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TOP HEADLINES
Crowded Oklahoma legislative races produce few upsets:
Despite a grueling legislative session and a record number of primary challengers, the majority of Oklahoma House and Senate members seeking re-election were largely successful in Tuesday’s primary elections [NewsOK].
Oklahoma’s congressmen win; 3 GOP state legislators ousted:
It turns out Oklahoma’s five Republican U.S. House members had little to worry about from challengers in Tuesday’s primary election, but the same couldn’t be said for their GOP counterparts in the state Legislature [AP].
American Farm Bureau supports national GMO pre-emption bill:
The American Farm Bureau Federation is supporting proposed Senate legislation that establishes federal pre-emption of what was expected to grow into an unruly patchwork of state-by-state mandatory GMO labeling laws [AFBF].
Sanders sticks fork in Senate GMO labeling bill:
“We cannot allow Vermont’s law to be overturned by bad federal legislation that has just been announced. I will do everything I can to defeat this bill, beginning by putting a hold on it in the Senate” [Vermont Biz].
EPA says it will take months to hand over What’s Upstream files:
A Washington farm group won’t have to pay $2,000, but may have to wait until mid-December for the Environmental Protection Agency to fully release its “voluminous” records related to the What’s Upstream advocacy campaign [Capital Press].
Chamber of Commerce rips Trump’s trade speech in real time:
As Trump pilloried the Trans-Pacific Partnership, an agreement with which Hillary Clinton also disagrees, the Chamber’s Twitter account shared multiple benefits for the trade deal [Politico].
Venezuelans are storming supermarkets and attacking trucks as food supplies dwindle:
Crowds form to sack supermarkets and strip mangoes off trees. Protesters take to the streets to decry the skyrocketing prices and dwindling supplies of basic goods. The wealthy improvise, some shopping online for food that arrives from Miami [Washington Post].
California has a lot more water than some think, new Stanford study suggests:
Drought-stricken California might have a hidden water bonanza [Los Angeles Times].
Watch MidAmerican build nation’s tallest land-based wind turbine:
It took about 30 weeks, but MidAmerican Energy has built the tallest land-based wind turbine in the nation in southern Iowa [Des Moines Register].
