Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Levy Casey.
President Trump will deliver a prime time address tonight from the Oval Office and
“PR's Danielle Kurtz-Lavin says press secretary Caroline Levitt previewed tonight's speech.”
Levitt told reporters today that this will be about election integrity, this being a White House that talks a lot about voter fraud, and to be clear, there is no evidence of fraud on a widespread basis. Now, today at the White House press briefing, Levitt said Trump would be presenting some sort of findings tonight.
She didn't say what the Levitt repeatedly caution reporters that they don't know what he's going to say, and so they shouldn't prejudge the speech. Levitt told reporters that it's very possible that Trump will talk about Iran and the economy. The White House has pushed networks to air tonight's 9 p.m. speech, NBC and ABC will not run it on their primary broadcast channels.
The White House says vehicle stops by ICE will continue after two deadly shootings by officers
in a week, both during traffic stops.
The comment came after widespread reports that the agency would pause those stops as NPR's Cat Lonstor reports. Within hours of those reports, President Trump posted on social media that the vehicle stops must continue.
“"We cannot give up one of ICE's most important and effective crime-fighting tools," he wrote.”
The Office of Senator Angus King, an independent from Maine, had confirmed NPR on Tuesday that the Department of Homeland Security had planned to make the policy shift. But at a press briefing, White House press secretary Caroline Levitt told reporters that immigration enforcement agents are continuing with traffic stops, and that guidance had been given to all field offices in the country.
She said the White House and DHS are "on the same page." NPR reached out to DHS for clarity on the policy, it referred us to recent comments from the White House. Cat Lonstor, NPR News, Washington. Oil prices are rising again with renewed strikes in Iran, and PR's Julia Simon reports,
some U.S. lawmakers want to tax the oil company's profits. Sheldon White House, Democratic Senator from the state of Rhode Island, proposed the windfall oil-profit tax bill earlier this year. Here's how he says it would work. You look at the average price of a barrel of oil before the war.
“You compare that to the price spikes today.”
You look at the resulting profits. And then you split the difference. They're actually somewhat generous about letting him keep half of the excess profits. The government would distribute the money to lower income Americans in the form of tax rebates.
About a dozen senators have signed on to the bill, they goil companies are expected to announce
higher second-quarter profits next week, Julia Simon and PR News.
The Food and Drug Administration has approved a first of its kind pill that can drastically reduce cholesterol levels. The pill from Mark is the first non-injectable option for blocking a liver protein that interferes with the body's ability to clear cholesterol from the blood. It was approved today for patients with artery clogging cholesterol that persists, even after
taking statins, the standard medications for cutting heart attack risk. This is NPR News, live in Washington. Texas Governor Greg Abbott says the death toll from floods in the South Central part of the state now stands at two. Authorities have rescued dozens of stranded drivers and people trapped in homes.
The Governor has issued disaster declarations for dozens of counties. The National Weather Service says a deadly flood wave is barreling down the Guadalupe River. The region is still recovering from devastating floods a year ago when 25 children, two counselors and the camp owner died at Camp Mystic last July.
A team of scientists has found a kind of sugar in the center of our galaxy. The discovery may have implications for how life began. Here's NPR's Ari Daniel. To look for clues about where the ingredients of life came from, researchers pointed two telescopes at the space between the stars of the Milky Way.
This interstellar medium is a chemical factory that produces a range of organic molecules, including the scientists just announced a four-carbon sugar. Astrophysicist Ithasku and himena Cera at the Center for Astrobiology says the discovery was thrilling. "They were hard, that's beating, that's super fast, you can let's do it excited."
The results suggest that sugars may have been incorporated into asteroids as they coalesced in the interstellar medium. Such a space rock could have then struck the early Earth, sweetening the stage for the emergence of life here. Ari Daniel NPR News
Former President Joe Biden's memoir, "Promise me, America will publish this fall just two weeks after the mid-term elections. Publisher Little Brown and Company says it does cover President Biden's decision to drop out of the 2024 election." This week on the MPR Politics podcast, President Trump, "It is the greatest threat
to our country." "It's trying to tie Democrats to communism," "including World War II or even 9/11." Both he and his team feel this is resonating with his base. Why the White House is pushing communism as a new line of attack ahead of this year's
Mid-terms?
Listen now on the MPR Politics podcast.
