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Nancy Pelosi weighs in on the race to succeed her. A Blue Origin rocket explodes on the launchpad and shakes nearby houses in Florida. And why teen \u201ctakeovers\u201d are spreading across the country.
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Nancy Pelosi did not plan to endorse anyone in the race to succeed her in Congress. But after noting how many women who used to represent California have been replaced by men, the former speaker felt she had to step in for a female candidate, she told NBC News in an exclusive interview.
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Pelosi has thrown her support behind San Francisco supervisor Connie Chan. Polls show state Sen. Scott Wiener far ahead in next week\u2019s primary, while Chan and Saikat Chakrabarti, a wealthy tech engineer and co-founder of the progressive group Justice Democrats, slug it out for the No. 2 spot on the November ballot.
The first woman to serve as speaker of the House, Pelosi says she was motivated by her hopes to put more women \u201cat the table,\u201d not her desire to keep one man away from it. \u201cTo have a woman who\u2019s top-notch, young woman, a mom \u2014 that\u2019s really important \u2014 and an Asian American, a Chinese American, to me, I just thought she would do the very best job, and that\u2019s what the measure of it was,\u201d Pelosi said. \u201cI want a woman who can do, and I want a person who can do, the best job. Connie is that person.\u201d
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Another closely watched race in California\u2019s primaries will be the race for Los Angeles mayor. Former reality TV star Spencer Pratt, 42, is running as a Republican against Mayor Karen Bass and L.A. Councilwoman Nithya Raman. Like the House primary, the top two vote-getters will advance to the November runoff.
In an interview with \u201cNBC Nightly News\u201d anchor Tom Llamas, Pratt said he never intended to be a mayoral candidate, but \u201cI\u2019m forced into this because politicians are failing us as taxpayers.\u201d He spoke to Llamas about a Trump endorsement (\u201cPeople don\u2019t care,\u201d he said) and some of his policy priorities.
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President Donald Trump is reviewing the latest version of a potential agreement with Iran but has not yet signed off on it, according to two U.S. officials.
The proposed deal would extend the Middle East ceasefire and restore shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, but did not address more complex issues such as Iran\u2019s nuclear program, sources said.
Vice President JD Vance told reporters yesterday that Washington was \u201cnot there yet\u201d with Iran, but said negotiators were \u201cvery close\u201d to reaching a final agreement.
\u201cWe\u2019re not there yet, but we\u2019re very close,\u201d Vance said. \u201cWe\u2019re going to keep on working at it.\u201d
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A rocket belonging to Jeff Bezos\u2019 Blue Origin exploded during an engine-firing test at the launch pad in Cape Canaveral, Florida, last night. No one was hurt, officials said, though the explosion shook nearby homes and briefly painted the sky orange. Yesterday\u2019s test of the massive New Glenn rocket was being conducted ahead of a satellite launch planned for next week.
The New Glenn was grounded last month after it left a satellite in the wrong orbit because of an engine failure. It was only the third flight of the rocket that Blue Origin intends to use to launch landers to the moon for NASA, including landers that will take astronauts to the lunar surface.
What NASA\u2019s administrator and Elon Musk said after the explosion.<\/strong><\/a>
Police in Chicago clashed with hundreds of teenagers in separate incidents over Memorial Day weekend, resulting in dozens of arrests and some officers sustaining minor injuries. But what happened there wasn\u2019t unique to Chicago. The large-scale meetups were the latest in a phenomenon that law enforcement officials call teen \u201ctakeovers,\u201d which have also taken place in New York City, Washington, D.C., Atlanta and Milwaukee, to name a few.
Sure, teenagers behaving badly in groups is hardly a new thing. But experts point out that social media has made it easier for groups to rapidly mobilize, and many young people are seeking out connection and community after the Covid pandemic, when many teens spent their middle school years in lockdown. Plus, so-called \u201cthird spaces\u201d that are not home or school are increasingly harder to find.
The one group authorities say need to step up to deal with the crisis.<\/strong><\/a>
When we first spoke with Brandi Sharp, she was desperate for her insurer to approve a type of brain surgery to hopefully alleviate her 13-year-old daughter Cambrie\u2019s daily, treatment-resistant seizures. The Sharp\u2019s insurer, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, had twice denied the surgery, deep brain stimulation, because it is not FDA-approved for children.
But multiple doctors we spoke to said the procedure can be effective for kids \u2014 and they\u2019ve seen insurers cover it. Cambrie didn\u2019t understand why she was different. She asked her mom, \u201cWhy don\u2019t they want me to get better?\u201d
A few days after we reached out to Anthem BCBS asking why they were denying the procedure, it reversed its decision. And a few weeks after that, the insurer went even further, changing its coverage policy to include deep brain stimulation for some children and teens who meet clinical criteria.
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