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After winning the Michigan Senate primary Democratic nominee, Abdul Al-Sayed is looking forward to a different kind of general election. NPR's Maraleigh is in reports on what's ahead for his campaign." Al-Sayed won the primary by doing very well with young people and white college-educated
“voters, but he wasn't able to win African-American voters, an important part of the Democratic”
Party's base. The electorate in November will be older, wider, and less college-educated, unlike deep blue places like New York City, where progressive Democrats were assured of victory once they won the Democratic primary, Michigan is a swing state where Donald Trump won twice. And Al-Sayed will have to get votes from independent and moderate voters.
His Republican opponent is former representative Mike Rogers, who was unopposed in the Republican primary. Maraleigh is an MPR News. State of emergency has been declared in British Columbia, thousands of residents are being forced to evacuate as fast-moving wildfires burn homes and properties across the Western
Canadian province. Dan Carvin Chuck reports from Toronto. The BC Premier David E.B. says the entire province is now under a state of emergency
“as crews try to contain dozens of out-of-control wildfires.”
Officials say some people have been trapped and needed to be rescued. One of the worst fires is moving through the Okanagan Valley region, forcing more than 20,000 people from their homes. Officials also warn there are still people trapped behind the fire line either by fast-moving flames or because they chose to ignore evacuation orders.
The roughly 40,000 residents in the city of Pentechden have been told to be prepared. The fire in the region is grown to more than 84,000 acres in size. And more than 100 fires burning in BC, 70 of them started over the past week. For NPR News, I'm Dan Carvin Chuck in Toronto. The Trump administration's launch date for a workforce pelgrance has been approved.
NPR's Sequoia Carillo reports the money is given to low-income students seeking job training. The Emergency Medical Technician Training Program at Iowa Central Community College is the
first workforce pel program approved by the Trump administration.
“Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, announced the designation alongside Iowa's governor.”
Workforce pel is an expansion passed in 2025 of the decades-old federal pelgrant program. Estimates from the Education Department and from the Congressional Budget Office said the benefit could help 100,000 or more students by the fall of 2027. But the rollout has been slow to qualify programs must meet specific length parameters, be in an in-demand field and show job placements.
During the colleges expected thousands of existing programs to qualify, but many fall just outside the requirements, Sequoia Carillo and Pair News. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. Hundreds of thousands of ride chair drivers in California are a step closer to forming a union and bargaining with companies such as Uber and Lyft.
Today regulators say the California gig workers union has secured support from at least 30% of active drivers, meeting the threshold required to organize.
The summer marks the first time in 60 years that no original members of the grateful
dead are touring. In their place, other musicians are keeping the dead's music alive. NPR's Isabella Gomez Sarmiento Reports. Ramlesh was literally born into the grateful dead, his dad, Phil Lesh, was the band's basis.
This summer, Ramlesh has been playing dead tribute shows across the country. Lesh is one directed harerter of the dead's legacy, but he doesn't want to be its solitary keeper. He says the hundreds of grateful dead cover bands across the country give him hope for the future.
What we can do is sort of bring all these other musicians in and provide a place for them to be in the band and to take the music and then maybe go out and spread the good word.
That way, hopefully, the music will never stop.
Isabella Gomez Sarmiento and PR News. The trial of the manicused of orchestrating the 1996 killing of rap icon to pop Shakur is set to begin Monday and Las Vegas. Twain Davis is facing a murder charge in the fatal drive by shooting nearly 30 years ago.
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