Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryle and Barton.
President Trump vanquished more perceived Republican foes tonight, according to race calls
from the Associated Press.
“His preferred candidate in a northern Kentucky district, Ed Gaul Ryan, defeated incumbent”
Congressman Thomas Massey in a Republican primary election. Massey helped lead the fight to release the Jeffrey Epstein files, and consistently opposed Trump's involvement in foreign conflicts. All Ryan will face Democrat Melissa Strange in the General Election, and in Georgia's race for Governor Lieutenant Governor Burke Jones and billionaire health care executive Rick
Jackson, will advance to a runoff Republican primary election, Brad Raffinsberger, who rejected Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia as Secretary of State did not advance. The winner of the runoff will face Keisha Lance, bottoms the former mayor of Atlanta in the General Election in November.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche was on Capitol Hill today, and testimony before Senate lawmakers Blanche defended a nearly $1.8 billion fund created to compensate people affected by what President Trump calls the "weaponization of the Justice Department under the Biden administration," and appears Ryan Lucas reports.
“The Justice Department announced the nearly $1.8 billion fund as part of a settlement agreement”
with President Trump, who in return dropped his lawsuit against the IRS. The Department says it will consider claims from people who were victims of weaponization and law fair. Democratic senators slammed the settlement as a slush fund, and here's Washington Democrat Patty Murray.
This is corruption that has never been more blatant or more bright-sped.
What is happening is you write the check, Trump and his corny's cashet, American taxpayers, who are already being worked with high prices, are going to foot the bill. Blanche defended the arrangement and said Democrats and Republicans could submit claims. He also didn't rule out that January 6th Capitol rioters could be eligible to receive payments. Ryan Lucas and PR news, Washington.
The Department of Justice is investigating Washington State prisons over its trans-inmate policies, Casey Martin from KUOW and Seattle reports. The DOJ says it's investigating if the rights of FEMA prisoners have been violated since they are housed with trans-women.
“In a letter from the Civil Rights Division to the governor of Washington on Tuesday, the”
Department says Washington prisons fail to protect FEMA prisoners from violence and harassment from prisoners who identify as FEMA. Late last month, a prisoner at a women's prison and a non-profit sued the State Department of Corrections after she says she was attacked by a trans-inmate. The DOJ letter doesn't directly mention this ongoing lawsuit.
About 300 people incarcerated in Washington prisons say they identify as transgender, according to the Department of Corrections. In March, the Department of Justice announced similar investigations into the prisons and main in California. For NPR News, I'm Casey Martin and Seattle.
U.S. stock indexes fell today, this is NPR News. Health officials say they've issued quarantine orders for two passengers who were on the cruise ship at the center of a haunt of Irish outbreak who are now at a hospital in Nebraska. The passengers are among 18 aboard the cruise ship who are being assessed in a special unit at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha.
The CDC says the other 16 passengers who've been asked to stay at the facility through the end of May. A biotech company says it has taken a step towards bringing the DODO and another bird back from extinction and PR's Rob Stein reports. The Los Alpiosciences in Dallas says the company has created fully functional artificial
eggs that can just date bird embryos. So far, the company has used the eggs to hatch healthy chicken chicks. But Colossal says the advance demonstrates that the company's 3D printed plastic artificial eggs work. The company is now working on larger artificial eggs that could just date the DODO and
another flightless bird that disappeared hundreds of years ago called the Giant Moa. Colossal says scientists are still years away from recreating the extinct birds, but the companies also working on resurrecting other animals, including the Lily mammoth. Critics question whether it would be safe, ethical, or even possible to re-wake in extinct creatures, Rob Stein, and PR News.
Dennis Legend Billy Jean King celebrated earning a college degree after unrolling in 1961.
The 82-year-old is the first and her family to graduate.
She received a bachelor's in history from Cal State Los Angeles. She says she hopes to inspire others to continue learning. This is NPR News. This week on up first one trend, emerging this election season. President Trump actively opposing Republicans he sees as disloyal and endorsing their primary
challengers who've doubled in combats in multiple states. We're watching Keeprimearies on Tuesday in Kentucky and elsewhere to see if that narrative holds up. And what those races might tell us about November. Listen to up first every morning on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts.
