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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Willman.
Who did Maine Democrats pick to replace Graham Plattner for U.S. Senate?
Maine Democrats selected their new candidate for the U.S. Senate Saturday, less than three weeks after Graham Plattner withdrew from the race because of sexual assault allegations. Delegate selected Troy Jackson. NPR's Elena Moore is at the convention for the vote and offers this profile.
What is Troy Jackson’s political background and core policy priorities?
Well, he's no stranger to Maine politics, spending two decades in state government, and he's built a record advocating for a handful of issues that were really core to Plattner's campaign, too, like passing Medicare for All and raising taxes on corporations and the ultra-wealthy. Plus, Jackson has a blue-collar background. He's a fifth-generation logger, and at a time when a lot of voters say they're struggling to keep up with high costs and feel like leaders in D.C. aren't listening to them, voters see Jackson as a better advocate for rural and working-class Mainers.
That's NPR's Elena Moore. This Senate rate is expected to be one of the most competitive in the country. The occupied West Bank is on edge this weekend as the Israeli military conducts raids there.
What happened during recent Israeli raids and settler violence in the West Bank?
More than 70 Palestinians have been arrested, and four Palestinian men and two Israeli citizens were killed in a gunfight Friday southwest of the Palestinian city of Nablus. NPR's Nouha Mousli has our reports.
The governor of Nablus told NPR that a settler attack in the Palestinian village of Tel led to the killing of four Palestinians. Israel says one settler and one Israeli soldier were killed. The situation is extremely difficult, Douglas says. The Israeli army has imposed a curfew on the area and closed off the area.
What details explain the deadly Colorado wildland firefighter burnover?
Israel's prime minister praised the settlers as, quote, heroic and has claimed, despite video evidence to the contrary, that Israeli settlers were attacked while on a hike. For NPR News, this is Noha Musleh from Ramallah.
Federal fire officials say a fourth wildland firefighter has now died after he and three other firefighters were burned over the last month at a wildfire in Colorado. And as NPR's Kirk Siegler reports, there's been some rain lately that has helped the broader firefighting efforts.
The Interior Department identified the fourth firefighter fatality, 43-year-old Nathan Matthews of Lincoln, Nebraska.
What were the early reports and impacts of the Russian attack on Kyiv?
He and the other crew members were on a hell attack team where a chopper drops firefighters into remote forests where new ignitions have started when they were engulfed in flames with no escape route. Three other firefighters, Emily Barker, Nick Hutcherson, and Sydney Watson, died at the scene June 27th. This all comes as the job of wildland firefighting is becoming increasingly dangerous, with prolonged heat waves and drought due to climate change, and more than a century of suppressing wildfires has also created a dangerous buildup of fuels and forests.
How did researchers discover transmissible skin cancer in Lake Memphremagog catfish?
Kirk Sigler, NPR News, Boise.
And you're listening to NPR News. Russian forces attacked the Ukrainian capital of Kiev early Sunday. The city's mayor says falling debris triggered fires in at least three districts. So far, there have been no reports of casualties. Ukraine's air force had initially said Russia was using ballistic missiles, but a warning of missile deployment was canceled after 50 minutes. Researchers have discovered a kind of transmissible skin cancer in catfish. The find was in a lake that stretches from the Canadian province of Quebec into Vermont. Empires Ari Daniel says it may have important things to teach us about how tumors spread.
More than a decade ago, all of a sudden, melanomas started showing up on brown bullhead catfish in Lake Memphremagog. Peter Emerson is a fish biologist with the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department.
It looks like black tar on the skin. Not very pretty.
The melanomas don't appear to be caused by anything in the environment. Rather, when researchers sequenced the DNA of the fish and their cancers, they found the tumors resembled one another closely, suggesting the cancers are clones that likely arose in a fish some time ago and have been spreading from catfish to catfish ever since.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:01–0:04
2
Who did Maine Democrats pick to replace Graham Plattner for U.S. Senate?
0:04–0:20
3
What is Troy Jackson’s political background and core policy priorities?
0:20–1:04
4
What happened during recent Israeli raids and settler violence in the West Bank?
1:04–1:42
5
What details explain the deadly Colorado wildland firefighter burnover?
1:42–2:22
6
What were the early reports and impacts of the Russian attack on Kyiv?
2:22–2:53
7
How did researchers discover transmissible skin cancer in Lake Memphremagog catfish?
2:53–4:59