Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Libby Casey.
President Trump visits Michigan today to tout his handling of the economy, he'll visit
“a General Motors facility in suburban Detroit on the heels of announcing new sweeping”
tariffs that impose double-digit levies on 60 trading partners and cover 99% of U.S. imports. There are now fewer than 100 days until the Congressional mid-term elections, NPR is more Elias and reports on where things stand for Democrats and Republicans. Dwayne majority in the House of Representatives Democrats need a net pick-up of three seats. Dwayne majority in the Senate Democrats need a net pick-up of four seats.
Republicans are facing strong headwinds, President Trump's approval rating is under 40%, voters are sour on the economy, and they blame the Iran War and Trump's tariffs for keeping prices high at the pump in the grocery store. But Republicans have some structural advantages, too. They've raised much more money than Democrats, and Republican gerrymanders have reduced the number
of competitive House districts to less than 20. Democrats have the advantage of enthusiasm. Democratic voters have been turning out in larger numbers than Republicans in primaries and special elections this year. Mar Elias and NPR News.
“Three people are dead and four injured after a mass shooting at a food festival in Seattle”
yesterday evening, police there say they have one person in custody and are searching for another possible suspect. Casey Martin from KU-O-W in Seattle. As of last night, another suspected shooter was still on the loose. Police said they were still figuring out what that person's involvement was.
Police said it appeared that two people were shooting at each other, but that's still being investigated. The shootings happened at one of the city's most popular tourist spots near the space needle as crowds gathered for the annual bite of Seattle food festival, a toddler is among the injured.
Eight years after groundbreaking, the gourdy-how international bridge between Detroit and Windsor in Ontario, Canada, is set to open today. As Alex McLennan of WDET reports, it comes amid political tension between Canada and the U.S.
“U.S. officials were not invited to a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the span held in Ontario.”
After Donald Trump placed 50 percent tariffs on Canada, still Canadian officials are highlighting
the gourdy-how bridge as a testament to the relationship between the two countries. Mark Wiseman is Canada's ambassador to the U.S. Where we stand today is truly one region. It is a place of two nations with a shared community. The new span will give drivers crossing the Detroit River and alternative to the existing
ambassador bridge, which has been the corridor's only option for commercial truck drivers for nearly a century. From PR News, I'm Alex McLennan in Detroit. Millions of Americans are under heated advisories and warnings today with the most severe temperatures expected in the Midwest and South.
This is NPR News in Washington. The Pentagon has changed how its reporting American Iran war deaths, making it more difficult to account for the war's toll. The four troops killed during recent renewed fighting between the U.S. and Iran, are no longer listed as part of the Iran-war death toll on a Pentagon website.
Instead, they've been placed in a new separate category called overseas operations. That means tallying or casualties requires looking at separate lists. The tour to France and in Sunday with a Slovenian cyclist taking home his fifth title in the famous race. The final stage of the race was shortened and PR's chandeliers' duster has more.
Tady Pogachar won his fifth tour of the France on Sunday, completing the race in just under 74 hours. He crossed the finish line of the final stage of the race just before 8 o'clock PM local time. Pogachar thanked his fans and supporters after the race.
He also said the win feels incredible.
The route for the tour to France's final stage was changed in shorten this year, security and police for the event were reassigned to assist with wildfires raging in the southwest portion of the country. Police duster and PR news shares of Chinese memory chipmaker CXMT sword in their Shanghai trading debut, making it the most valuable China-listed company its chips are used in
AI servers and consumer electronics such as smartphones. This is NPR news in Washington. On the streets of Denver, 19 disabled protesters black buses to demand accessible transportation. On the Sunday story, how an often forgotten group of activists in 1978 helped spark the modern day disability rights movement.
Listen now to the Sunday story from the Up First Podcast on the NPR app.
