Live from NPR News, I'm Jial Snyder, and his prime time speech Thursday eveni...
Trump raised claims that American voting systems are vulnerable, but he did not provide
evidence of widespread illegal voting.
“Trump has for years baselessly claimed the 2020 election was stolen from him.”
Here's in PR Shannon Bond reporting. President Trump says he's declassifying documents that he says reveal vulnerabilities in voting. Unfortunately, the system we have today falls catastrophically short. But in the speech, he did not detail allegations of widespread illegal votes.
Instead, he focused on claims, including that China accessed U.S. voter data, and that non-citizens are found on some state's voter roles. Some documents the White House posted during the speech did not appear to support the President's sweeping assertions. Trump has often spoken of election issues that fall apart under scrutiny.
Rumors reviews over the years have debunked his claims about the 2020 election. Shannon Bond and PR News spokesperson for the Chinese Embassy in Washington said China
has never and will never interfere in U.S. presidential elections.
“Trump's remarks about China come two months before leader Xi Jinping is due in Washington”
for a summit. President Trump delivered his speech amid heightened hostilities with Iran. The Iranian state television reporting at least seven people were killed as U.S. air strikes have expanded to target bridges. And PR's Franco-Rodonia's reports of war could affect voters' decisions in the fall
midterms. Foreign policy rarely dominates midterm elections. This year may be the exception. John McHenry, a Republican pollster with North Star opinion research, says exit polls, for example, are less likely to cite the war in Iran as a reason for people's vote.
And more likely to cite energy prices in the economy, which are driven by the war. Because gas prices have a ripple effect on everything. Prices, you know, in every retail shop at the grocery store go up because you know, a gallon
“of milk doesn't walk to the grocery store gets driven there by a truck.”
That could change if the war expands and, for example, President Trump commits troops to the conflict, which he's been reluctant to do. Franco. Now, two Texas, where Governor Greg Abbott confirms that at least two people have been killed in the flooding that's hit the state.
One is a male-near comfort, who was swept away and in RV. Another is a female in New Valley, who was swept away while driving on a road. But it says a heart is hit, areas are not yet out of danger, more rain is in the forecast.
And he says more than 2,000 first responders have been deployed, hundreds of people have
been rescued from their cars and homes. This is in PR news. Have he smoked from wildfires, darkening skies for the Midwest to the North East, prompting air quality warnings. The smoke is coming from fires that are burning mostly in Canada, but also in northern Minnesota.
Officials are urging vulnerable people to stay inside or wear masks when outside. People with high cholesterol will soon have a new medicine to help. The Food and Drug Administration just approved a new kind of cholesterol pill that's not a statin. If you're a Sydney Lupkin reports, statin pills like Crestor and Lipitora have been on the
market for decades and they can lower patients' bad cholesterol. Doctors have turned to newer medications called PCSK-9 inhibitors for patients who need more help lowering their cholesterol, but they're given by injections and their expensive. Merch's new drug is a PCSK-9 pill. It's called Lipitora.
In clinical studies it reduced bad cholesterol in patients who had an inherited form of very high cholesterol by nearly 60% after 24 weeks. The new pill will be available at a list price of $315 for a month's supply of pills, but most patients will pay a lower out of pocket price the company says. Ben Dress should be on pharmacy shelves in a few weeks.
Sydney Lupkin and PR News. Major financial markets in Asia are sinking in Friday trading shares in both Tokyo and Taiwan are down more than 5% amid heavy selling of computer chip makers and other stocks related to artificial intelligence. Oil prices are advancing as back and forth attacks between the U.S. and Iran intensify
Brent Crew trading near $85 a barrel. This is in PR News. The last time Antonio May's senior heard from his son, it was in a note, the 16-year-old left in the family's garage. "He told me he was going to make me cry."
Antonio Junior left home to join a protest in Seattle. A week later, he was shot and killed there. "I need some a ref me, just as for my son."
