"Lie," from MPR News, I'm Lakshmi saying.
President Trump is expected to address the nation tonight about what that is still
“not certain, but he suggested that elections and voting would be in the prime time speech,”
something that's historically been reserved for a significant moment for the country. As about the possibility, Trump will use the prime time address to once again assert the 2020 election he lost a president Joe Biden was rigged, Republican Senate Majority Leader John Foon of South Dakota says he's not looking back. "That election was a closed-issue back in 2020.
The election in 2026 gives us an opportunity to take a run at and to win one of those seats in Georgia. And we're into everything we can to do that. And so as I said before, I'm focused on 2026."
Georgia was a pivotal state in Trump's loss in 2020 and remained a point of contention
for the Republican leader after he was voted back into office. The ACLU has released a new study that documents widespread use of force among federal immigration officers and peers Meg Anderson reports recent fail shootings in Texas and Maine have brought renewed scrutiny. The ACLU analyzed 1,200 incidents involving ICE officers are law enforcement working
with ICE across eight states in 2025. Nearly a third of the immigration enforcement operations they studied involved the use of force, including hundreds in which officers used rubber bullets, tasers, and chemical irritants. Nareen Shah is one of the authors of the ACLU report.
“I think with use of force, you're seeing the threat of using force and actually using”
it become the default tool for immigration enforcement agents in a statement.
ICE told NPR it will not discuss law enforcement tactics, but that the agency is always
evaluating its procedures to keep its officers safe. Meg Anderson and PR news. Detroit Minneapolis, Boston, New York, in Washington, DC are among major cities in the U.S. under air quality alerts because of heavy smoke from wildfires in Canada. And PR is a burger says doctors are warning people to take the alerts seriously.
A combination of extreme heat and dry conditions in Ontario and northern Minnesota, led to raging wildfires. Then this week, weather patterns force the smoke into the Great Lakes region and down the east coast of the U.S., health experts warn wildfire smoke is dangerous. It's made up of tiny particles that can be inhaled deep into a person's lungs and even
enter the bloodstream.
“Here's how Dr. David Eisenman, a professor of medicine at UCLA, puts it.”
There are studies of show effects on the heart with increased heart attacks and heart failure. Strokes are associated with it, respiratory illnesses. Eisenman says, depending on air quality reports, reduce outdoor activity, use air filters, and wear an N95 mask, Ava Burger, and PR news. This is NPR.
Large parts of Texas are enduring severe floods from days of heavy rainfall. They prompted high water rescues and evacuations, officials have closed stretches of major roads, including highway 90 west of San Antonio to the Texas Mexico border in Del Rio. Forecasters say the storm systems also generated multiple tornadoes. One was reported yesterday in the San Antonio area that caused some widespread damage.
They're projected some areas could see an additional 10 to 15 inches of rain. Group of former meta employees is suing the parent company, a Facebook. The suit argues that it used artificial intelligence to make layoffs in ways of violated the law. And PR's John Ruitt reports meta says the claims lack merit.
The plaintiffs are a group of 26 unnamed former employees at meta. Their lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court in Oakland, California says meta used a quote, constellation of internal artificial intelligence systems to assess employees on a set of metrics that were then used to inform layoffs in May. The company cut about a tenth of its workforce.
The plaintiffs say the company did not take into account protected leave and approved absences like medical pregnancy or paternal leave. They argue in effect that the AI systems targeted them as underperformers. Meta says in a statement that claims lack merit and are not based in fact, it says workforce management and organizational decisions are made by people, not AI.
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