"Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh.
Voters are at the polls today in three states, Florida, Alaska and Wyoming.
“One race with national implications is a congressional seat for Florida's seventh district.”
The incumbent is Republican representative Cory Mills, who's been mired in legal controversy. Central Florida Public Media is reporter Joe Mario Peterson is covering the race and the opponent who could unseat Mills. Trump presented of Mills as under investigation by the House Ethics Committee related to allegations of campaign finance violations misuse of congressional resources and whether
he engaged in sexual misconduct or dating violence. Mills was previously endorsed by President Donald Trump. However, over the weekend, Trump released his endorsement list for Tuesday's primaries and omitted Mills. Mills is in a Republican primary facing three challengers.
One of them is Ryan Elijah, a local former TV anchor, a recent survey of early voters and those likely to vote, projected Elijah heavily favored over Mills. For NPR News, I'm Joe Mario Peterson in Orlando.
“"The Walt Disney Company's ABC is suing the federal communications commission accusing”
the Trump administration violating its first amendment rights by carrying out an early
license review of eight ABC stations and investigating the talk show, the view. And here's David Folk and Flick reports on FCC chairman, Brendan Carr's defense of the agency." Before I haven't been able to get comment back from Chairman Carr, but I will say in the past, he's argued that there is a public interest requirement in how broadcasters
using the public airwaves operate and that he is of the belief that there's real question as to whether Disney and whether ABC and its stations have operated in that way. And so that is the claim on which he's resting it, but his interpretation of public interest is giving him a far more aggressive and muscular approach to regulation than we've seen in many, many decades.
And NPR's David Folk and Flick reporting. Brazil's leftist president is hailing a new finding of possible vast oil reserves near the mouth of the Amazon River. Brazil's state-run oil company has been exploring drilling prospects in the environmentally sensitive region over the objections of environmentalists and indigenous groups.
More from NPR's carry-con. "Masthen Luis Nacionalule de Silva says the potential to extract what could be a sizable oil
“reserve is important to Brazil's children, wearing an orange worker jumpsuit and holding”
a vile of oil, Lulis says it could be "a passport to the country's future." Last week, Petrobras, Brazil's state oil company announced detection of hydrocarbons about 100 miles off Brazil's coast near the mouth of the Amazon River, preliminary estimates
say up to 10 billion barrels of oil could be drilled with a possible value of more than $700
billion." Lulis says he still supports alternative fuel sourcing, Lulis is in a tough reelection campaign against the son of a former far-right president, Kerry Con and PR News Rio de Janeiro. "This is NPR." The Trump administration is criticizing Israel's airstrikes on Syria today.
Tom Barrack, the U.S. ambassador to Turkey and President Trump's Syria envoy, posted on ex of the attack was an unnecessary escalation. He says Washington is deeply concerned. The United States and Israel are close allies but have taken diverging approaches to conflicts in the Middle East.
That also includes Israel's military activities in Syria, where President Trump, back's president Ahmed Al-Shara. A Chinese shipping company has started a new weekly service to transport cargo from Asia through the Arctic to Europe. It is a quicker alternative to the Red Sea, where shipping has been targeted by Iran,
backed Houthis and Yemen, and PR's dead if a pack has more from Beijing." The uncertainty in the Red Sea means much of the cargo from Asia headed to Europe goes via southern Africa, which takes about 40 days. But the Arctic route, dubbed by China as the ice silk road, is expected to cut shipping times by half.
The Chinese container ship, called Dubai Tower, headed out last Saturday from the eastern port city of Ningbo, it will head north then west along Russia's northern coast before reaching Felixtoe in the UK. Environmental groups are worried that increased shipping could break up remaining ice not melted by global warming.
China state-backed global times, called such concerns in the western media, as sour grapes rhetoric. Jennifer Pack and PR News Beijing I'm Lakshmi Singh and PR News in Washington. This week on chart wave, you are what you eat may not be a phrase you associate with your
mental health, but one in three people have insulin resistance in our country. And if you have insulin resistance, you are double the likelihood of developing major depression. We explore the link between your body and your brain.
