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Despite promising major revelations about election security in last night's prime time
“address, President Trump repeated unfounded claims about election interference.”
Documents provided by the White House did not back up his assertions that the election system is "broken." And Pierre's Franco Ordonias says Trump used a high profile perch to steer the political conversation. This speech may also be about redefining the terms of the debate going into the mid-terms.
I mean, voters are very concerned about the economy and Iran, and that's been hurting Trump politically. But election security is something that has energized Trump supporters in the past, so even though many of these claims have already been debunked, Democrats actually risk being drawn into a prolonged back and forth with Republicans on proposals that they think are popular.
Instead of spending that time talking about the economy. Democrats reacted to Trump's speech by warning that he could use his claims to curb voting rights and cast out on the midterm elections. President Trump's social media company is planning to sell faster access to the President's posts.
“As NPR's Bobby Allen reports, the service is being offered to banks and Wall Street trading”
firms. The company that runs Trump's true social platform is offering to give customers faster access to the president's often long and rambling social media posts. At times, Trump makes major announcements about policy or foreign affairs from his true social account, whether about tariffs or the war in Iran.
Those posts can move financial markets. And now for a fee reportedly up to $100,000, customers can access these updates faster than the general public. Critics of the licensing fee for presidential announcements say it's an abuse of government power.
That would allow Wall Street investors to profit from White House developments, potentially at the expense of American citizens.
At the expense of government ethics, the disclosure show Trump earned more than $2 billion
in his first year back in office, Bobby Allen and PR news.
“Taylor Farms, one of the largest suppliers of salad in the U.S., announced it is recalling”
all iceberg lettuce sourced from central Mexico. And PR's Alison Aubrey reports the product is linked to cyclosporicases in five states. The FDA's trace back investigation identified a single supplier of iceberg lettuce from Mexico is the potential source of thousands of cyclosporicases in Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and West Virginia.
Taylor Farms confirmed it is removing all iceberg lettuce sourced from central Mexico. The company says no Taylor Farms branded salads or kits that you can buy in the grocery store are associated with this outbreak. Federal health officials say more than 1,600 people infected with cyclosporic reported eating Taco Bell in the five states.
And in Michigan, investigators interviewed nearly 200 people who had gotten sick after eating at Taco Bell, and 90% said they'd eaten iceberg lettuce as part of their meal. The move follows Taco Bell's announcement to voluntarily remove potentially affected lettuce. Alison Aubrey and PR news. This is NPR.
The Beijing-based company Moonshot unveiled a new AI model today called Kimi K-3 that it says can compete with anthropics, Claude, and Open AI's Chatchy PT. It's the latest from Chinese startups using Open Source AI technology to release increasingly
powerful models at sharply lower costs than Silicon Valley.
In air quality, help alert as an effect ahead of this weekend's World Cup final, and PR's William Jones reports. With a thick haze blanketing, the New York Region officials have been urging residents to stay indoors if they can. That didn't stop the Spanish team from training outdoors on Thursday.
They'll play Argentina on Sunday afternoon at the New York New Jersey Stadium. Which is an open air facility. The poor air quality, which is caused by Canadian wildfire smoke sweeping south, has already had an impact on other games in New York this week. A record crowd watched Gotham FC play Washington spirit in the National Women's Soccer League
despite the orange haze players took two breaks each half because of the air quality index. Some rain, however, is forecasted, which could help to spur some of the smoke ahead of the World Cup final on Sunday. The World Cup has meant big business for beer and breweries in the U.S., bars in Boston reported needing emergency deliveries to keep taps from running dry on some game days.
FIFA says fans down to total of 290,000 stadium beers during the six matches in Philadelphia. This comes as beer sales in the U.S. have been struggling for about a decade as consumers cut back for health reasons. This is NPR News. In the latest NPR politics podcast, we separate fact from fiction in President Trump's prime
time address on election security. Two things can be true at the same time. We have ignored vulnerabilities in our voting system for a long time, and there is no evidence that the election was rigged in 2020. The truth and the politics behind President Trump's claims about voter fraud, on the latest
