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Six states hold primary elections tomorrow, Minnesota, where the governor's race and a Senate
“race are in play, Wisconsin also a governor's race, Connecticut, a governor's seed, and”
a closely watched congressional primary, Vermont, South Carolina, where the GOP is considering Senate hopefuls and Alabama.
Some voters in Alabama will be casting ballots for a second time in a congressional primary
tomorrow, and PR's Debbie Elliott reports the special election is the result of redistricting push through after the U.S. Supreme Court removed race as a consideration for drawn district lines, but allowed for partisan gerrymandering. The map approved by the Republican-controlled legislature creates a more difficult path to reelection for the two black Democrats in Alabama's congressional delegation.
Senator Willie Dixon of Loundsboro is in a new district now and says it's confusing. Creating of chaos, people will give up and go home. Six Republicans are vying to challenge Democrats Shemari figures, state representative Red Marks has president Trump's endorsement.
“"We have a chance to flip a democracy back to the Republicans."”
He says the stakes are high with control of Congress in the balance, Debbie Elliott and PR News. A U.S. Air Force base has been renamed in Charleston, South Carolina for the late Senator Lindsey Graham. At the ceremony defense secretary Pete Heggsett said that Graham dedicated his life
to serving his state and the armed forces. "So my fellow Americans, it is my honor to say welcome to joint base, Lindsey Graham. May God bless the United States, and thank you." Graham Sister Darlene recalled her brother's dedication to both government and military. She was appointed to serve out the rest of his term, she's running into tomorrow's primary
for the next term which begins in 2027. Europe is bracing for another heat wave this week. It is the fifth since May, and PR's Eleanor Beardsley reports rapidly rising temperatures combined with intense drought conditions is also worsening the threat of wildfires. A broad area of high pressure known as a heat dome will intensify across the continent
this week. The most extreme heat is expected across parts of France, Spain, and Italy before shifting towards central Europe where scorching weather is forecast for Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic. European forest fire forecasters say parts of southern Britain, France, and a swath of territory from the Alps to the Balkans will remain under very extreme fire conditions.
The highest category in its fire danger forecast. Fire's have already destroyed hundreds of thousands of acres this year in France and Spain, Eleanor Beardsley and Pyrenees, Paris. The European Union's Copernicus climate service as Europe is the Earth's fastest warming continent.
Wall Street, the Dow's down 150, the Nasdaq off 74, this is NPR News. In South America at least 111 people have died in a magnitude 7.4 earthquake in western Columbia,
hundreds of buildings have been damaged. Officials say it's the most powerful quake to hit
that nation in 10 years. There are concerns about aftershocks and flights have been suspended at several airports. White House, press secretary Carolyn Levitt has tweeted that Todd Blanche has now been sworn in as U.S. Attorney General. The Trump administration is putting more than $180 million toward schools and trade programs in the mining industry. As NPR's Genaki Meta reports, President Trump says this was
to boost domestic production of minerals and batteries and to keep up with China. The money will go towards 14 mining schools across the country to bolster the mining workforce, which President Trump said was dwindling in the U.S.
“"For years mining schools and colleges that are essential to training the future leaders”
of this industry have been absolutely and sadly disappearing." The administration has been pushing to increase the U.S. domestic production of minerals like lithium, graphite, and silicon, to build weapons, cars, and semiconductors to compete
with China, which dominates the industry. $80 million in grants for these schools is coming
from the Pentagon while the other $100 million will come from the Department of Energy. Genaki Meta and Pair News Taylor Farms' voluntarily recalling some products that include jalapenos over concerns about a possible salmonella contamination. This comes a few weeks after the business voluntarily recalled its iceberg lettuce products. I'm Louise Kivone, and Pair News.
50 years ago, Congress set out to protect coal miners from black lung disease. Today, it's back at rates not seen in half a century. These guys are being treated like disposable widgets, not human beings. On the Sunday story, why coal miners and Appalachia are getting sicker faster. This is now to the Sunday story from the U.S. podcast on the NPR app.
