Live from NPR news on trial Snyder Michigan Democrats are voting in a primary...
an open Senate seat that could signal the future direction of the party and shaped a
“battle for control the chamber this fall and PR Sam Greenglass is in Michigan where”
the primary is seen as a test of how farther left leaning candidates looking to disrupt the status quo will fare in a battleground state epidemiologist Abdul Alsaid has the backing of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders who won the Michigan primary in 2016. Alsaid has made criticism of corporate money in politics central problem to often with the Democratic Party is that we have an instinct to say the right thing, but we're
brought off by the people who are on the side of doing the wrong thing. Congresswoman Haley Stevens got late endorsements from Michigan heavyweights like Governor Gretchen Whitmer and retiring Senator Gary Peters. You know, I'm just being manga four times in my congressional races and I'm passing laws and I'm doing damn good work.
Whoever wins will face former Republican congressmen Mike Rogers this fall.
Sam Greenglass NPR news farming den Hills Michigan. The Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to vote later this morning on Todd Blanch's
“nomination to be president Trump's attorney general, Blanch's path was cleared after”
Republican senators John Corn and up Texas at North Carolina's Tom Tillis said they would support advancing his nomination to the Senate floor after he rescinded President Trump's anti-weaponization fund in writing Sunday night. Washington State's Bokan County Sheriff John Knowles is creding in an observant citizen for the arrest of a 37 year old man in connection with one of the three wildfires that
burned 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 them. They are among dozens burning in Western states. Food oil prices have picked up a bit in Asian trading after Monday's sell off prices eased after
“President Trump said he was holding off on attacking Iran because of a pending deal.”
And prices remain steady even after Iran signal that no talks are underway. There's empires Camilla Dominoski. Brent Crude, the global benchmark for crude oil, had been trading around $90 a barrel late last week. After President Trump posted online about the perimeter of a deal to totally reopen the
state of Hormuz, prices dropped by more than $5. Gasoline prices have barely budged, though, with the national average around $4.10 a gallon according to AAA. Analysts at the Apigaspati say that between the war with Iran and Ukraine attacking Russian refineries, US Gasoline prices could set a new record for August, while remaining well
below their all-time highs in 2022. Camilla Dominoski and PR news. Jay Clayton, as President Trump's director of national intelligence, taking over from acting director Bill Pulti. Clayton is now in charge of the nation's intelligence agencies after a contentious
Senate confirmation hearing in which he refused to directly acknowledge it President Trump lost the 2020 election. Two people from Michigan have died in the ongoing, like a cyclosporiasis outbreak from our partner KFF health news, Kate Wells reports. In both cases, the patients had underlying health conditions, that quote may have been impacted
by cyclosporiasis and dehydration, unquote, that is, according to the Michigan State Health Department. Health officials are not giving further details other than stressing that cyclosporiasis is not generally life threatening and dislike this are rare. Cyclosporiasis can cause prolonged diarrhea and infections are more likely to be severe
and people with compromised immune systems. The CDC says it's aware of more than 18,000 confirmed and reported cases across 45 states. Brown University President Kristen Paxon is stepping down. Paxon and Altsman Day that she will leave her post at the end of the academic year. Paxon clashed with Trump administration over threats to slash federal funding at an open letter
on the school's website. Paxon said she had intended to leave a year earlier but stayed on to navigate a federal funding freeze. Oil prices have reversed course amid uncertainty about talks to end the Iran war, brain crew, the international standard of more than $1 an Asian trading to just below 85
dollars a barrel. This is in PR news. The midterms are coming and that means the new cycle, which is already intense, is about to get more intense this fall. So, the summer is a perfect time to make sure your news diet is calibrated.
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