Line from NPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Skivoni.
Political primaries are underway in six states today, and Minnesota, Mark Lindell, is
pitching for the GOP Gubernatorial Nod, known for his "my pillow business" and his rejection of the 2020 election results, Lindell has the endorsement of President Trump. Democratic Socialist, Francesca Wong, is bidding for the Democrat slot in Wisconsin's gubernatorial race, editor Jessica Taylor, with the "cook political" reports as appealing to moderates this cycle will be key.
That's the real test this cycle, because these are not candidates that were running in Manhattan or running in Denver.
“They're now running in swing states, and I think this will tell us something about the”
viability of a national progressive candidate in 2020, I think there's going to be a lot of finger pointing if these progressive candidates lose very winnable races.
Jessica Taylor, with the "cook political" report, voters are also considering primary candidates
in Vermont, Connecticut, South Carolina, and Alabama. President Trump is scheduled to visit Ohio today, Connor Morris, with idea-streamed public media, says the president will attend a high school sports competition known as the "Patriot" Games. With 120 high school athletes, one boy and one girl from each state and territory, the event
has drawn comparison to the "Hunger Games" books and movies. The Patriot Games are taking place at a private boarding school in rural Ashtabula County. County Commissioner Casey Couselowski, a Republican, says the "games" and Trump's visit are good for the area.
“"The fact that these games are happening here, really, and the young athletes are participating”
in the focus should be on the athletes." The event is organized by Freedom 250, a Trump-backed public-private partnership that also organized the UFC fight on the White House lawn in June. For NPR News, I'm Connor Morris in Cleveland. Russia has freed a former U.S. Marine who has been held for more than four years, and was
said to be in dire medical condition, and PR's Michelle Kelman reports that the U.S. says it did not give Russia anything in exchange. The State Department says it welcomes the return of Robert Gilman on humanitarian grounds that 32-year-old from Massachusetts was planning to teach English in Moldova and was traveling in Russia in 2022 when he fell ill on a train and was arrested.
Gilman faced disputed charges that he kicked a police officer in a case that drew parallels to another former Marine Trevor Reed who was exchanged for a convicted drug smuggler. The Trump administration says it did not offer Russia any concessions in Gilman's case, and it says it will continue to work for the release of all Americans unjustly detained in Russia, including Stephen Hubbard, who's in his 70s, and was captured in Ukraine.
Michelle Kelman and PR News, the State Department. Wall Street, the Dow is down 106, the Nasdaq is off, 150, this is NPR News in Washington. It's been a little tougher for people in the U.S. hoping to sell their homes, the National Association of Realtors is reporting that sales of previously occupied homes slowed in July, record high prices, and the highest mortgage rates in a year have discouraged buyers,
with July sales falling 1.7% compared to June, overall the Realtors Group is reporting that U.S. median sales prices increased 2% from a year earlier to $434,000. Stocks may be able to read people's emotions by looking at their faces. That's according to a recent study in the journal I Science, and PR's Katie Riddle reports. Previous studies have shown that dogs can broadly interpret human emotions, like happiness
or sadness. This study looks at how well dogs can sense more subtle human feelings, like the difference between anger and fear or happiness and neutrality. Researchers trained dogs to sit still while they examined their brain activity through an MRI and showed them pictures of human faces.
The test showed that the dogs registered different brain activity for these different emotions. Researchers used 14 dogs for this experiment. They point out that not all dogs may have this sophisticated emotional intelligence. Katie Riddle, in PR News. The parent company of truth, social, the president's social media platform is posted
to loss of $238 million in the latest quarter.
As a result, Trump, media, and technology says it will weaken figure its business model abandoning ventures in crypto, online betting, and financial services. I'm Luis Givoni 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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