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Trump said should be Congress's top priority has failed in the Senate, Republicans
“tried to tack the bill onto an immigration funding package, as NPR's Miles Parks reports.”
The act would have required all new voters to show a document proving their U.S. citizenship, like a passport or a birth certificate, when they register to vote. It's already illegal for non-citizens to vote, and countless audits and investigations to found that non-citizen voting is not a major problem in American elections, but it's an issue President Trump has fixated on, and he threatened not to sign any other legislation
if the save act didn't pass. Still, it's been clear for months that there was not enough support in the Senate to pass it. Now, experts worry that if Republicans underperform in the mid-terms, Trump will use the failure as a reason to question an illegitimate seat of the results.
Miles Parks and PR News, Washington.
The House passed a bill tonight providing Ukraine with more than a billion dollars in
security and reconstruction aid, and making another $8 billion in loans available. The vote is a sign of impatience with President Trump's approach to the Russia Ukraine War. It's the House's second foreign policy break this week, with Trump, after approving a resolution to halt the U.S. war in Iran.
President Trump announced a $700 million investment in coal today. The Mountain West News Bureau's Hannah Merzbach reports. U.S. coal production has declined by more than half in the past two decades. Now, Trump says will extend the life of 13 coal plants nationwide, plus open to new ones, restart another, and open a terminal in Oakland, California.
That can export coal from western states such as Wyoming, whose governor Mark Gordon says that'll help access the Asian market.
“"So to be able to open the Oakland port is absolutely essential for the lifeblood of our state”
and for our coal lines." Supporters say Trump's latest coal investment will help keep electricity prices down, while the environmental defense funds says it'll do the opposite and increase pollution. It comes as the administration blocks further development of wind and solar. For MPR News, I'm Hannah Merzbach and Jackson Wyoming.
New York City officials say they're ready for World Cup soccer crowds later this month and appears Brian Mann reports. Governor Kathy Hockel says New York City's bus subway and trains system will boost service to move up to 100,000 extra people. Many going to the New York New Jersey Stadium where World Cup matches will take place.
Even local officials are also stepping up anti-terrorism measures. "So you'll see more of a police presence, but also know that behind the scenes that our cyber analysts and experts are focused on this with every fiber in their being." Mayor Zoran Bhamdani says there may be even bigger crowds if a World Cup soccer game falls on the same day as a possible Nick Spurs NBA finals home game.
“"This is a moment that we've been preparing for, we've been hoping for, and we still fully”
prepare for."
First World Cup match in the New York New Jersey area is June 13th, Brian Mann and PR News.
This is NPR. A new study finds that smoke from larger wildfires is reversing more than a decade of American improvements in smog. The study finds that between 2003 and 2015, the U.S. National average smog level dropped by 11 percent, but since 2015, it's increased by 4 percent, scientists fear that a dozen
years of progress will be wiped out in about 20 years as a warmer world makes larger wildfires. Ebola keeps spreading in East Central Africa as NPR's ping-hoong reports it'll take a lot to end the outbreak. The World Health Organization, Africa CDC and Governments in affected countries have made big improvements to testing and contact tracing.
But Jennifer Nuzzo, director of the pandemic center at Brown University, says U.S. leadership is missing.
"We have never seen a previous Ebola outbreak contained with the U.S. sitting on the
sidelines. If the goal is to make sure this isn't something that we have to worry about, we're not doing anything to hasten that." The U.S. sent more than $160 million in financial aid to the region, but it's taking a hands-off approach compared with past outbreaks.
Initial efforts focused on U.S. border restrictions. The CDC says it's helping with strategic and tactical assistance. Nuzzo says the cost and concerns of this outbreak will not end until it's contained at the source. Ping-hoong and PR news.
Construction crews were installing a fence near the North Dakota Governor's residence when they discovered human remains and coffin fragments. The North Dakota monitor reports the areas part of Bismarck's first cemetery. Though many of those burials were re-interred in the 1880s using ground penetrating radar archaeologists believe they have identified nine additional graves.
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