Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor, Johnston.
President Trump used a rare prime time address from the White House last night to renew
his calls for tougher voting laws.
“He also used his speech to reiterate false claims about the 2020 election.”
His NPR's Tamry Keith reports, Trump offered no new evidence of widespread fraud. Trump has questioned the fairness of every election, going back at least to 2016. An election he won. In his speech, he talked a lot about vulnerabilities in the system, but didn't offer any proof they'd been exploited. In recent months, he has used every lever he can to push Congress to pass the Save America Act,
which would require proof of citizenship to register to vote. He tried again last night. Congress must pass the Save America Act.
It doesn't have the votes to pass in the Senate.
Tamry Keith and PR News. Federal regulators are investigating President Trump's long-time teleprompter operator over-suspected insider trading.
“NPR's Bobby Allen reports he's accused of using the betting site Kalshi to profit off”
the President's words. His name is Gabriel Perez. He's Trump's long-time teleprompter operator. Investigators say he made around $100,000 placing bets on what the President would say as he watched the prepared remarks roll across the screen. That's according to two people with knowledge of the investigation who weren't authorized
to speak publicly. On booming prediction market sites like Kalshi, betters can put money on what someone will or won't say, like whether Trump will say fake news or rigged election.
The case of Perez appears to be the first time a White House staffer has been implicated
in a prediction market scandal. White House press secretary Carolyn Levick all the incident, frankly, a disgrace, and said Perez is now on unpaid administrative leave.
“Bobby Allen and PR news, the removal of Ukraine's defense minister continues to draw”
protests across the country, and PR's joinicicist's reports his tenure came during a major shift in Ukraine's favor on the battlefield against Russia. New Hilo Fedorov, who's 35, had been in the defense job just six months, speaking to reporters Fedorov said he struggled to work with Ukraine's old-school military chief, Alexander Searski, Fedorov said Searski blocked attempts at innovation.
Instead of figuring out how to defeat Russia asymmetrically Fedorov said, the commander of Ukraine's forces has figured out how to divide the country. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky removed Fedorov from the post as part of a government reshuffle. The dismissal sparked demonstrations in Ukrainian cities, protesters demand that Fedorov be reinstated.
Joannica Kisses and PR news, Peev, stocks closed lower across Asia today on Wall Street down futures are down 374 points. This is NPR news in Washington. Smoke from wildfires in Canada and Northern Minnesota is covering a wide stretch of the United States today.
Air quality has fallen to unhealthy or hazardous levels from the Great Lakes to parts of the Northeast and East Coast. More rain is expected in Texas where days of downpours have triggered deadly flooding at least two people have died and more than 200 others have been rescued. Governor Greg Abbott says disaster declarations have been issued for at least 59 counties
in the state. A large group of prominent evangelical leaders is calling on Congress to allow more than 300,000 Haitian refugees to remain in the U.S. The move comes following the Supreme Court decision last month allowing the Trump administration to end temporary protected status for Haitians and PRs Jason Duros 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 Duros and PR News. I'm Mr. Johnston, and you're listening to NPR News from Washington.
So last time Antonio Maze Sr. heard from his son, it was in a note, the 16-year-old left in the family's garage, and Antonio Jr. left home to join a protest in Seattle. A week later, he was shot and killed there.
