Live from MPR News on Jial Snyder.
President Trump is set to hit the road today.
He is to visit a pharmaceutical company in Cincinnati and then appear in the district of Kentucky Republican Congressman Thomas Massey, one of Trump's most prominent GOP critics in Congress. The awardee, Ron, will be in the back drop in MPOs, Franco, or Donia's reports on how the conflict is playing out among congressional Republicans. Republican House members are very concerned about midterm elections he's in coming up.
They want the president to be focused more on domestic economic issues.
“And I think you're kind of seeing those signs of that as Trump tries to make the pivot,”
because it is his kind of MO, not to be in a long lasting war. He wants strategic strikes. The US and Israel have been carrying out what are being called the heaviest strikes on
Iran since the war started more than a week ago.
Ron is retaliating firing missiles and launching drones at targets across the region, including oil, infrastructure, and Saudi Arabia. House Speaker Mike Johnson says he and President Trump are in lock step in their plans to pass stricter federal voting requirements. Trump says the bill he calls to save America act as this year's number one priority.
And here's Claudia Gresselos reports. Speaker Johnson said he'll keep working to defend President Trump's top priority this year despite setbacks in the Senate.
“He reiterated the message Trump delivered Monday to House Republicans at their retreat,”
taking place at his derail resort. And the president is laser focused on that and we are as well and will continue to message it and do everything we can and literally branch to try to get it done. Outside of a potential deal to fund the Department of Homeland Security Trump says he will not sign any other legislation to law until the save act is sent to his desk.
The bill is stuck in the GOP led Senate where Democrats are blocking passage. For now, Senate Majority Leader John Thun is shutting down calls from the hard right to end that blockade with a so-called "talking filibuster." Claudia Decellis and Pierre News. Now to Europe where the German auto company Volkswagen, the country's largest employer, says
it will cut 50,000 jobs in Germany by 2030 as its profits dropped through their lowest levels in a decade, and Pierre's Rob Schmitt reports. VW chief executive Oliver Bluma told shareholders that the cuts would take place in Germany and fall across all of the company's holdings, including Audi and Porsche. Europe's largest automaker says its profits had fallen by 44% in 2025.
Bluma said the company was hit hard by U.S. import tariffs, intense competition from China, and high restructuring costs from the shift from combustion engines to electric vehicles. The company projects profits as low as 4% in 2026, even lower than last year's. The company's woes reflect a lagging German economy that is vulnerable to energy price fluctuations and tariffs.
Rob Schmitt and Pierre News. This is NPR. Major tornado damage is being reported in Kankyke County, Illinois, South of Chicago. Officials say the tornado downtries and power lines in overwhelmed the 911 Center where the emergency calls, the county sheriff says the tornado touched down near the fairgrounds
and Newton County, Indiana, multiple homes were reported destroyed to NATO watches and effect from Texas to Michigan. A meeting between the WMBA and its players, Union Stretch passed midnight last night as a deadline to reach a deal is at hand. A meeting at a hotel in New York City came on the day.
The league said it needed at least a handshake agreement on a new collective bargaining agreement. Seven new sharing is the key sticking point.
In Miami on Tuesday, Ben at a bio under the Miami heat came through with a second highest
point total in single game history, putting up a remarkable 83 points to bottom end reports.
“It was a game that Ben at a bio will never forget.”
Yes sir, half out some more, a 30 point first quarter. The call on the Miami heat network, early on it was clear he was on a scoring tear. By half time he had 43 points and it continued in the second half. With just over a minute left in the game, he scored his 83 point surpassing Kobe Bryant's 81 point performance in 2006 after the game at a bio talked about Bryant.
To be 83 and you pass him just a surreal moment being in the company with somebody you out of loud growing up. Will Chamberlain still hold the all-time record for most points in the single game 100? For MPR News, I'm Steve Futterman. - This is MPR News.
