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by President Trump has failed in the Senate, and PR's Miles Parks says GOP lawmakers
“tried to attack the Save America Act to an immigration funding package.”
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-sitizens to vote, and countless audits and investigations have found that non-sitizen 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 midterms, Trump will use the failure as a reason to question the legitimacy of the results.
Miles Parks and PR News, Washington The House has approved billions of dollars in additional U.S. aid to Ukraine, along with more sanctions on Russia. The vote was 226-195.
“President Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson oppose the spending package.”
A team Republicans joined Democrats in the House to win passage. That legislation includes sanctions on Russian banks and oil companies, and now heads to the Senate where passage is uncertain. Ukraine's president, the load-emirs of landscape, as he wants face-to-face negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin, about ending the war.
And PR's Joanna Kekissis says Zelensky asked for the meeting in an open letter to Putin.
The letter is the first public message Zelensky has written directly to Putin since Russia's
full-scale invasion in February 2022. The Ukrainian leader said Russia has been at war with Ukraine for roughly half of Putin's 26 years in power. This timeline includes Russian forces, seizing parts of Eastern Ukraine in 2014. You can stop your war, Zelensky wrote to Putin.
Zelensky also seemed to note that Ukraine is no longer a priority for the U.S. as the
“Trump administration remains focused on Iran.”
The Kremlin acknowledged receiving the letter and said Zelensky is welcome to visit Moscow at any time, Joanna Kekissis and PR news. President Trump's one-time national security adviser, John Bolton, has reached a plea deal with prosecutors over his mishandling of classified documents, that's according to a source familiar with the matter.
Under the tentative deal, Bolton would plead guilty to one count of retaining classified information and pay a fine. He could also face up to five years in prison. The Justice Department brought the case against Bolton last October. The latest numbers on employment in the U.S. are due out later this morning from the
labor department. This is NPR News from Washington.
A company that manufactures firefighting foam has agreed to a $10 million settlement with
the State of Wisconsin. The state says Taiko fire products was responsible for decades of water contamination in Northeastern, Wisconsin because of PFAS chemicals contained in the foam used at a firefighting training center. PFAS are also known as forever chemicals.
Taiko is a subsidiary of Johnson Controls. A new poll from NPR and Ipsos finds teachers across the U.S. are concerned about how artificial intelligence will affect students as AI plays a larger role in the classroom. Lee Gaines reports. Nearly three and four educators say they believe AI has bigger implications for education
than past technological innovations like the Internet or computers. Mallory Nual is a senior vice president with Ipsos. We're in an environment where teachers feel like this is going to fundamentally reshape the future of education moving forward. The poll shows students aren't widely using AI in the classroom, at least not yet.
Meanwhile, a majority of teachers say they've used AI to help with their own work tasks.
But more than half say AI makes it harder for students to learn critical thinking skills.
And the majority also think AI is mostly just a shortcut for students to avoid doing more work. For NPR news, I'm Lee Gaines. The NHL's Stanley Cup final is tied at one game of peace after the Carolina Hurricanes beat Las Vegas last night, four to three, and over time.
I'm Dave Maddingley in Washington. This week on Consider This, the drama at CBS News, some of the most respected journalists in America say their corporate ownership is bowing to political pressure. It's intimidation. They've created a climate of fear to make the news organization unwilling to tackle the
problem and report to news. Law times 60 minutes correspond at Steve Croft this week on Consider This.
