"Lie from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh.
It was a mixed bag for progressive candidates in Florida's primary races last night.
“Multiple candidates lost their primaries in some key house races, however there was a surprise”
win for the left in the state's Senate contest. Here's NPR's Ashley Lopez." Florida State Representative Angie Nixon ran for the Democratic Party's Senate nomination on a platform of Medicare for All and Universal Child Care. She defeated Alex Vinnman, a national figure during President Trump's first impeachment
trial, who drastically outrages Nixon. She now faces a tough race in a state that has become reliably conservative. In house contest, Oliver Larkin, who was backed by the Democratic Socialists of America, lost his challenge to congressman Jared Moskowitz, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, along serving congresswoman one her primary, she beat a slate of black candidates which included a progressive candidate
for a seat that had long been held by a black representative. Ashley Lopez and Piano's.
The U.S. gave Canada a three-day reprieve from new hefty tariffs, 50% levies on $20 billion worth
of Canadian goods from building materials to dairy products. NPR's Emily Fanks' President Trump had announced that both sides had reached an agreement just hours before the tariffs were due to take effect. The deadline for these tariffs was supposed to kick in midnight last night, but with less than two hours to go before that deadline, Trump announced he was temporarily calling
them off.
“He wrote untrue social, what was key behind this deal was the potential to restart the”
keystone pipeline, a joint project between U.S. and Canadian companies to deliver oil from Canada to the U.S. but it got mirrored in an environmental controversy and its permit was ultimately revoked by President Biden through an executive order. Trump rolled back that executive order last year as part of his push to expand the U.S. oil and gas sector.
The Israeli military has announced rare criminal investigations into two high-profile attacks during the Gaza war. One is the killing of a five-year-old Palestinian girl, a film about her death was nominated for an Academy Award, and appears Daniel Estrin reports from Tel Aviv. The film is called The Voice of Hind Rajab.
She was the sole survivor of her family, who was killed by Israeli fire as they fled Gaza city. All Palestinian paramedics for help in this recorded call. As the paramedics tried to rescue her, they too were killed by Israeli fire. Later the girl's body was found.
Now more than two years later, the Israeli military announced a criminal investigation into that incident, and into last year's killing of 15 Palestinian rescue workers in a single attack. Soldiers crushed their vehicles and buried the dead in a mass grave. Israel says it will not open criminal probes into three other attacks that killed aid workers
from world central kitchen and doctors without borders. Daniel Estrin and PR News, Tel Aviv. This is NPR. Over night, Ukraine launched another swarm of drones, hundreds of them, deep into Russia. As it continues to target, Russia's energy and logistics hubs.
The drones struck an oil refinery and damaged a residential building in the Republic of Besh Kortostan, at least one person was injured. Meanwhile, Russia says both countries exchanged 103 prisoners of war, the first prisoner swap, since June. And Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky fired one of the most senior members of his government
in the wake of a broad corruption investigation. The U.S. Forest Service has begun the process of rolling back a rule that protects around
45 million acres of national forests from locking and development.
The roadless rule protected 172,000 acres in North Carolina, Katie Myers has the tales. Local environmental advocate Will Harlan lives in Barnard'sville and works for the Center for Biological Diversity. He wants the administration to keep the roadless rule intact because of its role in protecting the region's environment and economy.
These roadless areas are the spine, the backbone of our outdoor recreation economy, beating heart of biodiversity, their places where hellbenders have the best habitat and they're
“also our secret weapon in fighting climate change.”
The U.S. D.A. says getting rid of the rule will better help communities fight wildfires and secure forest health. The public has until September 21 to comment on the decision. For NPR News, I'm Katie Myers in Barnard'sville, North Carolina. I'm Lakshbe Singh and PR News in Washington.
This week on Charlotte Wave, you are what you eat may not be afraid 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.
