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President Trump is doubling down on his effort to overhaul elections.
“NPR's Franco Ordoni as reports, the latest push comes as the Supreme Court rules that”
mail-in ballots can be counted after election day. President Trump has long sought to crack down on mail-in voting. He took to social media soon after the ruling, calling it a tremendous loss. Any argue that it was even more reason for members of Congress to pass his election legislation, which limits mail-in ballots and requires proof of citizenship for voting.
He wrote, quote, "There is only one reason to oppose," cheating. The fight over the election legislation has deepened cracks between Trump and Republican leaders in the Senate, who have tried to explain to the president that they simply don't have the votes to pass the legislation, and that the fight is also hurting Republicans as they look to turn the focus to the economy ahead of the midterm elections, Franco.
Ordoni has NPR News, the White House.
It's been five days since two powerful earthquake struck Venezuela.
Roiders New Service, recording a group of rescuers and hardheads and face masks, periodically raising their arms. Signaling for quiet, as they apparently try to listen for voices of survivors who may still be trapped in the rubble, the official death toll is nearing 1,500,000 more people are still unaccounted for, and Piers A to Peralta's in Karakas.
What I saw was just a couple of dozen family members climbing through the rubble, and they were just picking random places to dig, and then at times the smell of death would get stronger, and they would dig faster, and I mean, look, there are helicopters in the air, and there's back holes, and the Venezuelan government has deployed the military and the police, and a bunch of foreign countries have sent rescue crews here, but there's just
not enough of them. NPR is at a Peralta reporting. Nearly a year to the day since it opened, the Immigration Detention Center in the Florida Everglades is empty.
“Remember, station W.U.S.F. here is Megan Bowman.”
Center for Biological Diversity Attorney Elise Bennett says her biggest concern is the detention center Florida officials nicknamed "Alligator Alcatraz" could reopen. "There's a lot of work that needs to be done, not just to undo the harm, that's already been done at the site at a facility, but to figure out how to make sure nothing like this." No kind of development or intensification of the site can ever happen again.
Ben, it says they want assurances the site is shutting down for good. A public evaluation of all the harm cost, and any damage, is cleaned up and paid for. Governor Ron DeSantis says it was a good use of the state's resources.
He's always maintained this was a temporary solution, and says it will be taken down over the next
two weeks. For NPR News, I'm Megan Bowman in Tampa. It's NPR. This hour, global oil prices are hovering around $71 a barrel, they're at pre or levels, but have been climbing as traders watch to see if the latest pause in fighting between the U.S.
and Iran holds. U.S. Central Command had said fighter jets attacked 10 Iranian military targets in retaliation for a strike on a commercial vessel in the state of Hormuz. "Open AI is restricting the release of its new artificial intelligence model as a Trump administration works to screen AI products for cybersecurity threats." Rival and Thropic has also said the administration approved a limited release of its cybersecurity model.
Hollywood is in the middle of a hot streak, NPR's Bob Mandelo has details.
This summer always looked promising with toy story five and devil wears proud of two on the menu.
"Open, that's not what you're wearing to the dinner. That's all." But no one expected low budget horror flicks, obsession, and backgrounds, and the Michael Jackson biopic Michael to contribute to another 600 million.
“"I believe music could change the world."”
This year is currently running about even with 2019 when Avengers' in-game was supercharging ticket sales, still to come this summer, Spider-Man, brand new day, Christopher Nolan's the Odyssey and Minions and Monsters, which has some observers for the North American box office will top 10 billion dollars this year, one caveat in dollar terms that's a return to pre-pandemic levels, but ticket prices have risen so it's still fewer people.
Bob Mandelo and PR news. "U.S. stocks trading higher the sour, I'm Lakshmi Singh, NPR News." One of the world's most famous art detectives was on the hunt for a stolen Van Gogh. He turned to an unlikely source for help. "You have born stuck a place, born teachers, born policemen, I'm a born burglar."
On the Sunday story, how an art thief and an art detective set out to recover a missing masterpiece. Listen now to the Sunday story from the up-first podcast on the MPR app.
