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There are election primaries today in five states, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, Virginia, and Washington.
“Each state has races for congressional seats.”
In Michigan, voters will be choosing Republican and Democratic nominees to replace outgoing governor, Gretchen Whitmer, Rick Pluta with Michigan Public Radio reports. Governor is a two-term Democrat who cannot run again under Michigan's term limits. Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson faces only a token challenge and what appears to be a glide path for the Democratic nomination.
In the Republican primary, Congressman John James has president Donald Trump's support, but multi-millionaire businessman Perry Johnson is spending big money in an almost entirely self-funded campaign anchored in a promise to eliminate the state income tax.
More than 1.2 million Michigan voters have already cast ballots in early voting.
For NPR News, I'm Rick Pluta in Ann Arbor. Voters and Kansas will be choosing gubernatorial candidates to replace outgoing governor, Laura Kelly. President Trump says the latest talks with Iran are that country's last chance to reach
“a deal to end the war and avoid an escalation of U.S. strikes in the Middle East.”
Iran insists it's only holding discussions with Oman. More than 2,000 states are suing the Trump administration over new tariffs imposed on some of the U.S.'s largest trading partners. NPR's Daniel Kurtz-Labin says the levies were imposed on countries accused of exporting goods made with forced labor.
25 states in all are suing the administration, saying in their suit that, quote, "the administration cannot use forced labor as a pretext to continue its illegal tariff scheme." The administration imposed the tariffs under a law meant to fight discriminatory practices by trading partners. They set the new tariffs to take effect last month at the moment that another global blanket
tariff expired. The lawsuit uses that continuity as well as the president's own words to argue that the new tariffs are not a good faith effort to fight forced labor. The states furthermore called the investigation that preceded the new tariffs a sham. Daniel Kurtz-Labin and PR News the White House.
As crews continue battling wildfires across much of the Western U.S. authorities in Spokane, Washington say they've arrested a man suspected of starting a wildfire there. County Sheriff John Null says a witness help lead to the man's arrest. "He knows the mail was bending down near some grass. At that point the mail stood up and looked very nervous according to our citizen witness."
307-year-old Aaron Farren Nachy is being held on a million dollars bond he suspected of starting the old trails' fire. Three days ago, fires near Spokane destroyed hundreds of buildings mostly houses and resulted in tens of thousands of evacuations. This is NPR News from Washington.
Major League Soccer is getting a new commissioner, Don Garber, plans to step aside after more than a quarter century at the helm, NPR's Becky Sullivan says a co-owner of the league's Los Angeles football club will succeed Garber. Larry Berg will be just the third commissioner in MLS history. He made his money in private equity and his co-owner of L.A.F.C. he has been a major voice and
changes adopted by the league in recent years.
It's a critical time for MLS, which hopes for a boost in its sentence and ratings after
this summer's World Cup. Next year, the league will switch its season calendar to align with Europe's professional leagues, and a headlight challenges like a new union contract that could alter roster rules and spending limits and a new media rights deal when the current Apple TV agreement expires in 29.
The outgoing commissioner, Don Garber, has overseen MLS for 27 years, guiding the league as it grew from 10 teams to 30. Garber's contract runs through next summer, though he could step away sooner. Becky Sullivan and Pierre News. Berg was selected to be the next MLS commissioner the same day, the U.S. men's national soccer
team announced Mauricio Pachatino. But remain as head coach through 2030 and the next men's World Cup soccer tournament. Toyota is reporting a sharp jump in earnings for the fiscal first quarter. The Japanese automaker says profits nearly doubled in part because of strong demand for its vehicles in the U.S., that's despite higher gasoline prices.
Toyota says sales were up 10 percent compared to the same quarter a year ago.
Triple A says gasoline prices remain above $4 a gallon on average. The midterms are coming and if you think the new cycle feels intense now, just wait until the fall.
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