NPR News: 07-25-2026 9PM EDT
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Who won the Maine Democratic nomination to challenge Senator Susan Collins?
Democrats in Maine have officially selected a former state Senate president and fifth-generation logger, Troy Jackson, as their party's nominee to face off against longtime Republican incumbent Senator Susan Collins. And parapolitical reporter Elena Moore reports.
I met Lynn Heasley walking her dog by the harbor over in Belfast, Maine. She told me she volunteered a bunch for Plattner's campaign, and though Jackson has her vote, she says the campaign shakeup sucked some of the energy out of this movement for her.
I'm not completely, like, done and given up. It's a personality thing, and I think what's most important is whether the job gets done.
Other Jackson supporters are still really excited, though. I talked to University of Maine Ph.D. student and delegate Aurora Green.
This isn't about Graham Plattner. This isn't even about Troy Jackson. This is about a movement of working class Mainers and workers.
And Pierre's Elena Moore reporting. The number of people enrolled in SNAP, the federal food assistance program, has been falling since last July, when President Trump's huge tax and spending bill led to sweeping changes. And Pierre's Juliana Kim reports.
SNAP participation dropped by over 4 million people from last July to this April. That's according to the left-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. It's been particularly drastic in Arizona, where 400,000 fewer people receive the food benefits. St. Mary's Food Bank, which operates across the state, is distributing more food than ever, according to its president, Milt Lue. These kinds of increases can't be supported by just food banks.
How are Mainers reacting to the late campaign shakeup and candidate change?
The USDA says the decline in SNAP enrollment isn't representative of any one policy. But it does come as the program undergoes major changes, from expanded work requirements to reduced federal funding. Juliana Kim, NPR News.
Russia has launched another ballistic missile at Ukraine's capital, striking a residential building. This comes hours after Ukrainian President... after Ukrainian drones hit a holiday camp in the Russian-occupied Zaporizhia region overnight, killing at least 12 people, including five children. From Moscow, NPR's Charles Mains reports on Ukraine's attacks in the interior of Russia.
For the 10th time this week, Ukraine attacked warehouses of the online retailer Wildberries, a company often considered Russia's version of Amazon.com. This time, drones targeted a wild berries facility in Ekaterinburg, the main city in Russia's Ural Mountains. Kiev has justified the strikes by accusing wild berries of providing drone technology and other components to Russia's military, a claim the company denies. The attacks have also come in addition to months of Ukraine targeting Russia's energy infrastructure. In the latest, authorities in the Siberian city of Chumen said drones struck an oil refinery without detailing the scale of the damage incurred. Charles Mainz, NPR News, Moscow.
And you're listening to NPR from New York City. In Germany's capital, the famed Pride Parade that draws tens of thousands of people has been canceled after a driver hit a crowd of people, killing at least one person and injured at least 16 others. An active pursuit of the driver is underway, and a police spokesperson says, at this point, we don't know anything about possible motives. The International Energy Agency says renewables are set to overtake coal as an electricity source this year. As NPR's Julia Simon reports, the shift is largely driven by the growth of solar energy.
In their electricity mid-year update, the agency says global renewable energy is forecast to grow 8 percent in 2026. Natural gas output is projected to stay mostly flat. A big part of what's hampering natural gas growth are high prices. following the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran. Five months after the conflict began, European natural gas prices are more than 90 percent higher. Asian natural gas prices are more than 105 percent higher. Meanwhile, solar and battery installations are booming around the world.
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