Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Libby Casey.
President Trump and his team had been teasing what they called a bombshell announcement
on election integrity.
“But as NPR's Miles Parks reports, Trump's speech to the nation last night provided no”
new evidence for the frog claims Trump has been making for years. "Last night's unveiling of newly declassified material, tracked with what was already known about the 2020 election. Take Trump's claims about China for instance. He described a sinister plot to interfere in the 2020 election, involving access to millions
of voter records. But it was known China favored Joe Biden as a candidate. And the data Trump is talking about is generally public record and widely available since David Becker of the Center for Election Innovation and Research. Having the voter data itself doesn't allow you to change anything.
I can have my kids class list, but that doesn't mean I can change the grades of everybody
in the class." Trump provided no new evidence for any fraudulent votes cast in American elections. Miles Parks and PR News Washington. The air quality is poor from the Dakotas into the Midwest and across the East Coast,
“wild virus milk from Canada is spiking pollution in the US to dangerous levels, and PR's”
Kristen Wright reports. Detroit, Chicago and New York are experiencing some of the worst air quality in the world, according to rankings by IQ Air, and meteorologists say it's among the worst in years. As of Pennsylvania hit code purple, which is worse than red, smoke from more than 800 wildfires burning in Canada is able to travel long distances, and the summer heat can make
the air quality even worse. Officials are advising people to stay indoors, especially older adults, children, and those with health issues. Kristen Wright and PR News, Washington. Hundreds of federal border security buoys are floating down the Rio Grande after being
swept away by flood waters near Eagle Pass, Texas. The loose buoys have prompted officials to close some international bridges in South Texas. Texas Public Radio's David Martin Davies has more. The Department of Homeland Security's River Buoys broke loose after massive rainfall infloded downstream.
“The city of Eagle Pass temporarily closed two international bridges to Mexico as the barriers”
passed through. Downstream in Loretto officials have activated the city's operations center, and crews are using drones to track to buoys. Officials say the drifting barriers could affect operations at the city's four international bridges.
The radio is one of the nation's busiest inland ports. DHS installed hundreds of miles of a floating border wall in the Rio Grande earlier this year to deter illegal immigration. For NPR News, I'm David Martin Davies and San Antonio. Federal health officials have identified letters grown in Mexico and served by Taco Bell
locations in five states as a source of the outbreak of cyclospora a diarrhea causing parasite. The CDC warrants against eating iceberg lettuce in Taco Bell in five states. It's NPR. A group of evangelical leaders is urging Congress to allow more than 300,000 Haitian refugees
to remain in the U.S. They're responding to a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that allows the Trump administration to end temporary protected status for Haitians as NPR's Jason DeRose reports. In a letter addressed to the House and Senate, the evangelical groups remind Congress that Haitians had been covered by TPS since 2010 after a devastating earthquake there.
They call on Congress to "exercise their power as a co-equal branch of government and past legislation that would allow the Haitian refugees to stay." The letter says it remains unsafe to return to the beleaguered island nation, which has been struck by one humanitarian crisis after another. Natural disasters, disease outbreaks, gang violence, and political upheaval.
Among those signing the letter, the president of the National Association of Evangelicals and the head of the National Hispanic Baptist Network. Jason DeRose and PR News Democrats hoping to replace Graham Plattener on Maine's ballot for U.S. Senate or scrambling to win over his supporters.
His replacement will be chosen in a little over a week at a Maine Democratic Party Convention.
First night a dozen candidates debated in Portland, Plattener dropped out of the race last
week after a sexual assault allegation, which he denies. A New York man faces hate crime charges after a confrontation with today show host Craig Melvin at NBC's studio in Manhattan. The man was arrested yesterday morning inside 30 Rockefeller Center, and B.C. News says he entered a restricted area near the today show studios and shouted a racial slur at Melvin.
It's NPR 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."
