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Republicans are holding a second day of a midterm convention dubbed "Trump up a
“lose-up," Vice President J.D. Vance takes the stage tonight, so will President Trump”
but day after he delivered a lengthy speech during which he unexpectedly promised to pay every American adult $5,000 if Republicans keep control of Congress. As NPR's Tamarchy reports, the audience also got a surprise video message from Pennsylvania
Senator John Fetterman, a Democrat who has been critical of his party's left wing.
The video was an introduction for Pennsylvania's Republican Senator Dave McCormick with whom Fetterman has grown quite close. It was filmed in Pennsylvania with Fetterman wearing his trademark black hoodie. "Right back over my shoulder, that's the iconic U.S. steel mill, and that's exactly the kind of thing that will work together and will work with President Trump to fight and defend
the steel way of life right here in the steel valley." That was as close as he got to praising Trump. In the short video, Fetterman mentioned that he's a Democrat multiple times, while also
“saying he rejects extremes and socialism, Tamarchy and PR news Dallas.”
The U.S. Supreme Court dealt a setback in the GOP's attempts to retain the majority in the U.S. House, Justice Brett Kavanaugh blocked a federal judge's ruling on which map Missouri should use for congressional districts and election that's less than two months away. St. Louis Public Radio's Jason Rosenbaum has a latest map that lawmakers approved in 2022 that
basically guarantees democratic congressmen, a manual cleaver, wins reelection, is back
on right now. Now, the order says that this case could still move through the federal judiciary. So I'm going to be cautious by not saying it's over and the Democrats won. Human Rights Watch is raising concerns over what it calls an unlawful campaign of executions by Iran.
We have more from MPR's Hadeel al-Shalchee According to a statement released by Human
“Rights Watch, at least 59 men were executed by Iranian authorities between mid-March and”
the end of August after the U.S. and Israel launched their war on Iran. The Human Rights Organization says at least 29 of those killed were arrested in connection with the nationwide protests which Iranian authorities violently clamped down on before the war.
The statement says in many cases the defendants were taken from arrest to the gallows in
just five weeks at in many cases the Iranian courts handed down death sentences for non-lethal acts such as throwing stones or breaking into state property. In August, the UN condemned what it called a sharp spike in executions in Iran. Hadeel al-Shalchee NPR News Istanbul. You're listening to NPR News.
Some preachers around the globe were abnormally high or the summer broke several records. This has been the hottest summer in the United States in more than a century more from NPR's Lawrence Summer. It's not your imagination. This summer was hot.
In the U.S., it was the hottest summer in 132 years of record keeping in the lower 48 states. August was also the hottest August on record for both average temperature and maximum temperature. That's according to the National Oceanic and atmospheric administration. Globally, August was also the hottest month ever recorded, tying with July of 2023.
It was about three degrees Fahrenheit hotter than average, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service. The plan is looking at potentially a hot year ahead, too, a very strong El Nino climate pattern is developing, which raises temperatures globally, more in summer and PR news. Author Salman Rushdie is set to receive a medal for lifetime achievement at the National
Book Award ceremony in Manhattan, this November. It is a literary honor reserve for top American riders. The 79-year-old Rushdie has lived in the United States for many years and has been a citizen for the past decade. Rushdie has published more than 20 books.
He is often remembered as the target of a Fatwa for his 1988 novel, The Satanic Verses. In 2022, Rushdie survived and attacked at a New York literary event, where he was repeatedly stabbed, Rushdie later published a memoir about his recovery. It's NPR. History is intriguing, but unlike the present, it can feel far off.
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