"Li from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh.
President Trump is holding a cabinet meeting at Camp David in Maryland this hour. He is defending his domestic agenda of tariffs, addressing high health care costs and investment initiatives, all of which he says benefit U.S. workers. The secretaries of state and defense who've helped the President's spearhead the U.S. war with Iran are sitting on either side of Trump.
The Republican leader is also defending his hard-line immigration enforcement campaign, citing the massive migration currently confronting Spain. "That's going to be a talking point for the victims, because when you look at what happened to Spain, they don't know what to do and it's happening again today, they're coming in by the thousands of thousands, it's just invading the country."
About 60,000 migrants have crossed into the tiny Spanish territory if they would up from Morocco over the last 24 hours, according to local authorities. Spain blames human smugglers for fueling a migration crisis. There is no immediate response from the Moroccan government on the latest figures released by Spanish authorities.
Michigan's primaries Tuesday, Congresswoman Haley Stevens and former public health official Abdul El Said are in a fierce battle for the Democratic Senate nomination mirroring national divisions in the party, and PRSAM Greenglass spoke to voters in suburban Detroit. Air Force veteran Joel Rutherford worries the primary is tearing Democrats apart.
“"You have candidates that are very different, and I think what happens is this passion”
has just become so big." Rutherford is supporting El Sayed, and thinks about his choice this way. "We're not going to get everything we want, but we have to at least try." The pro-Israel Lobbing Group A pack is also spending millions to boost Stevens and oppose El Sayed, who supports ending military aid Israel and has made calling out corporate
money and politics a key message. Alan Wolff says he believes Stevens is the one who can beat Republican Mike Rogers this fall. "You cannot win in Michigan without being able to sway independence. Haley is a fairly middle of the road candidate who can actually do that."
Ambringglass and PR News met her Detroit.
"The long legal battle to erase the deaths of nearly half a million federal student loan
borrowers is coming to an end, or from NPR's Corey Turner." The class section suit centered on a federal rule known as borrowed defense. The rule allows borrowers to ask the U.S. education department to erase their debts if a school ripped them off by lying about things like job prospects or salary after graduation. Advocates filed the suit in 2019 when the first Trump administration delayed discharging loans
for defrauded borrowers. In 2022, the Biden administration settled, but the current Trump administration asked the courts for a delay making good on that settlement. That's NPR's Corey Turner reporting. The Dow is up more than 100 points.
This is NPR News. Elon Musk's company XAI is suing the state of Minnesota over a law that prohibits technology that new defies someone without their consent, that's to say it generates a realistic image of them. Even though the photo is fake, Minnesota Public Radio is Dana Ferguson reports.
The law would let those portrayed in AI deepfakes sue the companies that generated them.
And the state could find the companies half a million dollars for each illegal use.
“The state's editor Aaron Mayquid says it's important to stop AI platforms from creating”
the images before they can be shared. This technology will be illegal in Minnesota and the big-tap corporations that profit off of image-based sexual abuse will be held accountable. XAI is suing to stop the law from taking effect on Saturday. It argues the law is unconstitutional and overly broad, forcing the company to limit functions
on its tool, grog. The state says it will defend the law. For MPR news, I'm Dana Ferguson in St. Paul. The busy summer travel season could be disrupted this weekend for many Canadian and American travelers.
Dan Carpenter tells us the flight attendant's union at Canada's second largest airline
filed a 72-hour strike notice. The Canadian Union of Public Employees, which represents West Jets 4400 flight attendants, says the recent vote was 99% in favor of a strike. At the heart of the dispute, wages and unpaid work that the union says takes place before and after a flight.
West Jets operates more than 600 flights a day. Many travelers are already trying to make alternate arrangements for MPR news. I'm Dan Carpenter in Toronto. It's NPR. This week on sources and methods, missiles cost money and the Pentagon is running low on both.
One of the concerns for the Middle East, Qatar, and Kuwait, and other locations may be
“Saudi, is are there enough patriot missiles to go around to protect their bases?”
The state of the US arsenal this week on sources and methods, the National Security
