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President Trump touted his tariffs in Michigan today,
“a state where they've affected many businesses.”
>> I placed historic tariffs on foreign produces and manufacturers, including a 25% tariffs on foreign automobile, something that no other president had occurred to ever do. >> Michigan's economy relies heavily on Canada and new tariffs, including on imported cars and auto parts creek concerns.
Trump's visit comes before Michigan's primary next week, and early voting is already underway. Democrats face another ideological battle between their progressive and moderate flanks in the Senate race. Congresswoman Haley Stevens is running against public health
official Abdul Elsaid, who's more left-leaning. Trump has endorsed former Congressman Mike Rogers in the Republican primary. Former FBI director Jim Komey is asking a judge to dismiss his indictment for posting a photo of sea shells
on a North Carolina beach, and Piers carry Johnson reports. >> Jim Komey says he thought shells that spelled out the numbers 8647 were clever political commentary.
“Using restaurants laying to express opposition”
to the 47th president Donald Trump. But the Justice Department turned Komey's Instagram post into a criminal prosecution, arguing the former FBI director made a serious threat against the president. In a new court filing, Komey's lawyer
said that defies common sense, and the first amendment.
Komey says he's being punished for criticizing Trump, and that forcing him to stay in trial will chill for his speech. The O.J. tried and failed to bring another criminal case against Komey last year. Kerry Johnson, in PR news, Washington.
>> A federal judge in Minnesota has frozen a new law in the state aimed at prediction markets, like calcium, polymarket, as Minnesota Public Radio's Dana Ferguson reports the laws, the first of its kind in the country. >> Judge Katherin Menendez blocked a law days away
from taking effect that would make it a felony to host or advertise a prediction market in Minnesota.
“The satellite people wager on everything,”
from sports to politics to celebrity weddings. State legislators passed the law this spring. Saying the markets could become addictive for young people, and raising concerns about insider trading. >> The commodity futures trading commission along
with calcium, polymarket sued, saying the federal government has the authority to regulate the markets, not states. Judge Menendez says the CFTC and markets proved they could face a reprobble harm from the law. She granted a preliminary injunction,
preventing enforcement while the case plays out. For NPR News, I'm Dana Ferguson in St. Paul. >> The College Football Players Association says Stanford
has become the first team to organize a player-led chapter
group was established five years ago. An advocates for unionization is could create momentum for bargaining over working conditions for student athletes. This is NPR. Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell's doctor says the former Republican
leader has not yet been cleared to leave a rehabilitation facility where he's undergoing physical therapy. The update comes shortly before Kentucky's annual fancier farm political picnic, which features speeches from politicians in which McConnell has attended for decades.
But he says he won't be able to attend this year. McConnell's 84 and was hospitalized more than a month ago due to a fall. A new survey finds three and four voters say the cost of child care is a major problem, NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports. >> For parents who pay for child care, more than a third say it's one
of their top two expenses. That's according to a poll commissioned by the first five years fund, which advocates for expanding early learning and care. Nearly half of parents say child care challenges affect their work, and it's not just them, nearly 40% of all voters say they're affected
when a college child care is disrupted. Nationally, there is a serious shortage of child care, and in many places it can cause more than housing or college tuition. A growing number of cities and states are committing money to expand, free and subsidized child care.
They say their local economies depend on it. Critics argue it drives up government spending. Jennifer Ludden and peer news, Washington.
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