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French President Emmanuel Macron visited firefighters battling blazes around the southwestern
“city of Bordeaux, Monday, and Pierre Zellner Beardsley reports that a fourth-heat wave”
is expected mid-week, which will make conditions increasingly difficult. Macron paid homage to the two firefighters who have died fighting the blazes in the forest and countryside of the's-year-old region around Bordeaux, more than 200,000 people have been evacuated as aggressive and unpredictable fires rip through parched forests in countryside. Temperatures will top 100 degrees again this week in the fourth-heat wave of the summer.
Scientists say firefighters are contending with a new phenomenon, immense fire clouds created by extreme wildfires that then create their own wind and lightning sparking fresh blazes, known as fire clouds or pyro-cumulo-nimbus clouds, scientists say they are new to France and another consequence of human cause climate change. Eleanor Beardsley and Pierre News, Simone Oaks-Waw, France.
The fires in France, as well as in Spain, are historic and scope of fire west of the Spanish capital Madrid, it spans largest on record. In Michigan, Monday, President Trump watched General Motors vehicles compete in drag races
“and visited a GM facility in suburban Detroit, where he defended his tariff policies.”
A place historic tariffs on foreign producers and manufacturers, including a 25% tariff on foreign automobile, something that no other President had occurred to ever do. Trump's tariffs have affected many businesses in Michigan where the economy relies heavily on trade with Canada, early voting is underway for Michigan's primary next week, Republicans hope to flip a Senate seat there.
The man convicted of killing four college students in Idaho almost four years ago as filed a petition to reopen his case, from Boise State Public Radio, Lauren Patterson reports. Brian Coberker is serving four life sentences in prison, following his conviction last July. He's now filed a petition for post-conviction relief, and court records suggest he's representing himself.
In an interview from prison, Coberker told the New York Times he's seeking to abandon his guilty plea and have a trial. He said his guilty plea, quote, "hinged on false promises and blatant disinformation and must be withdrawn." Coberker is claiming ineffective legal counsel, saying his lawyers failed to disclose
or review exculpatory evidence, according to a handwritten filing made public by court officials and cited by the Times. For NPR News, I'm Lauren Patterson in Oraphino, Idaho.
"A man hunt is ongoing in Seattle, police still searching for a third suspect linked to Sunday
shooting at a food festival near the space needle," authorities say a 15-year-old was arrested at the scene a second suspect killed during the shootout. This is NPR News. The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to allow the President's executive order on mail-in voting to be implemented nationwide ahead of the November mid-term elections.
The order is aimed at tightening restrictions on mail-in voting. The administration's request follows an appeals court decision that upheld judges willing that prevents enforcement of the order in 23 mostly democratic states in Washington, DC. While litigation plays out, they had challenged it as "unconstitutional."
“Sudan's army has retaken a key highway from the paramilitary group.”
It's been fighting in a brutal civil war. The highway links the Capitol with a region that's facing a humanitarian crisis as Cape Bartlett reports. The retaking of the highway by government forces would block the rapid support forces
attempts to seize Alibair, about half a million people are trapped in the city, facing
intense drone strikes from the paramilitary group. Earlier this month, the UN's Human Rights Chief warned of possible atrocities happening in and near the city. The UN has also described a "jule terror facing women in the city" as they face drone strikes going to fetch water during the day and risk sexual violence if they go to water distribution
sites at night. Sudan is the world's worst humanitarian crisis, with more than 14 million people displaced. Kate Bartlett, NPN News, Johannesburg. The oil prices are easing after the U.S. pause strikes on Iran over the weekend. The price for a barrel of brink crude to be delivered in September is now below 87 dollars
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