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"Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Wilman.

President Trump spoke at a rally in South Carolina Friday in support of Senator Darling Graham, that's his pick in the Special U.S. Senate Republican primary election, to replace Graham's late brother Lindsey on the ballot. Gavin Jackson was South Carolina Public Radio reports from Middle Beach." In a debate this week, Senator Darling Graham hesitated and answered a question about China

and Taiwan and said she isn't a national security expert. Trump was friends with Lindsey Graham, who was a national security specialist. The president has endorsed his sister and says she is more focused on affordability issues. "She's about what we have, how much a loaf of bread is going to cause, how much beef is going to cost, beef is coming down rapidly, by the way, but she was very much

about affordability. I think more so than Lindsey."

The economy is top of mine for voters in coastal Ori County, a key Republican area.

Graham faces Congressman Ralph Norman in a runoff Tuesday. For MPR News, I'm Gavin Jackson in mortal beach. President Trump says the government will temporarily allow more beef imports into the U.S. without triggering higher tariffs.

He said Friday that the imported beef will be sold at 25 percent below current market

rates to help American consumers, rural state Republicans are attacking the plan, saying it will hurt American ranchers. Several food-born illnesses have cropped up the summer across the U.S. including the recent cyclospora outbreak, as MPR has reported the Trump administration, his cut federal grants used to handle food safety and outbreak programs.

So food microbiology expert, Don Ashafner of Rutgers, says consumers may want to use now available tools to help keep themselves informed. "There are apps that you can get and services that you can subscribe to, and you will hear about every single recall for every single thing. I subscribe to one of those for about a half a day, and then I decided I couldn't

manage that.

It's important to realize that we have several classifications of recalls, class 1, class

2, and class 3. It's really the class 1 that people need to be aware of. Those are the ones that are triggered in response to a food-born disease outbreak."

One of Mexico's most powerful governors has returned to his post in Sinaloa, this comes

months after the Department of Justice, Unsealed an indictment against him. And Pierre Zader Proto has our reports. The U.S. alleged that a faction of the Sinaloa cartel helped Sinaloa Governor-Rubin Rochamoya get elected, and in return he promised to protect them. Rochamoya took leave, as the Mexican government began its own investigation, now Rochamoya

is back at the governor's palace, citing Mexican authorities saying they did not have concrete evidence to arrest him. Even before the U.S. charged him, the people in his own state have taken to the streets and protest calling him a narco-governor. But Rochamoya is a key ally of Mexico's president and her ruling party.

His unclear is whether he is returning to his post with the blessing of the Mexican

president. It will prompt him in Pierre News, Mexico City, and you're listening to NPR News. An opposition group says, "Me and Mars military conducted an airstrike on Friday that hit a Buddhist monastery in the central Saigon region, 14 people were killed and 20 others were wounded.

The attack came during a week-long meditation retreat." Rochamoya and Brain Development remains one of the most complex mysteries in biology. A new study out this week in the journal Nature shows how tiny clumps of human cells could one day help solve that mystery, and Pierre's Rachel Carlson has a report. Organoids are tiny clusters of human cells grown in labs, scientists use them to study

human brain development, but organoids usually last for months, maybe a year. That means they only show researchers very early stages of the human brain. But for this new study, scientists managed to make some organoids grow for five years. Dr. Goli Ming is a neuroscientist at the University of Pennsylvania. She was an involved in this study, but says it's the longest lifespan of organoids to date.

This is a technology breakthrough.

During this time, the organoids matured to show characteristics of a four-year-old human brain. Ming says this means researchers could potentially use organoids in longer term developmental studies. Rachel Carlson and Pierre News

A federal appeals court has temporarily halted a court order that would have granted thousands of college athletes an extra year of eligibility. The decision comes just eight days before the college football season gets underway. The lawsuit was filed by players who graduated high school in 2022 and are not included in a new NCAA rule that gives most players five years of eligibility.

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