NPR News: 09-01-2026 12PM EDT
Summary
Army Secretary Dan Driscoll has resigned after clashing with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, while Massachusetts voters decide a Democratic Senate primary between Seth Moulton and Ed Markey. The segment also covers California’s new wildfire liability laws, the death of author Wendell Berry, and the final relocation of captive whales from the shuttered Marineland in Ontario.
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Army Secretary Dan Driscoll resigns
Massachusetts Senate primary: Moulton vs. Markey
California legislature votes on wildfire liability
Novelist and environmentalist Wendell Berry dies
Marineland completes whale relocation
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