Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Kristen Wright.
President Trump is issuing new threats against Iran.
“The President wrote on true social this morning that going forward any time Iran attacks”
a ship in the state of Hormuz, the U.S. military will bomb and destroy a bridge or a power plant in Iran, Trump says that includes those in or near, Iran. Arizona Republicans advanced allies of President Trump in the state's primary races yesterday. Ben Giles from Member Station KJZZ has more.
Far right candidates are sweeping statewide primaries. Congressman Andy Biggs is now the GOP nominee for governor here and state lawmaker Alexander Colodin won the GOP race for Secretary of State. They both crews to victory in the primary largely thanks to endorsements for Biggs from President Trump and for Colodin with the backing of turning point.
The political machine founded here in Arizona by the late Charlie Kirk.
The thing is Trump's endorsement and turning points backing isn't as meaningful in the
general election when these mega candidates have to appeal to a broader portion of the electorate. Ben Giles reporting there.
“The governor of New Jersey says a software error led to more than 6,000 non-citizens”
being registered to vote. NPR's Miles Parks reports the issue has been resolved, but such incidents have been shown to fuel conspiracy theories. The software error meant that thousands of people who answered no to the question are U.A. U.S. citizen at a DMV were still registered to vote anyway.
New Jersey's governor, Mikey Cheryl, called the problem serious, but she also said fewer than 400 of the mistake in registrants actually voted. And the erroneous registrations have now been removed as well. These sorts of bureaucratic errors aren't unheard of, Oregon dealt with a similar issue in 2024.
But non-citizens have never been shown to register on purpose in anything but very small
numbers. But still, experts expect these sorts of errors to be spotlighted by those looking to cast out on the entire election system this fall. Miles Parks and PR News, Washington.
“The Trump administration is pausing more than $1 billion in federal Medicaid payments to”
Minnesota and California over alleged fraud concerns. Federal officials say they'll withhold payments until the states verify that certain Medicaid claims meet federal requirements. Erika Zurich from Minnesota Public Radio reports. Minnesota officials say the $200 million federal officials are withholding makes this the
third time payments have been delayed over alleged fraud and health programs. In a written statement, Minnesota Department of Human Services, temporary commissioner John Connelly says federal officials haven't provided an explanation on how the deferral amount was calculated. The state says it has cooperated with the federal government to prevent the misuse of
health funds, California's governor Gavin Newsom posted on X that the state is being targeted for political reasons and not because of fraud. Friend PR News, I'm Erika Zurich in St. Paul. This is NPR News. Disability rights advocates are encouraged that attorneys general in more states are dropping
out of a federal lawsuit, challenging a cornerstone of civil rights law. Missouri is one of the latest states to withdraw. The suit argues the federal government doesn't have the authority to require states to help fund community supports and life in the community for people with disabilities instead of institutions.
17 states initially filed the lawsuit about five are still plaintiffs against the Department of Health and Human Services. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has formally approved a plan to stop collecting demographic data from employers since the 1960s the data has been used to help fight discrimination in the workplace as NPR's Andrea Shu reports.
The EEOC voted two to one along party lines to move forward with this major change. Once a year large employers must give the government information about the race and sex of their employees. But the agency's current chair Andrea Lucas says this reporting requirement imposes significant costs while offering limited enforcement value.
She also says it may promote rather than reduce discrimination. Meanwhile, the loan Democrat on the Commission, Copa Nocota Gals says ending the data collection will kneecap the agency's ability to investigate discrimination. Now the public has 30 days to weigh in, Andrea Shu and PR news. President Trump will travel to Dover Air Force Base today to attend the dignified transfer
of the remains of U.S. service members killed in Iranian strikes in recent days. This is 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."
