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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. 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 had a response vote for a short, that you and I make sure that my brothers never
see 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. "Virginia's congressional Democratic primary is among those closely watched around the country
as well. Former representative of Elaine Luria defeated three other Democrats, including a challenge from the left. She's looking to get her seat back. She lost it after serving on the January 6th committee.
Luria will face Republican congresswoman Jen Kiggens in a rematch in November, both our military veterans.
Russia carried out another round of missile attacks in the Ukrainian capital, killing
at least 17 people, and PR's Greg Myri reports.
“"Russia fired more than two 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 US-made, patriot-air defense missiles that have
limited the damage from Russian attacks in recent years. President Volodymyr Zelensky is pleading with the US and other nations to resupply Ukraine. Greg Myri, MPR News, Keev. Congressman Chuck Edwards is dropping his reelection bid after a central recommendation, NPR's Barbara Sprint reports.
The North Carolina Republican says he will complete his current term, but is ending his reelection campaign. Following a month-long investigation, the bipartisan ethics committee recommended a full-house censure after finding Edwards had engaged in unprofessional and inappropriate conduct towards two young female staffers.
Edwards co-operated with that investigation and has denied any wrongdoing. The committee said it found no evidence that he engaged in sexual activity or proposition the staffers. A committee of North Carolina's 11th congressional district will convene next week to select a Republican to replace Edwards on the November ballot, Barbara Sprint and Pyrenees,
Washington. This is NPR News. Regular gas in the US is still averaging more than $4 a gallon. Officials in Iran and Oman say they're getting close to an agreement on the straight-of-hormoos that could ease pressure on the global economy.
Some working coal miners in Appalachia are now suffering from incurable black lung disease at a rate not seen since the 1970s. Howard Berks reports on the key finding in a new study by federal researchers.
“You have to go back to 1978 to find the same rate of black lung disease more than 30% for”
working coal miners in Kentucky, Virginia, and West Virginia who spent more than 24 years underground. That's what Appalachia found at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health when testing coal miners in the last five years. Scott Laney led the research.
It's very frustrating to have spent my career working on this and trying to prevent this terrible disease and every year seeing it get worse and worse and worse. Silica dust is blamed and a new federal regulation is supposed to protect miners, but enforcement is on hold indefinitely given opposition from the mining industry for NPR News on Howard Berks.
The piece of a space X rockets slammed into the moon today. As predicted, it would. The rocket had drifted off course after it launched a pair of lunar landers and scientific instruments to the moon last year. Researchers tracking the collision clocked it at more than 5,000 miles an hour.
Space X says it is working with NASA to avoid this happening again. I'm Kristen Wright and PR News from Washington. The midterms are coming and if you think the new cycle feels intense now, just wait until the fall.
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