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power of political retribution playing out in an unexpected place. Half a dozen Indiana State Senate primaries, as NPR's Tamarkeeth reports, the voting ends there today." President Trump said the Republican State senators who rejected his push for new congressional maps should be ashamed of themselves, then he and his political allies work to recruit
challengers and have dumped millions of dollars into the races. Republican State Senator Spencer Deary is one of the targeted incumbents.
“"You've seen at the national level, but I think what is unprecedented is at the local”
level.
To my knowledge there has never been an election in our nation's history where you have
Washington DC meddling this much in a systematic way across the state." A political adviser to President Trump tells NPR these incumbents are headed to their "political slaughter." Tamerkeeth and P.R. News. "You as Supreme Court is temporarily reinstated people's ability to get the abortion
drug myth of pristone, after they meet with a health provider online. Louisiana is challenging how the drug is prescribed. Louisiana significantly limits abortion. It wants to stop its residents from getting abortion medication from providers out of state."
And P.R. Selena Simmons-Duffin says that in 2021, a rule was dropped that required patients to go in person to obtain myth of pristone.
“When Roe V. Wade was overturned in 2022, this rule's change became extremely important.”
It helped create a system that has allowed medication to be mailed to residents in states with bands, and that's a big part of the reason why the number of abortions nationally has not gone down at all despite all of the state bands. And P.R. Selena Simmons-Duffin reporting. Pentagon officials are holding a press conference in one hour.
They are expected to discuss conditions in the state of Hormuz. It was military help to commercial ships transit the state yesterday. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says Ukraine fired missiles deep into Russian territory last night. This comes as Ukraine also declares that temporary cease fires starting tomorrow through Saturday.
It comes ahead of Russia's celebration marking the end of World War II. And P.R.S. Joanna Keckis' reports Russia also declares a temporary truce. Writing on social media, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said his proposed truce would start on midnight May 6, the couple of days before the one offered by the Kremlin. Speaking in the Armenian capital, Eurovon on Monday, Zelensky said Russian leaders are not
including military equipment in the upcoming Victory Day parade in Moscow. "And if he adorns, may boss or arrest where, this is telling." The previous attempts at temporary cease fires have failed with Russia and Ukraine accusing each other of violations. Joanna Keckis' and P.R. News. This is NPR.
“The U.S. Secret Service says its officers in Washington, D.C. shot a man near the Washington”
monument yesterday. That's not far from the White House. The Secret Service says the man opened fire first and officers returned fire. A teenage boy bystander was wounded and so was the suspect. This is the second week of testimony in a federal civil trial brought by billionaire Elon
Musk against artificial intelligence company, OpenAI. Musk claims the company and CEO Sam Altman betrayed founding principles. Meanwhile, OpenAI's president and co-founder took the stand yesterday. From Member Station KQED, Rachel Myrote reports. "OpenAI, the company behind-chat GPT, started in Greg Brockman's living room a decade ago.
Brockman said he and Sam Altman built OpenAI's team with a little help from Elon Musk. testimony also revealed Brockman went from a salary of $175,000 to an equity stake worth some $30 billion today thanks to undisclosed compensation from Sam Altman, a hidden financial
arrangement Musk's lawyers say proves profit was always the real priority."
OpenAI says Musk knew profit was always the plan and was fine with it until he lost control. When we'll return to the stand followed by testimony from Shivan Zillis, the mother of four of Musk's children and for a time his eyes and ears on the board at OpenAI. For NPR News, I'm Rachel Myrote. "The National Weather Service says late season snow is falling on central Colorado and southern
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