"Li," from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi, saying.
President Trump argues the U.S. war with Iran is over because of the April cease fire,
“critics say not so Democrats and a handful of Republicans have pushed unsuccessfully to limit”
Trump's military actions in the Middle East. Today marks the 60-day deadline for Congress to intervene, so far the GOP majority in Congress has made no attempt at enforcing requirements under the War Powers' resolution of 1973 to authorize use of force, grant, and extension, or withdraw troops. This, as the American public grapples with higher gas prices, stemming from competing
blockades in the state of Hormuz, at the White House today, President Trump sought to reassure the public. "The war ends ghastly prices are going to double because there is so much right now on the sea, already loaded into tankers, tankers who can't escape the strike. There is so much like record setting, but when the war ends ghastly prices will go down
to the low and they will get it."
Triple A says on average, people in the U.S. are now paying around $4.40 for a gallon of regular gasoline, and some places like California prices top $6. Federal courts across the U.S. are overwhelmed by a surge in immigration cases, Hawaii
“Public Radio's Maddie Bender reports, judges in their state are stepping into how courts”
in California. Federal judges in Hawaii have taken on more than 50 immigration cases from three districts in California. All our heaviest corpus petitions, in which detained immigrants alleged the government is unlawfully holding them in custody.
The Eastern District of California has received more than 3,000 petitions from immigration detainees since last January, more than almost any other district in the country.
Chief Judge Troy Nunley says his district is grateful to be outsourcing cases to judges
in Hawaii. "It was taken as toll on all of our judges, it was taken and not only the judges, it takes the toll on our staff, and we were getting these cases at all hours of the night." Judges in San Francisco and Washington State are also pitching in to help the district's case load.
"For NPR News, I'm Maddie Bender in Honolulu, Hawaii."
“Voting starts tomorrow in Louisiana's primary elections.”
This despite the Supreme Court decision this week, the strike down the state's congressional map, and here is actually Lopez reports. Louisiana's Republican Secretary of State Nancy Landry announced that most of Louisiana's primaries, including a closely-watched Senate primary, will proceed as scheduled, but not the house seats.
Early voting in the state starts on Saturday and voting ends on May 16 for the state's primary's absentee voting has already been underway. Republican Governor Jeff Landry said the state is sending notices to early voting sites to warn voters that even though U.S. House races will appear on their ballots, those votes will not be counted.
It is unclear when Louisiana will hold elections for seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. "It's NPR News." British authorities have charged a 45-year-old manning connection with an attack investigators are characterizing as an act of terrorism. They say ESA's Suleiman has been charged with three counts of attempted murder.
Authorities say Suleiman attacked a long-time friend in South London, then took a train to another part of the city, and sought to target Jewish people, two men there, sustained stat wounds. The Census Bureau starts a field test for the 2030 Census today in parts of Alabama and South Carolina and Piers Hansi Lowong reports the test is expected to involve letter carriers
from the U.S. Postal Service. The Census Bureau is asking households in Huntsville, Alabama, and Spartanburg, South Carolina to fill in online survey. Households that don't may be interviewed in-person starting in June by Census Workers or Letter Carriers.
It's part of a Trump administration overhaul of the 2026 Census Test that's drawn skepticism from Census Watchers who say to pass government accountability office study that found that using postal workers to conduct interviews would not be cost-effective. This test census asks people about their U.S. citizenship status. Research shows that's likely to hurt the accuracy of numbers used to redistribute political
representation and federal funding. In a court-failing of the Trump administration says it may soon formally propose to alter census numbers that the 14th Amendment says must include the "hole number of persons" in each state. May 1st marks May Day when activists around the globe hold demonstrations, economic boycotts,
and other gatherings in support of labor rights. This is NPR News. This week on the MPR Politics podcast, a landmark Supreme Court ruling just up ended Louisiana's congressional maps, and effectively gutted the voting rights act. Meanwhile, in Florida, Republicans have unveiled a new map of their own aiming to net the GOP
for congressional seats. We break down what it means for this November's midterms, on the MPR Politics podcast.
