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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News, I'm Charlie L. Snyder.
Who won the Arizona Republican gubernatorial nomination and what endorsements shaped the race?
Congressman Andy Biggs has won the Republican nomination for governor of Arizona, according to a race call by the Associated Press. From member station KJZZ in Phoenix, Cameron Sanchez reports.
Biggs will go on to face incumbent Governor Katie Hobbs in November. Biggs was considered a frontrunner from early on, winning endorsements from President Trump and the political arm of Phoenix-based Turning Point USA. The conservative Republican voted against certifying Arizona's election results in 2020, refusing to acknowledge that Joe Biden won even after a GOP-led audit confirmed the results. But in the race for governor, Biggs has pitched himself as a more moderate candidate who can work across the aisle. For NPR News, I'm Cameron Sanchez in Phoenix.
Republican voters in Arizona also nominated President Trump's preferred candidates in a couple of key congressional races that could help determine control of the House. In Arizona's 6th congressional district, GOP voters stuck with incumbent Juan Siscomani, and former NFL place kicker Jay Feeley won the GOP nomination in Arizona's 1st congressional district. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has fired the country's top military commander following days of protests against the general. NPR's Greg Myvery reports on the second major shakeup to military leadership in the past week.
In a late-night social media post, President Zelensky dismissed the head of the armed forces, General Oleksandr Sersky. The general, age 60, was credited with winning several key battles in recent years. But he's also a Soviet-trained officer who favored rigid battlefield tactics. He clashed with the popular defense minister, 35-year-old Mikhailo Fedorov, a leading advocate of innovative drone warfare. Zelensky fired Fedorov last week. That ignited the protests in support of Fedorov and against the general. These moves create uncertainty at a moment when Ukraine has regained momentum in the war. Zielinski has named a new general to lead the military, but still has an acting defense minister for now.
Greg Myrie, NPR News, Kiev.
Tropical storm Bertha is moving along the Gulf Coast, bringing heavy rain on its way to a potential landfall in Louisiana late Wednesday. Todd Herron is the road manager in Harrison County, Mississippi. He says crews will be keeping an eye on roads that have recently been repaired.
We're in good shape after the four weeks ago. We had several roads that had blowed out. We got them back repaired. The last one that we'd worked on was actually last week on a total blowout, which was Jim Bird. We have some areas that roadways are probably still a little soft from all the material that we had to put in them, but we're going to keep a really good check on them.
Further north, the entire state of West Virginia under a state of emergency. Governor Patrick Morrissey declared the statewide emergency after severe storms sparked catastrophic flooding in the central part of the state. This is NPR. In 2024, more than half a million children living with HIV received medication from a U.S. program called PEPFAR. Last year, the Trump administration made major cuts to the program to prevent HIV abroad. NPR's Derry Buscarin reports on new data showing that 77,000 fewer kids were served last year.
How did Andy Biggs present himself to voters after controversies over the 2020 election?
The State Department credits PEPFAR with saving 26 million lives since it was established under George W. Bush. One of the programs provides antiretroviral medications to children born with HIV. But newly released data show that 10 percent fewer children were served by the program after aid cuts over the last fiscal year. In South Africa, the program served half the number of kids as the year before. Researchers from the Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, which analyzed the data, found that the loss was substantially greater than what is normally seen from year to year, as fewer babies are born with HIV. They also noted that the impact was felt disproportionately among children compared to adults.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:04
2
Who won the Arizona Republican gubernatorial nomination and what endorsements shaped the race?
0:04–3:22
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How did Andy Biggs present himself to voters after controversies over the 2020 election?
3:22–4:20
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Which congressional nominations in Arizona could affect House control and who are the candidates?
4:20–5:04