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New York City mayor, Zoran Mombani, went three for three in last night's Democratic
“primaries. Steve Kestonbound reports the outcome will move the New York Congressional”
delegation further to the left." "Mermombani flexed his muscles while stumping for his picks and it paid off in a big way. All three candidates he backed won their primary races. In one upset five term democratic congressman Adriano Esfiat went down in a narrow loss to Daria Liza Avila Chavaliar." "The day we make it clear. The politics of the past ends today."
Mombani's friend former New York Comptroller Brad Lander defeated incumbent representative Dan Goldman by a wide margin. With New York leaning heavily blue, it means more democratic socialists will likely head to Congress. For NPR News, I'm Steve Kestonbound in New York." Congress, on a bipartisan basis, approved a bill last night, designed to make housing more affordable. President Trump had been scheduled to sign the bill into law today. But hours
before the ceremony, the president said he will not sign the bill. That first Congress must pass the Save America Act. Legislation to impose new federal rules on elections that under the Constitution are run by the states. How speaker Mike Johnson wants Trump's bill to pass, but he says that's going to be a challenge in the Senate. "He's a laser focused on Save America Act as most common since Americans are. The only
path I think to get that done because you're never going to get seven Democrats to join
53 Republicans in the Senate to do that. They will not do it. Chuck Schumer will never
“vote for that or release any Democrat to do it. You have to put it on a reconciliation”
bill." Reconciliation allows Congress to pass legislation on some matters with only a majority vote to avoid a filibuster in the Senate. A washed dog group is calling for the state of New York to investigate crisis pregnancy centers, which are accuses of lying to potential patients, NPR's Salim Simmons-Duffin reports.
The campaign for accountability, a non-profit watchdog group, sent a letter this week to New York Attorney General Latisha James. Michelle Cooper Smith is the group's executive director. Crisis pregnancy centers appear to lie to potential clients about their ability to actually diagnose problematic pregnancy like a topic pregnancy is. For letter asks the AG's office to investigate instances of this in New York. Surprisingly,
a lawyer who represents crisis pregnancy centers agrees, in part, here's an O'Connor of the
“National Institute of Family and Life Advocates in a webinar last year.”
"Do not advertise we can rule out an exhibit because it is near and possible." The group did not respond to NPR's multiple requests for comment. Salina Simmons-Duffin and Pira News. "You're listening to NPR News in Washington." Secretary of State Marco Rubio is on a Middle East tour to meet with golf allies. He's
seeking to reassure them the U.S. will do nothing to undermine their security as it seeks an end to the war in Iran. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has ordered the tech giant to develop its own prediction market app, an attempt to compete with popular sites. NPR's Bobby Allen reports. Meta is developing an app where people can guess the outcome of things like elections or
the color of the president's tie on a given day. Internal Meta documents reviewed by NPR show the company as codename the project Arena. It's also being called Antwerp. One major difference from leading prediction market apps, though, is that Meta's app will only let users wager play money. Digital points on whether something will happen or not. CalShe and Polly Market have faced dozens of lawsuits over unregulated gambling, and whether these
apps represent a distinct kind of activity. Meta is the biggest tech company yet to jump into prediction market mania. Billions of dollars are traded every week on the apps, even as the industry remains in legal limbo. Bobby Allen and Pira News. President Trump is hosting a rally on the national mall in Washington tonight. It's being promoted as the kickoff to weeks of celebrations of the 250th anniversary of the signing
of the Declaration of Independence. There'll be military bands, a military flyover, an entertainment by singer Lee Greenwood. Other musicians had pulled out of the event, concerned that it had become politicized. The president said that he would be the headliner, calling himself the number one attraction anywhere in the world. I'm Nora Rom, NPR News in Washington. This is our glass. On this American life, when they mean like, it's a good mystery. Sometimes
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