Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Winter Johnston.
The latest round of primaries produced a number of closely-watched results ahead of the midterm
elections.
“And Wisconsin, a moderate-edged out a democratic socialist for the nomination for Governor”
helped by a late endorsement from the state's popular outgoing governor. My own silver, a member station, WU, WM reports. Poles were showing progressive Francesca hung up by double digits in the days and weeks before the primary. That's despite an endorsement from Wisconsin's Democratic Governor Tony Evers for her main
opponent, moderate-David Crowley. But the margins were narrower than anyone imagined, popping up and down by tons of percentage points. Some Democrats had concerns about her comments years ago about defunding the police and canceling Thanksgiving, which she sends back to wave from.
Crowley will face Congressman Tom Tiffany, who is backed by Trump in the general election.
He won the Republican primary, handily. For NPR News, I'm Ayyon Silver, and Madison. Stocks on Wall Street opened higher this morning as the Labor Department reported a modest slowdown in inflation last month.
“And PR Scott Horsley reports the Dow Jones industrial average rose about 24 points in”
early trading. The government's latest cost of living figures show the consumer prices in July were up 3.4% from a year ago. That's in line with forecast and a smaller annual price hike than reported in May or June.
Gasoline and grocery prices both fell last month, although gasoline still costs much more than it did before the war with Iran, starled tanker traffic in the straight-of-four moves.
Let us prices fell sharply in July, after an outbreak of food-borne illness prompted a
recall of some leafy greens. Researchers think that somewhat tamer inflation report makes it less likely the federal reserve will feel the need to raise interest rates when policymakers meet next month. Market odds of a September rate hike have fallen below 40%. Scott Horsley and PR News, Washington.
Rescue crews are still searching for survivors after Monday's magnitude 7.4 earthquake in Western Columbia, more than 180 people are dead and hundreds remain missing. The disaster is an early test for Columbia's new president who took office just three days before the quake struck. Reporter John Otis is in Kali, one of the hardest hit cities.
I came across a pair of five story apartments that had been absolutely flattened. Henry Guranha, who lives a few blocks away, happened to be right outside the buildings when the earthquake struck. "You fool!" "You fool!"
"What are you saying?" "So he's saying suddenly the buildings just collapsed. I saw them fall down. My lifetime neighbors and friends were inside, but there was so much dust and debris that I didn't even know where to start looking for them."
That's John Otis reporting. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. Rescuers in Indonesia evacuated 172 people and recovered one body after a ferry caught fire in rough seas near Bali. Officials say more people were aboard than lists on the ships manifest.
The cause of the fire is under investigation. Europe will experience a rare solar eclipse today. Russia, Greenland, Iceland and parts of Spain and Portugal are in the band of totality where the sun gets completely covered by the moon. A partially eclipse will be visible in the United Kingdom, but there's a shortage of special
glasses to view it. His MPR's Lauren Fair reports from London. "Even the UK's Royal Observatory is sold out of eclipse glasses, citing unprecedented demand." In the toy shop, and last night we had people over and over.
"How have we gone in glasses? Have you gone in glasses? No!" Grace Church is searching for her own pair as well. "I'm in a line of a hundred or so people in a tube station in London where a bakery has
gotten their hands on semi-clipsed glasses, the rationing them two per person." "I've been calling at 40 places this morning trying to find somewhere to sell in them." Tierra Jackson is here with her little brother, and he has autism to his face as something he's really interested in, so hopefully we're going to find the glasses so he can watch it." "Hearts of the country will see up to 96% totality.
Here in London it'll be around 91% if it's not too cloudy." Lauren Crayer and Piano's London. On Wall Street, the Dow was down two points. This is NPR News. Attention, a PSA from ShoreWave and PR Science Podcast.
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