Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Skiewone.
Political primaries are underway in six states today, in Wisconsin, a Democratic Socialist
“is seeking to capture the Democratic nomination for Governor.”
She hopes to follow in the footsteps of like-minded candidates who have won another states. My own silver. From Member Station, W.W.M. Reports.
Francesca Hanks, progressive platform, has generated buzz among young voters and others, drawn to her message. Like Timmel Hack. "There's the more term you on data centers. There's Medicaid for all universal child care.
She brings all the things that we need to make Wisconsin a great place again."
Hong is a 37-year-old state lawmaker, bartender, and chef, and daughter of Korean immigrants.
Some of her previous statements have sparked controversy, including about defunding the police and canceling Thanksgiving.
“She sought to distance herself from those remarks.”
Wisconsin's outgoing Democratic Governor has endorsed Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley. He says he's concerned about Hong's chances against the likely Republican nominee, Congressman, Tom Tiffany. Front-Pierre News, I'm Myon Silver, and Milwaukee. In Colombia, happy debris removal and rescue efforts continue in that country's Pacific
Coast region, or yesterday's 7.4 magnitude quake has left at least 111 people dead. We get to tales from reporter Manuel Rueida in Bogotá. The mayor there said that there's at least 15 buildings where people could still be trapped under the rubble. He said that 55 people, at least 55 people, were killed in that city.
And the biggest of the cities that has been affected is Kylie, where the mayor said that 40 buildings were destroyed and confirmed the deaths of at least 15 people. Monro, right in Bogotá, it's been a year since President Trump deployed the National Guard who washington dc some worry it's normalizing basing arm to uninformed troops in American cities in non-emergency situations and pyrscat lawn store reports.
President Trump declared a crime emergency in dc last August, despite violent crime being at a 30 year low and deployed the National Guard. Since then, the number of armed troops patrolling the city has gone from around 800 to nearly 5000 from more than 20 different states. Despite that, there has been a 3% increase in violent crime in the past year, according
to city police data. Opportunistic crimes like theft and vehicle breakings have continued to decrease. Trump has repeatedly touted the deployment as a success, claiming falsely that there is "almost no crime" in dc now.
The deployment currently has an estimated cost of around $3 million per day.
It's been extended until inauguration day 2029. Cat lawn store, MPR News, Washington. Russia has released former U.S. Marine Robert Gilman arrested four years ago in Russia. The U.S. has argued he was wrongfully detained. Wall Street, the Dow basically flat.
This is NPR News. Heed advisories and warnings are, in effect, in more than a dozen states largely in the Midwest and south, the extreme summer heat across the U.S. has been breaking records and PR's Lawrence Summer has details. Temperatures were hot of an average across almost the entire lower 48 states.
In July, on average, it was three degrees hotter than normal, according to a report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. That set a new record, making it the warmest July in the U.S. in 132 years of record keeping. Nineteen temperatures were also the warmest on record, which exacerbates the impacts of
heat waves since things don't cool down as much. The records were most extreme in the Inter-Mountain West, Wyoming side's hottest month of any month recorded, that drying heat has driven up the risk of wildfires across the western U.S. Lauren Summer and PR News.
Red flag warnings are posted across much of Wyoming at areas of Montana today, with conditions favorable for more wildfires to break out. As a time of year, again, when Sky Watchers look for the percied meteor showers, but there's a big bonus tomorrow with solar eclipse when the moon passes between Earth and the sun blocking some more all of the sun's light.
In parts of Europe, it will be a total eclipse, and in some cities overseas, hotel prices have spiked for the big event. The path of the eclipse is expected to be most visible from Spain, Iceland, Greenland, and other spots, maybe Northern Russia, Portugal, and the Atlantic Ocean, and the U.S., NASA says the expectation is that for Alaska and some northern states, a partial eclipse is likely.
I'm Louie Skivone and PR 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?”
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