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weekend County Sheriff John Knowles is

creding an observant citizen for the rest of a 37 year old man in

connection with one of the three wildfires at a burnt thousands of acres and hundreds of homes and businesses in the region. The mail walked away. The citizen returned to their house a short time later after being a home. They saw smoke coming from what they believed was the area that they had seen the mail bending down by the side of the road.

The fires near Spokane have forced more than 60,000 people to evacuate and are among dozens burning in western states. President Trump says new talks with Iran are in his words a last chance for Tehran to come to an agreement. Trump's comments and the oval office Monday followed his decision over the weekend to call off major attacks repeating a pattern in which he has

threatened such attacks only to cancel them. Iran disputes at talks are taking place with the U.S. but acknowledges discussions with Oma on over

management of the state of Hormuz. President Trump's word of peace on

boy met with his we is Rayleigh Prime Minister Monday after Hamas accepted the board's final plan for Gaza. The board says it shares the same goals with his rail and clarified the terms of the agreement and peers on Aspava and Gaza. Yesterday after criticizing Israel's strikes that killed civilians in Gaza. Nicolay Meladenov traveled to Israel for talks with Israeli Prime Minister.

After the meeting, the board of peace said, it shares the same ultimate objectives with Israel, adding that Israeli forces would withdraw only after the complete decommissioning of weapons in Gaza. That appears to interfere from the road map release days earlier, which linked that this armament process to a phased Israeli withdrawal under international supervision.

The sequencing of this armament and Israeli withdrawal remains one of the main obstacles to the plan, while Israel continues daily strikes across Gaza and Aspava and Pyrenees Gaza. Better workers and more than six agencies being ordered by the Trump administration to move into new buildings. Agency leaders say the relocations are meant to reduce the government's real estate footprint and

save money, but an impure analysis shows that it's not always happening more

from Kira Eisner. For many federal workers, this summer has been one of chaotic relocations. Some USDA workers were told to move into a building by August that was treated for bed bugs in May, but as of late July, officials hadn't said it was all clear yet. The new building for employees at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau didn't have working Wi-Fi for weeks. Trump appointed heads of

these agencies say these moves were supposed to save money, but some employees are moving out of buildings that the government is still paying millions for. And two lawsuits say the moves haven't been authorized by Congress and violate federal law. You're listening to NPR news. Michigan voters are preparing to go to the polls Tuesday to choose Republican and Democratic nominees for November's

midterms. The marquee raises for the Democratic nomination for an open U.S. Senate seat. Many of Michigan's most prominent Democrats have endorsed for a term four-term Congresswoman Haley Stevens. Her opponent is from the progressive wing of the party, and I'll bill out say, "Ed has a backing of Senator Bernie Sanders," and winner will face Republican Mike Rogers in November. A nuclear

power start-up says it has secured funding to begin mass-producing small reactors. NPR chef Brumfield reports the announcement comes after an ambitious program by President Trump to hurry reactor development.

Veller Atomic announced it raised a billion dollars in venture capital to begin

mass-producing small nuclear reactors. Earlier this summer, the company turned on an experimental reactor and a tenth-like structure in the Utah desert. That device was part of a program set up by the Trump administration to speed the development of new nuclear technologies. Supporters say it worked with multiple companies testing new reactor designs, but critics point out the program slashed hundreds of pages of

safety and security rules to hurry development. They worried the new designs could be risky. Veller hopes its reactors will soon be used to power defense systems, data centers, and heavy industry. Jeff Brumfield and PR News. Oil prices have reversed course amid uncertainty about talks to end the Iran war bring crew of the International Standard up more than $1 in Asian trading to around $85

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