Live from NPR News, I'm Jial Snyder, primary voters in five states went to th...
Tuesday, helping to shape the November mid-term elections.
The latest results are coming in from Washington State. According to an AP race call, voters have advanced incumbent progressive Congresswoman from a legit poll.
“But in a key race in Missouri, progressive Democrat Cory Bush lost her comeback bid to return”
to Congress. In a fiery speech to supporters, she denounced the Provisual APAC group for its spending in the race and vowed to fight on. Bush lost her primary race to incumbent congressman Wesley Bell in a rematch of 2024. A marquee race that has yet to be called as for an open Senate seat to Michigan, the outcome
viewed as a key test to the Democratic Party's direction heading into November. In battle to Ohio Republican congressman Max Miller says he asked the House Ethics Committee to investigate him and he's getting his wish. In Piero's Coddy Graham Salazar reports on the investigation after Miller released a video, statement and documents and response to claims made by his former wife.
In a statement on X 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 said
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, Coddy Salazar in Piero Nu. Elon Musk's SpaceX has had soaring revenues and shrinking losses in its first quarterly earnings reports since its IPO, but in Piero's John Ruud, reports a company spent heavily on
AI and R&D in the share price fell. Investors piled in and propelled SpaceX to the world's biggest initial public offering in June pushing the share price up. But it's fallen sharply since, still, on an earnings call, Elon Musk put a positive spin on the company's progress in satellite communications, AI and the development of a reusable
heavy lift rocket. The SpaceX team is solving some of the hardest engineering problems in the history of humanity and we're succeeding.
Subscriptions to its satellite internet arms starlink doubled to 12 million with growing income,
but the company remains unprofitable, reporting a loss of more than $500 million during the quarter with capital expenditures nearly doubling from the prior quarter. This is MP R news. A 37-year-old man arrested Monday evening in connection with one of the three wildfires burning near Spokane, Washington was in court Tuesday, Aaron Farron Nachy made his initial
appearance in county court after being jailed on a $1 million bond. He's charged with first degree, Arson Farron Nachy was previously imprisoned for killing his father. Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott has worded a pause on approvals of new data centers. Abbott says the moratorium will remain in place until regulatory agencies can audit
those projects seeking connection to the state's electric grid. Abbott's movie flex a growing public backlash and concerns that are surging me in the in not electricity demand could threaten reliability. McDonald's often viewed as an economic bill whether but sales in the U.S. have slowed much more than the company expected in the latest quarter here's MP R salina salio.
McDonald says it sales in the U.S. grew less than 1% between April and June. By the same time other chains like KFC and Chipotle saw a strong demand. And McDonald says it had overwhelmed at stores with too many complicated launches. There was marketing around Kpop demon hunters, then the world cup, a new lineup of drinks like craft sodas, and big changes in the value meals removing old deals for by one
get one free and introducing new ones with items under $3 or $4. All this was too much all at once for stores and shoppers, including the most loyal ones who also saw popular digital offerings go away in their apps. And so visits to McDonald's declined in the U.S. and the company is now working on corrections. Alina Silu and Pierre News.
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