and help as best we can. Parts of Central and Eastern Oregon are also experiencing dangerous air quality because of
the wildfire smoke. For NPR News, I'm Joni Audenland in Portland, Oregon. And you're listening to NPR News. In its first 10 days in theaters, Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey is breeze past a half billion dollars in ticket sales, and NPR's Bob Mondello has our details.
Perhaps appropriately for a tale of a mythical regaro who wondered the ancient world for decades, the Odyssey is proving to have what the film industry calls "lakes".
Where most blockbusters drop by about 50 percent in their second weekend, this epic adventure
is off by just 19 percent. It is expected to take in $87 million in North America and another 128 million overseas, which means that after zipping past half a billion dollars in ticket sales on Friday, it will end this weekend with a 10 day total of almost $640 million worldwide. That's a faster box office space than any previous Christopher Nolan film,
including Oppenheimer and his Batman films, and it suggests the Odyssey will become the filmmaker's third film to top a billion dollars in ticket sales, Bob Mondello and PR News. Jackson Coifin won the PGA Tournament in Minnesota Sunday, he held off Scotty Schaffler with the closing 566. That gave him a tournament record, 2500-259 total. His win came and only his third start as a professional, world number one Scotty Schaffler started back in
the pack on Sunday morning, but he finished with a 63, which was enough to give him second place, three strokes off the pace. And again, our breaking news tonight, several people have been injured in a shooting near the space needed a needle in Seattle, police are urging people to avoid the area that the shooting took place to the venue hosting the bite of Seattle food festival. I'm Dale Wilman, NPR News. Just over a year ago, Congress eliminated more than
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