"Life from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor, Johnston, a bill that would p...
Department of Homeland Security within additional $70 billion for immigration enforcement is heading to the House after passing the Senate. NPR Sam Greenglass reports Democrats oppose the measure, but it also exposed divisions among some Republicans."
"There's always been this small camp of Republicans willing to criticize the president.
“What I think this blow-up did is reveal maybe more widespread frustrations below the”
surface. And it also tested how far those frustrated members are actually willing to go to push back. These tensions were already simmering as Trump started endorsing primary opponents to incumbent members of his own party this spring, but the thought of taxpayers possibly compensating January six rioters may have been a breaking point for a broader swath of lawmakers who lived through that day."
NPR Sam Greenglass reporting The prediction market companies, polymarket and calcium, are spending millions of dollars on influencers to promote the sites on social media, but as NPR's Bobby Allen reports, some of the creators are spreading misinformation about elections. Polymarket and calcium are paying influencers up to $500 per post to spread the word about
prediction markets, where people can bet on everything from the color of President Trump's tie to war to election outcomes.
“In recent weeks, some of those paid influencers have been spreading fabrications about”
the Los Angeles Mayor's race, claiming without evidence that the process has been beset with fraud. After NPR pointed this out to calcium, the company asked influencers to take down posts.
Polymarket never responded to a request for comment.
His information experts say it's a preview of what's to come ahead of the mid-terms. If you're also persist about the markets themselves, which can be manipulated by bad actors or better's aligned with one candidate, Bobby Allen and PR news. More Ukrainian drones attack targets in Russia's former capital, St. Petersburg overnight. The strikes were the second this week and appeared time to an economic forum headed
by Russian President Vladimir Putin, and PR's Charles Mains reports from St. Petersburg. The extent of the damage from the attack was not immediately clear, but authorities said air defenses had intercepted over 140 Ukrainian drones in all.
“The situation prompted the region's governor to instruct city residents to stay in their homes.”
The authorities' throttle mobile internet service thought to help guide the drones to their targets.
The attack came on the final day of the International Economic Forum, event used by Russian
President Vladimir Putin to project Russian economic and political might. And public remarks Friday, Putin dismissed an offer by his Ukrainian counterpart Vladimir Zelensky to hold face-to-face peace talks and said Russia would need its military objectives. Charles Mains and PR news, St. Petersburg. This is NPR News in Washington.
The Democratic Republic of Congo is reporting more than 70 new confirmed Ebola cases, increasing the total number to just over 450. Michael Coloki reports the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warns the outbreak it could become the largest on record. "Comboliz authorities said the new cases were in the country's Ituriy and North Kifu provinces,
with officials warning that the latest figures demonstrated, quote, "rapid and continuous community transmission. Meanwhile, the CDC cautioned that without large scale and sustained public health interventions, this Ebola outbreak in DRC and Uganda could surpass the outbreak that started in West Africa in 2014. Earlier, the World Food Program said that unless they are enhanced response measures to the
outbreak in Congo, the country's health and food crisis could worsen. For NPR News, I'm Michael Coloki in Nairobi." A federal judge had struck down the Trump administration policy that restricted immigration benefits for people from dozens of countries. The policy was enacted after last year's shooting of two national guard members.
The judge said the policy left immigrants in legal limbo and accused immigration officials of disregarding federal law. The restrictions affected people from at nearly 40 countries and blocked final decisions on applications, including asylum, work permits, and green cards. I'm Windsor Johnston and PR News in Washington.
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