Live from NPR news on child Snyder speaking to supporters in Columbia last night
Senator Darlene Graham reflected on running for her late brother Lindsey Graham
“Senate seat after being appointed following his death last month.”
This is a very emotional night because I'm usually standing here celebrating with Lindsey. So I know he's looking down right now smiling there so that gives me peace but it is difficult. Republican voters in South Carolina special Senate primary advanced Graham to an August 25 runoff. She will face GOP Congressman Ralph Norman.
Republican Lisa Dameath fended off a primary challenge from a candidate endorsed by President Trump to win her party's nomination for governor in Minnesota. Minnesota Public Radio's Dana Ferguson reports. Dameath face my pillow founder and Trump endorsed candidate Mike Lindell. In businessman Kendall Qualls who received the Minnesota Republican party's
endorsement in May. Dameath Minnesota's House Speaker campaigned on a message of fighting fraud and state government programs and of leading across divided government in a tied house.
“I've had the honor and responsibility of pulling Democrats and Republicans”
together and finding a way forward and getting things done for Minnesota. That experience has equipped me for what is next. She will face Democrat Amy Klobuchar the state senior senator in the general election. Barring unforeseen circumstances Minnesota will have its first woman as governor.
For NPR news, I'm Dana Ferguson in St. Paul. Progressives notched another win in Tuesday's primarys and Minnesota voters gave Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan the Democratic nomination for a U.S. Senate seat and Wisconsin the Democratic primary for governor has been decided according to a race called by the Associated Press David Crowley won
the nomination over a Democratic socialist Francesca Hong and Connecticut voters rejected Democratic Congressman John Larson making him the 10th house member to lose a primary this year. They had a fan's former Hartford mayor Luke Brown and instead. Now to Columbia reporter John Otis is in Bogotov or rescuers are searching
for survivors of Monday's powerful earthquake.
Right now the race is on to locate people underneath the rubble because the chances of survival are just so much better if you can reach them within the first 72 hours emergency workers and volunteers are streaming into colleague where authorities say that hundreds could still be trapped inside the dozens of buildings that collapsed.
Quick and more than 100 aftershocks left thousands missing the confirmed death tolls rising the president says more than 180 people are dead thousands more injured authorities and Indonesia say rescuers have successfully evacuated more than 170 people from a fairy that caught fire and rough seas off Bolly this is in PR.
A former U.S. Marine jailed in Russia for more than four years has been released. Robert Gilman was freed after President Trump said he spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Gilman supporters say he was near death and will have a long road to
recovery. A superior court judge in Washington D.C. has ruled that the
Kennedy Center must pay a musician more than a quarter million dollars in
legal fees in Paris on Estasiociocus reports. The musician, Viber Foniston drummer Chuck Red, had hosted a Christmas Eve Jazz concert at the Kennedy Center for nearly 20 years. But in 2025 he canceled the performance after President Trump's name was added to the arts complex.
The Kennedy Center vowed to sue Red for a million dollars. But in June the judge dismissed the center suit citing an anti-slap law designed to protect public interest speech. In her ruling Judge Tonya Jones Boizer said the Kennedy Center must pay Chuck Red over $252,000 to cover attorney fees and other legal costs.
The center has 45 days to pay him. Honest as it's Lucas and Pierre News. British driver Andy Green returned to Utah's famous Monteville salt flats Tuesday and set another speed record. Green topped 406 miles per hour and a car powered by two hydrogen internal combustion engines, setting the record for that vehicle category.
Green set the overall land speed record of 763 miles per hour in 1997 and a car powered by jet engines. This is in PR news. How will a historically unpopular president navigate a midterm
“election season that may leave him with a lot less power?”
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