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President Trump says he called off plans for a massive new attack on Iran at the request
of Gulf allies. "We were on set to go, it's about at this time right now, and we're going to be a massive attack. We're all set to go, but when the allies asked to call it off, they got us on to say, "Well, let's see.
“The reason they asked is I think there's a deal."”
Trump says Iran and the U.S. had reached the perimeter of a deal, which includes reopening the Strait of Hormuz, and addressing U.S. concerns about Iran's nuclear program. He says negotiations between Iran and the U.S. resumed tomorrow. Now just before he announced he was halting the planned attack, Iranian media said the foreign minister had warned regional countries of harsh retaliation, if the U.S. followed through
with threats to attack Iran's energy facilities. It's a busy last weekend of campaigning ahead of Michigan's contentious U.S. Senate primary Tuesday, as Michigan public's Steve Carmedee reports, the primary has implications far beyond the Great Lakes State. "The primary between Congresswoman Haley Stevens and former Detroit Public Health official
Abdul El Siyat is seen as a battle between the Democratic Party's establishment and progressive wings. Stevens has garnered a slew of endorsements from party leaders, including U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Meanwhile, El Siyat has the backing of progressive stars, including Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Michigan's primary battle is not only about the direction of the National Democratic Party, but also whether Democrats or Republicans control the U.S. Senate next year.
For NPR News, I'm Steve Carmedee, in second on Michigan."
MERS will also be held Tuesday in Kansas, Missouri, Virginia, and Washington State, Tennessee holds a primary Thursday and Hawaii on Saturday. In Washington, at least 10 major wildfires are burning around the state with three large ones in Spokane. Thousands of homes have been evacuated hundreds of structures in the state have been destroyed
and more are under threat. The state's governor declared a state of emergency, where the 5,000 acres have been burned. Two helicopters involved in battling large wildfire blazes and grease have crashed into each other as the country continues to suffer from heat waves. Bill and Mark says more.
The crash between the two aircraft happened just west of the capital Athens on Sunday said the local fire service. Greece's prime minister, Kerry Aquas-Missotakis, warned there'd be difficult days ahead for his country as the extreme weather conditions have sparked fires across the Greek mainland and on several islands too.
Five fighters say they're working under very challenging conditions with tens of thousands of hectares currently ablaze. Across Europe countries including France and Spain have also battle fires of an often unprecedented scale in some regions as climate change drives higher than average temperatures over the summer months.
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Flight attendants at West Jet, Canada's second biggest airline, are on strike today over
pay. The Canadian Union of Public Employees represents 4,400 workers at the airline. Their carrier had to cancel hundreds of flights.
“A key issue is how flight attendants are paid for duties performed while still on the”
ground. The Union says some of that work is unpaid. The carrier says it's compensated. Both sides say they are willing to continue negotiations. A defunct part of SpaceX rocket is expected to slam into the moon this week.
And Pierre Srandel, a journalist, does her has more. Scientists say a piece of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will slam into the moon early Wednesday morning. This part of the rocket carried two lunar landers in scientific instruments to the moon in January 2025.
Bill Gray, an astronomer who developed software that tracks objects in space, says it will hit the moon around 2.35 a.m. Eastern Time at more than 5,000 miles per hour. SpaceX did not intend for the piece to hit the moon according to the Associated Press. Pierre has reached out to SpaceX for comment but is not received a response. Scientists say the piece is expected to hit a sunlit side of the moon facing Earth.
And the initial impact could be challenging to see, even with professional telescopes. Shondalys Duster and PR news. It was future's contracts are trading higher at this hour. Dow futures are up nearly four tenths of a percent. Nasdaq futures are up about three quarters of a percent.
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