Live from MPR News in Washington, I'm Linda Kenyan.
New wildfires in Oregon and Washington are blanketing parts of the northwest in dense
smoke.
“MPR's Kurt Seagler reports the wildfires are prompting a renewed round of air quality”
and health advisories. It's been smoky for weeks in eastern Oregon where massive range fires have black and tens of thousands of acres. Jenny Mo owns a popular bakery and has been doing what she can to keep replacing air filters and her swamp coolers to keep the smoke out.
You've got a lot of our elder community that cannot go out. You know, I've got a family friend that he's on oxygen and he hasn't been able to leave his house now for two weeks in the southwest. Some recent rains have helped clear the air, been wagners with the incident command team
on the Aspen Acres Fire, which has destroyed hundreds of homes near Pueblo, Colorado.
The rain has given us a reprieve and will take it. It's a win. But that reprieve may be short-lived.
“Most of the west has forecast a bacon heat for at least the next week.”
Kirk Sigler and Pure News, Boisey. German authorities have issued a wanted notice from the man suspected of driving a vehicle into the crowd during Berlin's annual Pride Parade yesterday. As Esme Nicholson reports, the fugitive suspect is wanted for killing one person and injuring at least 16 others.
Police are looking for 21-year-old Abdel B, who is believed to have fled the vehicle he drove into Berlin's Pride Demonstration. Authorities cite witness statements describing one or more suspects exiting the van and warn that the fugitive may be armed. They also say that several people were stabbed.
The suspect is known to police as a member of Islamic circles in the German capital. But authorities have not yet commented on a specific motive. Berlin Pride is one of Europe's largest LGBTQ+ events, from Pion News, I'm Esme Nicholson in Munich.
“Democrats in Maine have officially selected former state Senate President and Lager Troy Jackson”
as their new candidate for U.S. Senate. As in Pior's Elena Moore reports, Jackson replaces Graham Platner. Nearly 600 Maine Democrats serving as delegates participated in the nominating convention. It wasn't close, Jackson won all but five votes. It was an expected victory given nearly all of Jackson's primary rivals dropped out before
the convention, so in a speech after securing the nomination, Jackson looked forward, laying out his vision for the campaign, one rooted in economic populism. "If you believe that Maine deserves a center who will fight like hell for working class people will stand with us." He goes on to face longtime Republican incumbent Susan Collins this fall in a race that may
determine which party controls the Senate, Elena Moore and Pior News being gourmet. You're listening to NPR News in Washington. The Trump administration is set to end the temporary legal status of hundreds of thousands of Haitians living in the U.S., the move which could come as soon as tomorrow, could mean deportation and as NPR's Adrian Floreto reports, many fear being sent back to a country
full of violence. Last month, the Supreme Court allowed the administration to end temporary protected status for 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians. TPS has allowed them to live and work in the U.S. because of dangerous conditions in their countries.
The U.S. is ending TPS for Haitians despite acknowledging the dangers, much of Haiti is controlled by armed gangs. The San Val Saint got TPS in 2010, her 10 and 12-year-olds were born in San Diego and sing in the church choir. "And it's been full to say that it's our country, but we can go back."
Advocate to say if Congress doesn't intervene, tens of thousands of U.S. citizen children could be separated from their parents who'd rather leave them behind than risk their lives in Haiti, Adrian Floreto and Pior News. While we're Tuesday day landing beaches in northern France and Mount Olympus and Greece, among the sites added to the world heritage list.
A UN committee meeting in South Korea has been reviewing dozens of nominations. The French designation covers the five Normandy landing sites, Omaha, Utah, Sword, Gold, and Juno. 150,000 Allied troops came ashore on June 6, 1944 and were central to the campaign to liberate Western Europe from Nazi occupation.
I'm Linda Kenyan and Pior News, Washington.
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