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Five states hold primary elections today in Michigan, Democrats see the race for an open
“Senate seat as essential to winning control of the chamber this year.”
The winner will take on former Republican Congressman Mike Rogers, who narrowly lost a Senate bid two years ago, and PR Sam Greenglass has more on the candidates. There is Congresswoman Hayley Stevens, Chief Lip Disaburbant House District in 2018, and has focused on her crossover appeal and support for Michigan manufacturing. She's got support from Michigan heavyweights like Governor Gretchen Whitmer.
Stevens, opponent, is former public health official Abdul Alsaid. He's backed by the left-spiggy stars like Senator Bernie Sanders, and is running on Medicare for all, and eliminating corporate money from politics. He has criticized millions of dollars from the pro Israel lobby, APEC, flooding the race against him.
And so this race will test whether a candidate on the left like Alsaid can prevail in a battle ground state. NPR Sam Greenglass reporting, embattled Ohio Republican Congressman Max Miller, says he has asked the House Ethics Committee to investigate him, and he's getting his wish. NPR's Claudia Gretchen says it comes after he released a video statement and documents
in response to claims made by his ex-wife. In a statement on ex-miller says he is seeking the ethics probe to clear his name and connection with accusations of abuse. Those allegations were made by Miller's ex-wife Emily Moreno, the daughter of Ohio GOP Senator Bernie Moreno.
On Sunday Miller posted an extended video statement and trove of documents to defend against the claims. However, the documents included sensitive images of the couple's minor child that his legal team has said were inadvertently shared. Following that effort, Senator Moreno sent Miller, who was in a tough reelection
fight, was not fit to serve. The matter has divided Republicans in Congress, but time is running out for Miller and for the party to decide whether he stays in the race. Claudia D. Salis, NPR Known. AI companies are meeting with Trump administration officials to discuss regulating the cyber
security capabilities of what are known as frontier AI models, and Piers of John Rooch reports. Two sources familiar with the situation, but not authorized to talk about it publicly confirmed the meeting to NPR. They say it may result in a final version of a framework for cyber regulation to deal with cutting-edge AI models.
One source told NPR, "At the heart of the matter is a benchmarking process to determine which AI models are covered. They're also discussing a process through which companies will voluntarily submit their models for testing and assessment of their cyber capabilities." The meeting comes after a string of new models hit the market, including anthropics, mythos,
that can quickly find and potentially exploit cyber security vulnerabilities, something experts and policymakers see as a major AI risk. John Rooch and PR News. The U.S. stock market rallied to new records today. This is NPR News.
The extension of the National Guard deployment in Washington, D.C., until January 20, 29 will
cost roughly $1.4 billion, according to a defense department estimate provided at Congress.
The figure offers a glimpse of how much taxpayer money will be spent on a deployment. It's been criticized by local officials as an infringement on their city's autonomy. Administration says it has made the nation's capital safer. Pharmaceutical company Maderna has begun trials for a new Ebola vaccine, and PR's Jonathan Lambert reports the Democratic Republic of Congress outbreak is the second largest ever.
A rare species of Ebola, called Boondabujo, is behind the current outbreak.
“There are no approved vaccines for Boondabujo, which is important why the virus has already”
claimed over 1,700 lives. In early June, the coalition for epidemic preparedness innovation, or sepate announced an investment of over $60 million to jumpstart vaccine development. Maderna got the bulk of that money, and trials started in Canada. Researchers will be testing the safety of their vaccine, and whether it induces the body
to mount and immune response in healthy volunteers. Last month, another sepate backed vaccine began similar trials, but it will still likely be many months before any vaccine gets tested on the ground, Jonathan Lambert and PR News. The Iowa Port Producers Association plans to hand out 1,776 pork chops on a stick at the Iowa State Fair this year in honor of the nation's 250th birthday.
They're calling it the 1776 pork chops allude, according to the Iowa Capital Dispatch. The pork chop on a stick is a traditional food at the state fair, and the associations grills are famously tended by high-profile politicians. This is NPR News from Washington. The mid-terms are coming, and if you think the news cycle feels intense now, just wait
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