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"Safe passage will be provided to ships through the straight-of-war moves, but didn't
say how that would happen. This came after President Trump suspended a similar U.S. operation, saying he is waiting on a deal with Iran. In the United States Senate Republicans who opposed congressional redistricting were largely defeated in yesterday's primary elections. President Trump called for their ouster. Remember, station WFRII, Ben Thor reports the results show Trump's continued sway in Indiana. A majority of incumbent Indiana senators lost
their primary elections after months of political threats and millions of dollars pitted against them. In comments argued their constituents didn't want redistricting during the vote last year,
but now most of them have been voted out. Laura Marifield Wilson is a professor of political
science at the University of Indianapolis. She says, "In U.S. politics incumbents usually win."
“It's highly unusual to see so many challengers defeat incumbents, and I think that has to be”
attributed at least to the current political dynamics. Wilson says the night was a win for Trump and could mean Indiana revisits redistricting next year. For NPR News, I'm Ben Thor in Indianapolis. A new NPR PBS news marist poll says politically, "President Trump is at his lowest point in his presidency." NPR's Dominican Montenaro says despite Trump's primary victories in Indiana, voters will have more to say in November's generally election.
General elections aren't primaries, and Trump has been really toxic with swing voters.
His overall approval rating in our poll is the worst it's ever been, just 37% approve of the job he's doing while 59% disapproved. That can be a real albatross around Republican candidates across the country, especially when key groups appear to be softening or turning away.
“NPR's Dominican Montenaro reporting. One of the issues voters are very troubled by is the rising”
cost of gas due to the war in Iran. Triple A says nationally, the average cost for a gallon of gas is $4.54. Some people in the U.S. are changing their travel plans. NPR Steven Besaha has more. James Ridgeway just landed back home in DC, but he might skip his trip to Europe after seeing the cost of fly. We have tickets to see the cure in Ireland, and I don't think we'll be able to swing it.
Early in Hogan owns the travel advisor company VK's for you, and she says her clients are sticking to domestic travel due to concerns about conflicts overseas. Hawaii is especially popular. Even though Hawaii is an expensive destination when you think about it, however, it gives people a sense of security. According to the travel site kayak international tickets in late April, we're up about $150 compared to a year earlier. Steven Besaha and PR News. You're listening to NPR.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnic is supposed to testify behind closed doors to a house committee today. The panel is investigating late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The lawmakers are seeking information about Lutnic's contact with Epstein after Epstein's conviction in 2008 for soliciting prostitution from a girl. The Trump administration tried to freeze or rescind billions of dollars in 2025 that were destined for science agencies. Researchers and scientists who lost funding from
the National Institutes of Health say they're still suffering, even though some of the money has been restored, and beer's Katie Riddle reports. Standing in his empty laboratory at Harvard, Sean Eddie explains, before his grant from the NIH was cut from the National Institutes of Health, he was looking for the origin of life. My sort of dream is that by comparing modern genome sequences, we can reconstruct computationally evolution back as far as possible, at least to the last
colony in the history of life. Eddie lost funding last year and like many in his position, says the NIH has not been transparent about where things stand with his grant. He had to cut most of his staff. Eddie says he plans to continue looking for the origin of life on his own. Katie Riddle, in PR News. The head of the World Health Organization says three cruise ship passengers who are ill possibly with a rare hunt of virus are being evacuated. WHO chief Tedros Adneham Gabriezes says they're
being taken to the Netherlands, meanwhile the cruise ship remains stationary off the Cape bird islands in the North Atlantic. I'm Core of a Coleman and PR News. At Planet Money, we have been
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