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Lawmakers and families are raising concerns about poor conditions on board the USS Abraham Lincoln.
“The aircraft carrier has been at sea for a record 240 days and has played a major role”
in the Trump administration's war on Iran. Independent military news outlets, including military times and stars and stripes report that sailors have attempted to jump from the carrier and PR has not confirmed those accounts. Steve Walsh from member station WHRO has more. Being out at sea takes a toll on sailors, normally they would come into port after a
month or so to resupply and let sailors spend time off the ship. The war with Iran has made that impossible shortly after the war began in late February, around attacked the Navy's main hub in the region in Bahrain. This has meant the Navy has not been able to use his traditional supply hub in the region. Instead, they've had to scramble to find ways to keep ships stopped.
Steve Walsh from WHRO reporting. The board of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. has for a second time voted to close down the main campus of the arts complex for a two-year renovation three months after a federal judge blocked a similar plan. As NPR's Anastasia Silcus reports, the board's also trying to put President Trump's name
back onto the arts center. The board is chaired by President Trump and filled mostly with Trump allies.
They voted again to close the center's main facilities for $250 million renovation.
The plans approved by the board include structural repairs, new marble floors, and nearly $12 million in acoustical improvements. The board plans to keep a campus addition called the Reach Open for Limited Programming and as a memorial to JFK. The board also voted to test the federal judges' previous ruling to remove Trump's name
from the center. The plan now is to add an inscription saying that the center has been, quote, "restored and renovated by President Donald J. Trump." The board's plans still need to be approved by the federal judge, Anastasia Silcus and PR News.
Some swing voters might not be quick to reject socialist political candidates, and PR's Ashley Lopez observed two online focus groups of Nevada voters, or most said they would not think negatively of a candidate that's labeled socialist. The focus groups were made up of 12 voters with mixed political affiliations who supported Joe Biden in 2020 and then President Trump in 2024.
10 of those voters who participated under the condition their last name would not be used said they would not automatically dismiss a candidate who was labeled a socialist. Melody was one of them.
“"I mean, I think that there are at least looking at ways to make sure that everybody”
has taken care of."
According to the Pew Research Center, a third of Democrats view Democratic socialist candidates
positively, and a plurality of all Americans say they neither like nor dislike Democratic socialist. Ashley Lopez and PR News. And you're listening to NPR News from Washington. Forecasters say tropical storm Lala has formed in the Pacific Ocean, and a hurricane
watch has been issued for the big island of Hawaii. The National Hurricane Center says the storm could bring rain to the Hawaiian island starting late tomorrow as well as high winds and dangerous surf. The Ebola outbreak has spread to a six province in eastern Congo. The virus is killed more than 2,000 people since the outbreak was officially declared in
May, faster than any Ebola outbreak on record. And PR's a dirty-boostering reports. Officials with the Africa CDC announced the death of a man in the province of Bosuela. On the border of the Central African Republic, he had traveled there from a province with previously reported Ebola cases.
The Africa CDC is pressing for an older vaccine to be tested for use to control this outbreak, even though it was developed for a different strain of Ebola. Director General Dr. John Casayah says health workers are operating in a gray area, trying to get vaccines to people to stop the spread.
“Well, you have to make strong decisions to stop seeing people die to reverse the trend”
of morbidity. Casayah said this outbreak is already several times larger than the 2014 Ebola outbreak was at this point. It killed 11,000 people in West Africa over the course of two years. Dury Bowskaren and Pyrenees, Washington.
The Powerball ticket sold at a high-v gas station in Western Illinois has won a $1 billion
jackpot. It's not clear if the winner has come forward yet. The odds of winning the jackpot are $1 in $292 million. And the Powerball jackpot now resets to $20 million for the next drawing. It's NPR.
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