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Five states hold primary elections on Tuesday, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, Virginia, and Washington.
“No where is the debate over the future of the Democratic Party more intense right now than”
in Michigan, where early voting is underway in the primary for a critical U.S. Senate
seat. The race pits a progressive insurgent against a four-term congresswoman, NPR's same-green glass reports. The race between former public health official Abdul Al-Sayed and representative Hailey Stevens has become so fraught in part because it's seen as a proxy for so many debates
roiling the party now. Insider vs. outsider, farther left vs. moderate, new media vs. old. Alyssa DiBolt chair of the McCombe County Democrats says she's hearing a common theme from voters. "People are pissed, people are fed up, it's not working, like this is not working for the
majority of people, gases expensive, grocery's are expensive, health care's insane."
“Democrats see holding on to this Michigan Senate seat as essential to retaking the chamber”
this fall, whoever wins Tuesday will face Republican Mike Rogers of former congressman, same-green glass NPR news, Farmington Hills, Michigan. President Trump's social media platform, Truth's Social, has now begun selling an early access version of his posts to investment banks and other institutions. As NPR's Bobby Allen reports, the service has raised alarm among legal experts and former
Wall Street regulators. "For a hundred thousand dollars a month, Truth's API offers an early feed of the president's truth's social posts, since Trump regularly uses his social media site to make news about the economy and world affairs or a handset government policy, the posts can move the stock market."
Former regulators with the securities and exchange commission told NPR the service appears to violate insider trading laws against misusing government information for private gain.
“In response to spokeswoman for Trump media and technology groups, said the new product”
gives customers faster access to public information, saying critics have, quote, "invented new theories of insider trading to attack the president."
Government disclosure showed Trump made more than $2 billion while in office last year,
Bobby Allen and PR news. "A blistering heat dome has settled in over large swans of the southwest and central U.S. National Weather Service, meteorologist Mark Shinard, says some areas will get some relief, but temperatures will remain high in other areas." "I hold front only across the north, so that will cool off Montana and Wyoming as we head
into Monday, but the heat will persist across the south. So we'll see well above normal temperatures from California to New Mexico, even Colorado. And then as we had through much of the week, it might modify a little bit, but the general idea was of normal temperatures and at least some heat risk continuing across a lot of the southwest." In the Pacific Northwest, he says the heat may cause an elevated fire risk. This is NPR News
in Washington. The Justice Department has moved to dismiss a criminal case against former Olympian David Hurn. He'd been charged with damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool after it
undergone a $14 million renovation. Prosecutors say they now know that it was caused by
botched installation and workers rushing to finish before Independence Day celebrations. Women are once again stepping up to the plate. Today, the new women's pro baseball league plays its inaugural game. NPR's Amy Held reports all games will be played in Springfield, Illinois. "It's not women's first leak of their own." "It's not crying in baseball!" Motorized in the 1992 film about women who really did pitch in when men left to fight
World War II. The hit movie helped inspire ladies league baseball in 1997. Low interest played a part ending both leagues, but recently, elite women's sports have exploded in popularity and revenue. And now the women's pro baseball league is taking a crack at it. With 60 players across four teams, Rocky Henley manages and coaches the New York Heights and says it's a natural fit for fans of Major League Baseball. "There's not much difference
is just women playing. And it's phenomenal for step is New York against the Los Angeles Queens." Amy Held and PR News. After widespread condemnation and FIFA President Gianni Infantino is abandoning a plan to sell World Cup profits to private investors, including the family of President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner. He said he's changed his mind after listening carefully to all the views. "I'm Nora Rom. NPR News in Washington."
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