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Colt Gray, the teenager who killed two students and two teachers at Georgia's Appalachia
“High School in 2024, was sentenced to date a life in prison without parole, Gray pleaded”
guilty to all 55 counts. His father Colin Gray will be sentenced on Thursday after a jury found him guilty of second-degree murder for providing the gun his son used.
First responders are searching damaged homes and buildings after a powerful tornado
struck Northeastern Wisconsin yesterday, and when a Bego County executive Gordon Hints says officials are still assessing the damage. "The depth of the tornado and its impact still are is incredible devastating and we're really still in the assessment phase of things. At the same time, we know that people are going without power on certainty about child
care, housing." The National Weather Service says the tornado touched down at around 1 p.m. yesterday remained on the ground for more than 20 minutes, as it cut a roughly 12-mile path of destruction. President Trump spoke at the funeral of South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham
“today, Trump called Graham a true American original, as NPR's deepest shiver on reports.”
Trump and Graham had an openly hostile relationship when the two were running for president
in 2016, but in his ulogy Trump-lauded Graham, who died earlier this month. "You went out of the peak of his career, the top of his game is a legend that everyone of us, many of us here today, blessed to know him and friend that none of us will ever forget. There was truly nobody like Lindsey Graham." Graham was a staunch advocate for U.S. support for Ukraine and Israel, before his death,
he authored a bill to put energy sanctions on Russia and used the relationship he'd built with Trump to secure White House support for it. Deepish Ivaram and PR News, The White House "The Senate is set to advance a bill pushed by Graham to sanction Russia, and PR's Claudia Griesali's report senators will also meet with Ukrainian president Vladimir Zelensky today."
A bipartisan contingent of U.S. senators will carry Graham's legislative effort forward
to approve a bill sanctioning Russia. People meet privately with Zelensky on Capitol Hill. The meeting also comes the same evening of a Senate session to take up the legislation. Supporters are confident the bill has enough bipartisan support in both chambers of Congress to get to President Trump's desk.
Before his death, Graham held a final press conference abroad after meeting with Zelensky to announce a deal had been reached with the Trump White House for the bill's support. Graham said he had been in talks with the White House for the past year to reach that deal, which would sanction top Russian leaders and countries that buy Russia's oil. Claudia Griesali's NBR News, the capital.
You're listening to NPR News from Washington. Kentucky Democratic Governor Andy Bashir is calling on Republican Senator Mitch McConnell to prove he is fit to continue serving an office or resign the 84-year-old McConnell was hospitalized June 14th after a fall. McConnell's office this week said he remains in a rehabilitation facility and is not
yet been medically cleared to return to the Senate. Median U.S. home prices remain at a record high this summer and that's pricing out many from buying. NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports there's concern about long-term consequences. In Richmond, Virginia, Brittany Gilroy and her husband have been trying to buy for years.
They've got good incomes, but worry the cost would wipe out any savings. Pretty much every time when we looked at a house being like, oh, we said no and then the price is the house is going up. Sky High Home values have pushed the Renter owner wealth gap wider than ever. Michelle Dickerson at the University of Texas worries about middle-class families since most
of their wealth has long been in their homes. For young adults who are middle-class, they are facing a future of no wealth. Congress passed a sweeping new law to tackle affordability with more housing supply, but that will take years. Jennifer Ludden and PR News.
Kentucky Fried Chicken Founder, Harland Sanders pressure cooker, black bow tie and dozens of his personal items are up for public auction and Shelbyville, Kentucky Sanders sold KFC in 1964 to a group of investors, but continued as a brand ambassador, not up for auction
“the 11 herbs and spices that make up KFC's secret original recipe.”
Fearlessening to NPR News from Washington On NPR's wildcard podcast, musician Rishikesh hereway tries to remind himself how miraculous it is that we're alive at all. Like that's unbelievable. Everything is unbelievable. We should all be walking around all the time saying, oh my God, I can't believe that any of this
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