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for U.S. Senate and the winner is a progressive Douglas Sol from Member Station W. U.S. Afriports."
“Angie Nixon is a state representative from Jacksonville. She beat Alex Vinnman, a retired”
lieutenant colonel who testified against President Trump during his first impeachment. Vinnman held a significant fundraising advantage over Nixon. Nixon ran to the left of Vinnman. She was recently arrested after staging a sit-in at Governor Ron DeSantis' office. She'd been protesting the state's new congressional map that increases the GOP advantage. She faces Republican incumbent U.S. Senator Ashley Moody in November. Governor Ron DeSantis appointed
Moody to the role after Marco Rubio left to become President Trump's secretary of state. For MPR News, I'm Douglas Sol in Tampa. The U.S. and Canada have reached a last minute deal that alerts President Trump's 50% tariffs
on $20 billion worth of Canadian imports. Trump announced a deal on social media hours
before the import taxes were to go into effect. An official in South Lebanon says Israeli
“forces destroyed his village's only water storage facility, Jawad Riz Kahlov reports from”
Beirut. Habed Ahmad is a municipal official in Elmansoori. A village in an Israeli occupied part of Southern Lebanon. He told NPR he watched the Israeli military destroy the villages only water tower around known Saturday. Israel says the rest of war was not a target, but Ahmad said residents saw Israeli tanks and soldiers enter the area amid sweeping gunfire.
Then with draw, before an explosion produced a horizontal plume of smoke typical for controlled explosion. The Israeli military has been carrying out near daily strikes and demolitions according to Lebanese state media, including of homes that depopulated the area at occupies. The continuing destruction despite the US brokerage ceasefire has been a point of contention for the Lebanese delegation in rounds of talks with Israel aimed at securing an Israeli withdrawal
from Southern Lebanon. Jawad Riz Kahlov and Beirut News, Beirut News. A former senior advisor at a federal research agency has pleaded guilty to a charge related to hiding federal records during the COVID-19 pandemic. David Morans reached a deal with federal prosecutors and pyruskadya riddle reports. Morans was an advisor at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, where he worked under Dr. Anthony Fauci. Morans has in the
past apologized for using a private Gmail account when a work account would have been appropriate. The development comes in light of accusations from the Trump administration and Republicans that Fauci and his advisors sought to downplay information about the source of the COVID-19 pandemic, arguing that they were suppressing evidence the virus came from a laboratory. Accusations Fauci has previously denied. David Morans is 78 years old. He faces up to five
years in prison. Katie Everdell and Pyrr News. And you're listening to MPR News. Opening statements got underway in federal courts in California Tuesday and a trial over child safety and privacy claims against meta. The parent company of Facebook and Instagram, attorneys general from California, Colorado, Kentucky, and New Jersey are seeking extensive financial damages, plus changes to how meta runs its platforms. 29 states initially
sued meta. The other 25 will go to trial later and the company also faces lawsuits and state courts.
The ABC network is suing the FCC in a case with major first amendment implications. ABC argues
a Trump administration is violated as free speech rights by challenging its broadcast licenses in Pyrr's David Folcomplic reports. The networks lawsuit sites trumped own social media posts, which condemn ABC's news coverage its talk show the view and late night comedian Jimmy Kimmel, who has frequently mocked the president. Trump has openly called for ABC to be stripped of its broadcast licenses. ABC and Disney own eight local TV stations, they require federal licenses
because they rely on the public airwaves. They are also in six of the nation's largest markets and contribute significantly to ABC's bottom line. FCC chair Brendan Carr says he's making sure broadcasters operate in the public interest, illegal requirement, and don't violate Trump's orders on DEI. David Folcomplic and PR news as has released before and after photos of the crater created by a space X rocket that slammed into the moon two weeks ago. The Falcon
rockets upper stage plowed into the moon after drifting through space for more than a year
aside to say the new crater appears to be 60 feet across. This is MPR. This week on up first,
the midterms and the Middle East were tracking major primary elections in Florida, Alaska and Wyoming, and abroad, the president's son-in-law Jared Kushner pursues a peace plan in Gaza. Plus,
“the U.S. Iran ceasefire hits a crucial 60-day deadline. Stay caught up on the week's biggest”
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