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Seattle Shooting, Iran War Pause, Midterm Elections

Seattle Shooting, Iran War Pause, Midterm Elections

Up First from NPR
Jul 27, 2026 13 min
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At least three people are dead after a shooting at a food festival in Seattle. Four others are injured, including a 2-year-old boy.  Police say a suspect is in custody, while another is on the loose. After nearly two weeks of intense airstrikes, the U.S. and Iran have paused their attacks and started exchanging messages again. And with fewer than 100 days left until election day, some key races across the country are heating up. We'll take a look at the current state of play.<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 Miguel Macias, Tina Kraja, Ben Swasey, HJ Mai and Ally Schweitzer.<br/><br/>It was produced by Ziad Buchh, Nia Dumas and Christopher Thomas.<br/><br/>We get engineering support from Neisha Heinis. And our technical director is Stacey Abbott.<br/><br/>(0:00) Introduction<br>(01:58) Seattle Shooting<br>(05:25) Iran War Pause<br>(09:07) Midterm Elections<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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