Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Kristen Wright.
The results of a new round of primary elections are giving shape to new party dynamics,
“left-wing anti-establishment candidates are ascendant in the Democratic Party.”
And as NPR's Tamar Keith reports, it's not just in Democratic-led states and safe districts any more. Michigan is the ultimate swing state, epidemiologist Abdul El-Sayed, won the state's Democratic Senate primary, even as he was outspent on air by tens of millions of dollars, backing the candidate favored by the Democratic Party establishment.
What we showed is that the power of our many is greater than the power of their money. He will face former Republican Congressman Mike Rogers in November. In the true toss-up seventh congressional district, outside or will Lawrence beat more moderate candidates in that primary.
And in Detroit, Democratic Socialist Donovan McKenney beat incumbent 3-Tanodar in
that safely blue district, Tamar Keith and PR News. The White House wants data from states on who's getting benefits from social safety net programs. NPR's Danielle Kurtzlebin reports the Trump administration is doing so under an anti-fraud task force led by Vice President Vance. At a White House round table today, Vance said he wants Congress to pass legislation
forcing states to give the federal government data on aid recipients. We need to know where your tax dollars are going, and if the State of California or the State of New York isn't going to tell us, we need Congress to force them to tell us.
“And I think that's the first and most important thing that we would like to do.”
This week, 24 states and the District of Columbia sued the Trump administration, seeking to block them from obtaining data on beneficiaries of the temporary assistance for needy families program. New York Attorney General LaTisha James said this week that she thinks the administration wants to use the data as "a tool for targeting the most vulnerable."
Danielle Kurtzlebin and PR News. Foreign ministers from Arab and Islamic states meeting in Jordan are warning that Israeli incursions into Muslim holy places in Jerusalem could spark global religious conflict than PR's Jada Raff reports. Statemen condemned incursions at the Al-Aqsa mosque by Israeli cabinet ministers and settlers
as well as restrictions on Christian sites. Israel's National Security Minister led followers and soldiers into the compound in July in the latest incursion.
“Temple Mount, which encompasses Al-Aqsa, is Judaism's Holy Sight.”
Israel reaffirmed in a 1994 peace treaty that Jordan's Hashemite rulers descendants of the Prophet Muhammad are custodians of Jerusalem's Muslim and Christian holy sites. The statement said the attack on Islamic holy places could ignite religious conflict, threatening international peace and security. Jane Arath and PR News beg dad.
You're listening to "NPR News" from Washington. A federal judge is allowing the Trump administration to officially move ahead with an order, sending temporary protected status for Haitians living in the U.S. Today's decision terminates deportation protections for about 350,000 people. Cases of the intestinal illness caused by the parasite cyclospora have now been reported
in almost every state, 47, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As NPR's Maria Gadoi reports, it is the biggest outbreak of cyclosporiasis on record. The CDC says 10,468 cases of cyclospora infection have been confirmed through laboratory testing since early May. That's a jump of more than 3,700 cases since last week.
The agency says it's aware of more than 12,000 additional cases nationwide that still have to be confirmed by labs. Officials in Missouri and Arkansas confirmed to NPR that their states have been added to a multi-state cluster of cyclosporiasis cases linked to contaminated iceberg lettuce from Taylor Farms.
The CDC says more than 500 people across the U.S. have been hospitalized and two people have died. Maria Gadoi and PR News. The Walt Disney Company reported better than expected results for the third quarter, thanks
to the billion dollar box office success of Tory Story 5.
Disney theme park attendance in the U.S. is also solid. A drifting piece of a SpaceX rocket slammed into the moon today. The collision left a big new crater. I'm Kristen Wright and PR News from Washington. This week on the NPR politics podcast, another progressive Democrat edges out an establishment
candidate. Abdul L. Sayed, one Michigan Senate primary campaigning on affordability, health care and ending U.S. military aid to Israel. Join us as we break down his victory and what it could signal for November's mid-terms. On the NPR politics podcast, listen on the NPR app or wherever you get podcasts.
