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The results of Michigan's Democratic Senate primary are giving the party's left flank a reason to celebrate. Epidemiologist Abdul Al-Siyad defeated a more moderate Democrat, representative Haley Stevens. Stevens had the backing of corporate interest groups, and the pro-Israel lobby A-Pak,
whereas Al-Siyad refused corporate pact donations. He did have the endorsement of independent Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont. It told NPR today that Al-Siyad's win is a rejection of the establishment.
“The way you win elections to my mind is that you have to generate excitement.”
The American people now are very frustrated with the Democratic Party and the Republican Party and Donald Trump. They are hurting. They can't afford healthcare. They can't afford housing.
They can't afford a decent retirement, and they're looking around them.
And this thing is the government, the way anything for me, and the answer is not much.
Al-Siyad now goes up against Republican Mike Rogers and a seat that both parties see as key to winning Senate control in November. Supporters of a birthing unit at a main hospital are seeking an emergency court injunction to prevent its closure. The hospital system's board is scheduled to take a vote on the fate of labor and delivery
services tomorrow. Main public's patty right reports. Main health announced in the spring that it was assessing maternity services at Lincoln
“Hospital because of low birth rates and staffing challenges.”
The lawsuit filed by a pregnant woman alleges that the healthcare systems review has not been fair or transparent. Her attorney Michael Vanderveen says that eliminating maternity services is a violation of main health's legal obligation as a non-profit that receives state and federal funding. To be clear, main health is putting their annual revenue over the safety of my clients
child on board. We will stop that. A coalition formed by local mothers is also urging the healthcare non-profit to preserve maternity care at the hospital.
Women has lost a third of its burthing hospitals in the past decade.
For NPR News, I'm Patty White in Portland, Maine. The head of a Russian company that manufactures attack drones used against Ukraine has been seriously wounded in an apparent assassination attempt. As NPR's Charles Maine's reports from Moscow, he was targeted in a car bomb explosion. Vladimir took a chuk founded a drone company in his hometown of a Catronburg, the Earl
“Mountains in 2023, with an a year of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.”
The drone took a chuk was demonstrating a new attack model called the "Vampire" to senior Russian officials, including President Vladimir Putin. The drone has gone on to widespread use by Russia's military in Ukraine. Dr. Saita Kachuk is now fighting for his life after a bomb detonated under his car and explosion the killed as driver instantly.
Investigators say they suspect Ukrainian special services were behind the attack. The incident comes against the recent backdrop of assassinations and attempted killings of Russian military officials and pro-war businessman, Charles Maine's impure news, Moscow. You're listening to NPR News live in Washington. The Senate has confirmed Dr. Erica Schwartz as director of the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention, ending a nearly year-long vacancy. The last permanent director was fired over vaccine policies. The forest fires are under control now in the Bordeaux region of France, and firefighters
describe something they've never confronted before.
NPR's Eleanor Beardsley spoke with a firefighter who battled the blazes for a week. "Basimal embedding is not from the Bordeaux region but was called into help. He says he's never battled anything like it." "You can't have any de-mirror de-femme, a fascinant." "We had walls of fire in front of a 60-feet high and the wind had it constantly changing
direction," he said. "None of our regular tactics worked, it felt like the fire had a mind of its own." He says he's exhausted by the whole experience, but he's happy for the houses and animals they could save. He says when they found a deer in the forest, they douse them with water and tried to point
them in the right direction to escape the flames, betting says from his perspective everything has changed with the hotter weather and the drought brought on by climate change. Eleanor Beardsley and Pair News, Paris. China has announced a series of economic countermeasures against the United States, including export controls on drones and a ban on trade with six American entities, officials say
it's in response to U.S. moves including a ban on Chinese drones and putting Chinese companies on the Weagre Forest Labor Prevention Act list, tensions between the two largest economies are simmering ahead of a possible visit by China's president to the U.S. next month. This is NPR News in Washington, I'm Lebie Casey. The midterms are coming and that means the new 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. I'm Leila Faldel on Up First, we unpack the three biggest stories every morning so you can stay informed and get on with your day in less than 15 minutes.
