NPR News: 08-05-2026 1AM EDT
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder.
Which primary results in five states will shape the November midterm elections?
Voters in five states have settled primary races that will shape the November midterm elections. In Kansas, Democrats have chosen the Reverend Adam Hamilton as their nominee for the U.S. Senate seat held by Republican Roger Marshall.
I don't know about you, but many times I've looked at Washington and thought, this is wrong. This is not who we are. We simply have to do better. By the way, this isn't a Republican or Democrat thing. All of us, Republicans and Democrats, care about decency and humanity.
Hamilton is the leader of the country's largest United Methodist Church.
Who is Adam Hamilton and why did Kansas Democrats choose him for the U.S. Senate race?
Kansas Democratic voters chose him over 10 other candidates. Primary voters also went to the polls in Virginia, Missouri, Washington State, and Michigan, where a key race for an open Senate seat has yet to be called. Summer travelers continue feeling the cost not just of elevated gas prices, but also flights. NPR's Stephen Passaha says tickets for both domestic and international flights are up since the start of the U.S. war against Iran.
An average domestic flight last week cost about $80 more than it did a year ago, according to the travel site Kayak. Henry Bernal is a lecturer at California State University, Fullerton, and says even if a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz is reached, it'll take a long time for flights to get cheaper.
That's actually a similar pattern to what we saw following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It took about a year after gas prices started going down until we saw the same pattern with airfares.
The average international flight was about $170 more expensive than the same time last year.
Stephen Basaja, NPR News. President Trump is in Los Angeles arriving Tuesday evening for a fundraising dinner at his golf club outside the city. He touched down after authorities said they had arrested a man who appeared to be monitoring security planning at the club. The L.A. County Sheriff's Department says the man was taking photos and video, had a 16-round magazine with ammunition in his pocket and a loaded pistol in his car. Gaza City, nearly three years after an Israeli airstrike wiped out much of one extended family, relatives gathered for a mass funeral. And Birsan Asbaba was there.
What lay on the stretchers were not freshly wrapped bodies, but mostly skeletal remains. Each was covered with a Palestinian flag, sprinkled with bright pink bougainvillea petals, and marked with a photograph of the person inside. Thousands of mourners and relatives stood shoulder to shoulder as 112 members of the Abu Sharia family were carried on shoulders to be laid to rest. They were killed in an Israeli airstrike in November 2023. Their remains were recovered only after two weeks of digging through layers of crushed concrete, nearly three years later. For the Abu Sharia family, the funeral brought a painful kind of closure. Across Gaza, thousands of other families are still waiting for someone to pull their loved ones from beneath the rubble.
Anas Baba, NPR News, Gaza.
This is NPR News. The House Ethics Committee has opened an investigation into Ohio Republican Congressman Max Miller. Miller says he requested the investigation to clear his name after his former wife accused him of abuse. On Sunday, his former father-in-law, Ohio Republican Senator Bernie Moreno, said Miller is not fit to hold public office. Miller denies the allegations. He faces a Wednesday deadline to decide whether to remain on the November ballot. A month after the Trump administration's launch date for workforce Pell grants or free money for low-income students seeking job training, the first program has been approved. NPR's Sequoia Carrillo reports that some other programs, though, were left in limbo.
The Emergency Medical Technician Training Program at Iowa Central Community College is the first workforce Pell program approved by the Trump administration. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon announced the designation alongside Iowa's governor. Workforce Pell is an expansion passed in 2025 of the decades-old federal Pell Grant program.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:04
2
Which primary results in five states will shape the November midterm elections?
0:04–0:35
3
Who is Adam Hamilton and why did Kansas Democrats choose him for the U.S. Senate race?
0:35–4:11
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How are airfares and travel costs changing amid the U.S. war with Iran?
4:11–5:04