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A key Senate race in Michigan remains too close to call with votes still being counted
“in a closely watched Democratic primary.”
Across the country, Tuesday's elections delivered victories for establishment Democrats, progressive candidates, and several Republicans backed by President Trump. NPR Sage Miller reports the results underscored divisions within both parties while setting a stage for the fall midterms. Progressive Democrats scored another win in this election cycle when voters in Michigan's
seventh congressional district picked Will Lawrence as their nominee.
Democrats hoped to flip the seat away from first-time Republican congressman, Tom Barrett.
But establishment Democrats won in Missouri and Virginia. Missouri congressman Wesley Bell beat progressive former congresswoman Corey Bush. Despite a record low approval rating, Trump still has a strong grip on his party. The Trump back candidate won the Republican nomination in a congressional race in Washington State.
And Trump's candidates also won in two races for governor in Kansas and Michigan. Sage Miller and PR News. "A man detained at a federal immigration detention center in Newark, New Jersey, has died. Edwin Giovanni Lopez, Cornejo is the second person who's died at the facility in eight months,
and PR's Vanessa Romo reports."
In recent months, Delaney has become the site of intense protest over poor living conditions,
and Lopez's death has renewed calls for greater oversight. Local leaders and lawmakers report their often borrowed from inspections and visits. New Jersey congresswoman Analylia Mejia says officials need unencombrered access to all detention centers, including those run by private contractors. "We cannot allow our government to pick and choose who have a right to life under their
care. And we have to hold these four-profit corporations to your group and for civics to account." In a statement, DHS says comprehensive medical care is provided from the moment detainees arrive and throughout their stay. Vanessa Romo and PR News.
"Stalk piles of U.S. missiles are running low as the war with Iran enters it six month. And PR's Catlon store reports the Army has used up most of its long-range attack missiles." It's all classified, the Pentagon doesn't give out the numbers of missiles that happen news.
We do know that there have been more than 15,000 Iranian targets hit during this war. Many of those have been in the massive U.S. air strikes that the U.S. was carrying out earlier. Now we shouldn't know what that many senior military officials and analysts believe that the U.S. does have sufficient supply of offensive weapons for now, despite those shortages I just mentioned.
You know, one of the concerns with running low on these precision missiles is that it takes years to replenish them and PR's Catlon store reporting. This is NPR News. Some working coal miners in Appalachia are now suffering from incurable black lung disease at a rate not seen since the 1970s.
Howard Berges reports on the key finding in a new study from federal researchers.
“You have to go back to 1978 to find the same rate of black lung disease more than 30 percent”
for working coal miners in Kentucky, Virginia, and West Virginia who spent more than 24 years under ground. 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 and definitely given opposition from the mining industry. For NPR News, I'm Howard Berges.
A discarded SpaceX rocket stage was expected to hit the moon 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. The event is also raising broader concerns about debris traveling beyond Earth's orbit. On Wall Street, down futures are of 150 points of the hour. This is NPR News in Washington, the midterms are coming and if you think the new cycle feels intense now, just wait until the fall.
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