Live from NPR News in New York City, I'm Doah Lee-Sy-Countal.
There are still a number of primaries coming up in Wyoming, Delaware, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire.
“NPR's Ron Elving has been watching key primary races closely and what matters to voters”
ahead of the midterms he says isn't a ballroom that is now approaching your price tag
of nearly a billion dollars.
All this has the approval of just 25 percent of Americans in an ABC News Washington Post poll with more than 60 percent opposed. All this focus on what some would call vanity projects does not help Republicans who want to show voters evidence of concern about everyday economic challenges. With the war in Iran and economic issues he adds, Democrats have a clear opportunity
to make gains this November, but many primaries are still ahead. Other people were rescued in Indiana from flood waters on Saturday, just hours after federal aid was approved for Indiana, following severe storms that killed at least six people, including a four-year-old boy. Samantha Horton is in Indiana and reports on evacuations due to the rising waters.
The white river continued to swell Saturday as more rain came pouring down.
“Americans indicate water could rise more than 20 feet in some areas. The city of Indianapolis”
erected floodgates to try to contain the water, but for some communities prevention was futile. Lisa Lamoth has lived in her house near the white river for more than 40 years. She said as the water crept up to her house that this is the worst she has ever experienced.
We've never been flooded out before, usually it came up maybe to our driveway.
President Trump approved federal aid to assist in the emergency response efforts. Brent Pyrenees, "I'm Samantha Horton, Indianapolis." The Food and Drug Administration says it's on the ground in Mexico to investigate the cause of contaminated lettuce that has sickened almost 10,000 people in at least 19 states and pairs the whole of our Sullivan reports.
FDA officials say they have initiated an onsite inspection at Taylor Farms in Mexico. The farm linked to the largest known cyclospora outbreak in U.S. history. They say they're coordinating with Mexican officials. The FDA says in a statement it's "confident that all recalled iceberg lettuce related to this specific outbreak is off the market.
Officials noted that the best by dates on the lettuce packaging has also now passed. The FDA says investigators in Mexico hope to sample different areas of the facility and the fields. Though critics say it will be hard to gain much useful information now because too much time has passed.
Taylor Farms says it recalled all iceberg lettuce from the U.S. market on July 17th, Laura Sullivan and PR News, Washington. And this is NPR from New York City. Saturday marks the 81st anniversary of Japan's surrender in the Second World War. Ashish Valentine reports the country's prime minister has avoided apologizing for Japan's
actions during the war. Speaking at the annual memorial event in Tokyo, Prime Minister Sanae Takahichi vowed Japan
would never repeat the mistakes of the past.
Since the end of the war, Japan has consistently contributed global peace and prosperity. We will never let the tragedy of the war be repeated, she said. The Prime Minister avoided visiting the Yosakuni shrine, which honours those who died fighting for Imperial Japan. China and South Korea frequently condemned visits to the shrine by Japanese leaders as
showing a lack of remorse for wartime atrocities. Japan's Defense Minister sees Yuro Koizumi, however, did pray at the shrine today, trying a sharp protest from China's foreign ministry. For NPR News, I'm Ashish Valentine in Taipei. There are reports that sailors have attempted to jump overboard from the U.S. Abraham
Lincoln. NPR has not independently verified those reports, but families of sailors in San Diego, where the aircraft carrier is based are condemning President Trump for nearly nine months of deployment at sea, resulting in what, some tell NPR are food shortages and declining mental health. When asked about this on Friday, the President said U.S. S. Lincoln's deployment was not nearly
long enough, an acting secretary of the Navy Hangkau said an assayment, a small number of mental health cases were reported, were treated with no loss of life. This is NPR.
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