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President Trump is trying to sell Nevada and the nation on his economic agenda.
“At a stop in Las Vegas today, Trump touted his no taxes on tips policy, but as NPR's”
Deepa Shiveron reports, some workers say it isn't enough to combat lower tourism and higher prices from the Iran War. Mario Sondeval has been a server in Las Vegas for 40 years. He's a tip twerker, but he says his salary is way down compared to previous years, because fewer tourists are coming to the city.
They're not spending or eating like they used to anymore. The Las Vegas Convention in Visitors Authority says tourism dipped 7.5% in 2025. And that's a big hit for workers who rely on tourism and tips. Trump meanwhile continues to argue that his economy is doing great.
But a new Reuters Ipsos poll shows that for the first time in nearly a decade, more Americans
prefer Democrats on handling the economy instead of Republicans. Deepa Shiveron and Pure News Las Vegas. In Michigan, progressive, Abdul Al-Sayed has nearly won the state's highly watched Senate primary, defeating the more moderate Democrat representative Haley Stevens. It was the most expensive Senate primary ever.
“Haley took money from corporate interest groups, and the pro is real lobby A-PAC.”
Al-Sayed refused corporate pact donations and ran a grassroots campaign. Today he told NPR he's now turning his attention to the general election and Republican opponent Mike Rogers. What reunites us is way bigger than what divides us. We know that Trumpism has been just a colossal failure.
We know that the defeat Trumpism will have to defeat Trump's handpicked candidate for U.S. Senate. And we know that the responsibility we have to come to make sure that we're protecting people's health care, that we're standing up for clean air clean water, that we're fighting for affordability for working people, is way bigger than anything that divides us.
Stevens has endorsed Al-Sayed, the Senate seat is being vacated by retiring Democrat Gary Peters. Online prediction market, CalShee can no longer do business in the state of Utah. That's after a federal judge ruled that the company is not immune to the state's ban on gambling.
“Sean Hingens, with member station KUER, has more.”
Gambling and other games of chance are explicitly banned in the Utah Constitution, driven largely by the beliefs of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which is headquartered in the state. Earlier this year, state lawmakers added proposition bets, like the ones made on CalShee and other similar websites to the state's definition of gambling.
CalShee sued Utah in February over the law. It argued the state couldn't treat its sports futures contracts as bets because it operates as a federally registered exchange. The court disagreed. Utah Attorney General Derek Brown celebrated the outcome saying clever branding can't beat
state law. She says it plans to appeal. For NPR News, I'm Sean Hingens in Salt Lake City. This is NPR News. A California man who was arrested at President Trump's Los Angeles area golf course Sunday
was pretending to be part of the security detail preparing for Trump's visit and had a stash of illegal weapons in his car and home, Janine Jantale faces both state and federal charges. The Vatican has announced that, hopefully, the 14th will visit South America later this year.
NPR's Jason D'Rose reports that, as part of the visit, he'll return to a country he knows well. POPLEO plans to visit three countries in November, Oregon, Argentina, and Peru. The visit to Peru will be something of a homecoming for the Pondiff. He first arrived in the country as a missionary in the 1980s and later served as a bishop
there. In fact, he holds both Peruvian and U.S. citizenship. He goes visit to Argentina may prove bitter sweet for Catholics there.
His predecessor, Pope Francis, was from Buenos Aires, but never visited the country during
his 12-year papacy. The visit to Uruguay is meant to promote evangelization there, or only about 40 percent of the population is Catholic. Jason D'Rose and PR News The Ohio Childhood Home of Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong is up for sale.
Armstrong built model planes there and took his first flying lessons nearby. It's been owned by a retired history teacher for nearly 40 years. She hopes a new buyer will donate it to the Armstrong Museum. The house has been preserved with memorabilia, such as autographed photos, but is not legally protected from changes, so its future is up in the air.
Armstrong was the first person to walk on the moon in 1969. He died in 2012 at the age of 82. You're listening to NPR News The midterms are coming and that means the new cycle, which is already intense, is about to get more intense this fall.
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