Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Wilman.
Iran says it will not negotiate directly with the U.S. as long as the U.S. remains in violation
“of an agreement reached by both sides last June.”
In the meantime, Iranian proxies are continuing to attack targets in the Middle East, including a Houthi rebel attack on an oil facility in Saudi Arabia Sunday, and on a Yemeni government held port on the Red Sea. Peter Salzburg, a professor at Columbia University, he says those proxies have created major problems for the U.S. Groups in Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq are all now launching drones, missiles at various adversaries
and in particular, the Houthis and the Iraqi groups are able to launch cross-border missile and drone attacks on Saudi Arabia and on commerce in the Red Sea in a way that has proved very difficult for the United States. Russia and Ukraine carried out a series of air strikes this weekend that killed and wounded
civilians on both sides of the conflict, as NPR's Greg Myri reports.
The two military's currently have extensive air power, but are not nearly as strong when it comes to air defenses. In Ukraine, a Russian missile hit a high-rise apartment building in the northeastern city
“of Harkeef, a short distance from the Russian border.”
Local officials said three Ukrainians were killed and more than 30 wounded. Across that border in southern Russia, Ukrainian drone attacks killed five people and injured more than two dozen in the Belgorod region. The Associated Press reported. Ukraine says it's desperately short of U.S. made missile interceptors and has no reliable
way of defending against the nightly missile strikes. However, Ukraine's offensive drones are now capable of reaching deep inside Russia, where Russian forces usually shoot down some, but not all of them. Greg Myri MPR News, Kiev. After winning the Michigan Senate primary, Democratic nominee Abdul Al-Said is looking
forward to a different kind of general election. Here as my Elias offers this report on just what's ahead for his campaign, leading up to November voting. Al-Said 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-Said 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. Mar Elias and NPR News, and you're listening to NPR News. Typhoon Dolphin hit mainland China Sunday night local time bringing heavy winds and massive rainfall, more than 300,000 people were evacuated from their homes before the Typhoon
arrived, and Shanghai's two major airports canceled more than 1,300 flights in anticipation of the storm. Forecasters say as much as 16 inches of rain could fall over the next few days, sparking flooding, as well as landslides. Wildfire crews in Washington and Oregon are still stretched thin as they continue to fight
at least 44 uncontained large fires in the northwestern U.S. Kate Stone, with NPR member station K, U.O.W. in Seattle, has this updates. In Washington, Spokane area local officials report more than 9,000 acres burned, and more than 900 structures damaged or destroyed, around airway heights, nine mile falls, and need.
Evacuation orders there were scaled back, though the hardest hit neighborhoods still have not been cleared to return, farther west the little giant fire in 11 worth is more than 110,000 acres, with go now evacuations currently posted.
Oregon's big grassfire near Jordan Valley has grown to about half a million acres, and
the grasshopper fire has triggered evacuation orders in Wasco, Clacamas, and Hood River counties. For NPR news, on Kate Stone, in Seattle. California teen asterick Tally is the U.S. women's amateur golf champion after overpowering Ana Iwandaga, if Japan, Tally took control early in the match with three straight birdies
and was up by three after the morning session, Tally now is two U.S.GA titles. I'm Dale Wilman, NPR News. One A is named for the first amendment, which protects the freedom of the press, and your freedom to speak out. Are weekly series if you can keep it tackles the big political stories of the day, and
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