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live from NPR News in New York City, I'm Doha Elisa Kowtow. Democrats in Bangor, Maine today nominated Troy Jackson, a fifth generation logger and former legislative leader to take on Republican Senator Susan Collins. This is one of the nation's closest watch congressional races as Kevin Miller with Maine Public Radio reports.
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Jackson received all but five of the 571 votes cast by Democratic delegates during a special convention. He replaces Graham Platner, an oysterman and Marine Corps veteran who withdrew earlier this month. Like Platner, Jackson pledged to work toward universal health care to protect abortion rights and to stand up to the Trump administration.
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Are you ready to defeat Susan Collins? Well, then let's unite this party. Let's build the largest working class movement Maine has ever seen and let's win this fight.
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Jackson will now face Collins, a 30 year Senate veteran who is the only Republican member of Congress from New England. For NPR News, I'm Kevin Miller.
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Amid the U. S led war against Iran, a dormant decade long conflict between Saudi Arabia and Iran backed militants in Yemen has erupted again. More from NPR's Emily Feng.
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Saudi Arabia has been trading fire with Iran backed Houthis in Yemen starting two weeks ago this week. The Houthis announced a blockade of the Bab Al Mandib Strait which Saudi Arabia is increasingly using to export its oil internationally because another waterway, the Strait of Hormuz, is effectively cut off by Iran. All this will further disrupt maritime traffic and global trade. The Houthis fired at two Saudi ships in the Red Sea this week. So Saudi Arabia then struck a port in Yemen and a Yemeni island on Friday. And in further retaliation, the Houthis say they've now aimed strikes at a city in Saudi Arabia this weekend. Emily Fang, NPR News.
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Fast moving wildfires continue to burn in Southern Europe this weekend. NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports. Evacuations are underway.
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French Prime Minister Sebastien Le Cornu said the fire had reached conditions that, quote, we have never seen before and that more than 141,000 people have been evacuated from the Gironde and Landes region where which lie close to Bordeaux. President Emmanuel Macron has mobilized the army to assist as firefighters battle blazes they say are spreading quickly in high winds and across parched land. Fires are also raging near the Spanish capital of Madrid. Scientists say Europe is heating faster than other places on the planet due to man made Global warming conditions 3 consecutive heat waves have left drought conditions across the continent. EU figures say more than 1200 fires have already burned through 600,000 acres this year. Eleanor Beardsley, NPR News.
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Tomorrow's final stage of the Tour de France, the annual cycling race that ends in Paris, will be shortened because security forces have been reassigned to help with fires. You're listening to NPR News from New York City. A teaching assistant robot named Sally was supposed to be introduced to a high school on the Seneca Nation reservation in New York this fall, but criticism from parents and concerns over data collection have the program on hold for now. Budget shortfalls and declining enrollment in the US are top concerns for K12 school leaders. That's according to a recent survey from the Nonpartisan research organization RAND. NPR's Kaden Mills reports.
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The nationally representative survey, conducted in the spring, found that school districts are trying to address their funding gaps in part by competing for students. The survey asked leaders from 38 school districts to rank their top concerns. Among them were rising costs and declining revenues. The cost of services has increased and state funding has not kept up. Many of the schools surveyed say they are attempting to address budget shortfalls by increasing their enrollment. Some are experimenting with marketing campaigns and increased services, like expanding options for extracurriculars and pre K programs, though Rand acknowledges that already tight budgets don't leave much room for that. Kaden Mills, NPR News.
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In southern China, hundreds of thousands of people living near the coast of Guangdong are evacuating ahead of Typhoon Null. China's National Meteorological center says Null is expected to make landfall early Sunday morning around the cities of Shenzhen and Haipheng, with possible maximum sustained winds of 90 mph. In Hong Kong, hundreds of flights have already been canceled and public transportation, including high speed bullet trains, have been suspended. This is npr.
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