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Democratic Party Divide, Lettuce is Saving You Green, Colombia Rescue Efforts

Democratic Party Divide, Lettuce is Saving You Green, Colombia Rescue Efforts

Up First from NPR
Aug 13, 2026 13 min
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Recent primary results were supposed to offer clues on voters’ appetite for progressive candidates. But the results — so far — paint a muddled picture. What does that mean for the party’s midterm strategy? And new inflation numbers are out and lettuce was a highlight. How are the leafy greens impacting the cost of living? Plus, rescue teams in Colombia are racing to find the nearly 500 earthquake victims still buried under rubble.<br/><br/><em>Want more analysis of the most important news of the day, plus a little fun? </em><a href="https://www.npr.org/newsletter/news"target="_blank" >Subscribe</a><em> to the Up First newsletter.</em><br/><br/>Today’s episode of Up First was edited by Arezou Rezvani, Alice Woelfle, Jason Breslow, Rafael Nam and Tina Kraja. <br/><br/>It was produced by Ziad Buchh and Milton Guevara. <br/><br/>Our director is Christopher Thomas. <br/><br/>We get engineering support from Carleigh Strange. Our technical director is Zac Coleman.<br/><br/>And our deputy Executive Producer is Kelley Dickens.<br/><br/>Support public media with NPR+ and enjoy perks for over 25 podcasts like this one. This show’s perks include sponsor-free listening. Learn more at <a href="http://plus.npr.org/"target="_blank" >plus.npr.org</a>.<br/><br/>(0:00) Introduction<br>(01:51) Democratic Party Divide<br>(05:38) Lettuce is Saving You Green<br>(09:23) Colombia Rescue Efforts<br/><br/>See <a href="https://pcm.adswizz.com">pcm.adswizz.com</a> for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.npr.org/about-npr/179878450/privacy-policy">NPR Privacy Policy</a>

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