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Michigan's heavily contested Democratic Senate primary has been decided progressive Abdul-El-Sayed
“narrowly defeated moderate-haley Stevens.”
Michigan Public Radio's Russ McNamara reports the race was among the most expensive Senate primaries ever for political advertising." Pro-Israel Lobby, A-Pak, and other groups spent over $60 million on ads for Stevens and against El-Sayed. Speaking to supporters in Detroit earlier this morning, El-Sayed focused on his general election
opponent, Republican former Congressman Mike Rogers, and bringing all Democrats together.
"He high-end response vote for a short, that view night, make sure that high-quaters never
sees the inside of the US." This will be Roger's second attempt at the office. He narrowly lost two years ago to Democrat Alyssa Slotkin. For NPR News, I'm Russ McNamara in Detroit. Russia carried out another round of missiles in the Ukrainian capital overnight killing
at least 17 people, and PR's Greg Mayri reports Russian forces have intensified the attacks to exploit Ukraine's lack of air defenses.
“Russia fired more than 2 dozen ballistic and hypersonic missiles into key than its suburbs,”
igniting large blazes that lit up the night. At daybreak, the sky remained hazy with accurate smoke. The deadliest attack was at a train platform where eight people were killed while waiting for a train that was running late. Ukraine says it's exhausted at stockpile of U.S. made Patriot air defense missiles that have
limited the damage from Russian attacks in recent years. President Volodymyr Zelensky is pleading with the U.S. and other nations to re-supply Ukraine. Greg Mayri, NPR News, Kiev. Iran says it's getting closer to an agreement that would temporarily open the
street of Hormuz. NPR is a deal-out-shelty reports, Katari and U.S. officials are citing progress in a broader
deal to reopen the critical waterway.
“Others foreign ministry said that talks on reopening the street of Hormuz were in the”
"very progressive stages" and that a draft was being circulated among parties. It said that no deal has been reached yet. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that there were "progress in talks" but not "finality" yet. Iran and Oman said they were getting close to their own deal to temporarily open the
street. Iranian official said they would use an intermediate route whereby ships enter the Persian Gulf using an Iranian controlled route and exit using an Omani controlled one. The Iranian Foreign Ministry said a deal was contingent on the U.S. lifting its blockade on Iranian ports.
Hedil Al-Shalchi and PR News, Istanbul. Stocks are trading higher on Wall Street at the South, the Dow was up 612 points, then has deck up 21. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. Chipotle, Mexican Grill, has removed jalapenos from some of its restaurants tied to a
salamonella outbreak in Minnesota. The fast food chain says it's pulled a product from restaurants across the country as a precaution. This comes as the FDA continues to investigate a cyclospora outbreak tied to iceberg lettuce that's sick in thousands of people in the U.S.
The Food and Drug Administration is expected to decide as soon as today whether to approve the first flu vaccine that uses MRNA technology. NPR's Rob Stein reports, the vaccine is called EMFluciva. It was developed by Moderna, the same company that made one of the two MRNA COVID-19 vaccines. EMFluciva appears to offer more protection than traditional flu vaccines and can be produced
and updated more quickly.
But the Trump administration has been highly critical of MRNA technology, so the decision
by the FDA under a health secretary Robert of Kennedy Jr. a long time critical vaccines, especially MRNA vaccines, is being closely watched. Rob, Stein, and Pyrnus. A discarded SpaceX rocket stage was expected to hit the moon today after drifting through space for more than a year.
The Falcon 9 upper stage was projected to strike the lunar surface at roughly 5,400 miles an hour. Scientists said the impact could create a new crater and offer data on lunar dust and crater formation. I'm Windsor-Johnston, NPR News, in Washington.
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