Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Skivone.
It's primary election day in Kentucky, all lies are on the northern Kentucky congressional
“district where President Trump is trying to knock out another perceived adversary Republican”
Congressman Thomas Massey. Kentucky Public Radio's Sylvia Goodman has details. Trump's hand-picked candidate, former Navy SEAL, a gal-rime is making a bid for Massey's seat in a closely watched race that could have implications for the future of the GOP.
Massey has emerged as a prominent Republican dissenting voice in Trump's second term, pushing
back against the President's use of executive power and forcing a vote on the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files. "It's a referendum on whether every Republican in that house in the Senate is going to be a rubber stamp for the executive branch or not." Gal-Rine has made it clear he won't diverge from Trump's vision for the country.
"I'm 100% behind the president." Now it's up to the voters, from here news, I'm Sylvia Goodman, in Louisville, Kentucky. San Diego Police say that five people are dead, including two suspects following Monday shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego.
“Corey Suzuki of Weber Station KPBS reports.”
"The Islamic Center of San Diego is the largest mosque in San Diego County.
Police say they found three people dead in front of the building.
They found the two teenagers who they think were the shooters in a car several blocks away. They were also dead." Taha Hassan is the mom and director of the Islamic Center of San Diego. He said his community was in mourning. "The religious intolerance and the hate, unfortunately that exists in our nation is unprecedented."
San Diego police chief Scott Wall said they are investigating the shooting as a hate crime. He declined to provide specific details, but said there was generalized hate rhetoric and speech involved. For NPR News, I'm Corey Suzuki in San Diego. An American doctor in Congo is now among those infected with a rare type of Ebola at
the White House. Dr. Heidi Overton, Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy.
“Told reporters, "There is an American that is symptomatic and has tested positive for”
it's the Bundybuja virus, a strain of Ebola. That American as well as six other high-risk contacts are going to be taken out of that region. And taken to Germany. I want to thank our German counterparts that is an internationally recognized location
for viral hemorrhagic fever treatments." The World Health Organization is calling the latest health outbreak in international public health emergency. Service on the Long Island Railroad is expected to resume around midday today after a strike shutdown yesterday morning's commute to Queens at Manhattan for thousands of workers from
Long Island. A deal was reached last night between New York's mass transportation authority and the unions New York's Governor Kathy Hockel said the resolution had produced a fair salary increase for the 3,500 striking rail workers. This is NPR News in Washington.
The National Weather Service has been on a hiring spree after cuts by the Trump administration to shrink the agency by about 15%, but when hurricane season arrives next month, the agency says it will be ready. Jenny's "Delete of Itch" from Member Station WLRN has more. By September, the service plans to hire 450 entry-level meteorologists to make up for cuts
that left some offices scrambling to provide around the clock coverage. So far, the agency says it's reached about half its goal. But some worry about a brain drain among the nation's forecasters. Most who left last year, approximately 500, were career forecasters taking early retirement. The union that represents them says that attrition rate is normally spread over a decade.
The Trump administration has also cut researchers who investigate hurricanes. In Florida, about 2 dozen were cut. The administration also wants to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research, which helps build models and instruments that better predict storms. For MPR News, I'm Jenny Stilettovich.
The Trump administration has announced the creation of a nearly $1.8 billion fund to compensate
the president's allies who believe they were unjustly investigated and prosecuted by the Biden administration. The fund was announced yesterday by the Justice Department as part of a deal to resolve President Trump's lawsuit against the IRS over the leak of his tax returns, Democrats and government watchdogs are pledging to fight it, calling it unprecedented and corrupt.
I'm Louise Skivone and PR News, Washington. We flush a lot of things down the toilet, you know, the obvious ones. But drugs like cocaine are also going down the drain and into our waterways. That's changing the animals that live in it. It's definitely President and most of the ecosystem's on earth now, unfortunately, through
only started this scratch to surface into understanding the potential consequences of that.
