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Iran says it's getting closer to an agreement with Oman to temporarily open the
Strait of Hormuz.
“NPR's Hadile al-Shalchi reports Kittari and U.S. officials are citing progress in a broader”
deal to reopen the waterway." Others foreign ministry said that talks on reopening the Strait 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 Strait. 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. That deal al-Shalchi and PR news is thumble.
“The Democratic Senate primary in Michigan is emerging as a test of the party's progressive”
wing. Former State Health Director, Abdul El-Sayed, appears to be poised for a win, though the race has not yet been called. Meanwhile, the race for the Democratic nomination for Michigan Governor is now set. Queen Klein-Felcher at Member Station, WDET, reports.
The president was unhappy, Congressman John James decided to leave the GOP's razor-thin house majority to run for governor. He eventually endorsed James over Perry Johnson, who campaigned as a Trump-esque outsider businessman. But James says his primary victory marks the start of a fight against a Democratic party
veering too far from the mainstream. "We offer freedom, they offer socialism, we offer change, they offer continued decline, we offer common sense, they offer crazy."
“James faces Democrat Jocelyn Benson, Michigan Secretary of State, who is a kind of air apparent”
to term-limited governor, Gretchen Whitmer. For NPR News, I'm Quinn Klein-Felcher in Detroit. President Trump is in Las Vegas today, where he's expected to highlight his economic agenda and Trump's support for Republican candidates ahead of the midterms. The White House says Trump will promote his tax and manufacturing policies while arguing
Republicans are better positioned to tackle inflation and high-living costs.
The FDA could decide today whether to approve the first flu vaccine that uses MRNA technology
and PR's Robstein reports who is developed by Moderna. Moderna tests of the vaccine in more than 40,000 people and found that number one, it looks safe and number two, it appears to produce stronger protection than traditional flu vaccines in people aged 50 and older. He saw that independent FDA advisers voted unanimously in June to recommend that the FDA
proof-impose Eva. NPR's Robstein reporting. This is NPR News. Chipotle, Mexican Grill, has removed jalapenos from some of its restaurants tied to a salamone netlet outbreak in Minnesota.
The fast food chain says it's pulled the product from restaurants across the country as a precaution. This comes as the FDA investigates a cyclopspora outbreak tied to iceberg lettuce that sick and thousands of people in the U.S. The fast food chain, McDonald's, is often viewed as an economic fell weather, but sales
in the U.S. have slowed much more than the company expected in the latest quarter. NPR's Alina Seljuk reports. McDonald says it sales in the U.S. grew less than 1% between April and June, at the same time other chains like KFC and Chipotle saw 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 Kraft 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 Seljuk and beer news. Higher fighters in Greece are working to reinforce containment lines around wildfires burning west of Athens, stronger gusts and hotter temperatures are expected in the coming days. This is NPR News.
The midterms are coming and that means the news cycle, which is already intense, is about to get more intense this fall. So the summer is a perfect time to make sure your news diet is calibrated.
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