Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Lebie Casey.
The results of recent primary elections are giving shape to new party dynamics.
“Further left, anti-establishment candidates are assentant in the Democratic Party.”
And as NPR's Tamera Keith reports, it's not just in Democratic-led states and safe districts anymore. 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 Socialists, Donovan McKenney, beat incumbent Sri Tannadar in
that safely blue district, Tamera Keith and PR News. About 350,000 Haitians living in the U.S. have officially been stripped of their temporary legal status, and as of today, are vulnerable to detention and deportation.
“As NPR's Adrian Florito reports, this comes weeks after the Supreme Court sided with President”
Trump in a dispute over the temporary protected status program. EPS allows people from certain countries to live and work in the U.S. because of dangerous conditions in their home countries. People from Haiti have benefited from TPS since 2010. The President Trump moved to terminate their temporary status, and in June, the Supreme
Court said he could do so, that ruling has now taken effect. Haitians now face being deported to a country that even the Trump administration acknowledges is very dangerous. From gangs control much of Haiti, many of the 350,000 Haitians affected have U.S. born children. The administration is urging Haitians to self-deport and warning that it will come for them
if they don't. Adrian Florito and PR News. The White House wants data from states on who is getting benefits from social safety net programs. NPR's Danielle Kurt Sleepen reports, the Trump administration is doing so under an anti-fraud
task force led by Vice President Vance. After White House roundtable 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 quote, "a tool for targeting the most vulnerable."
Danielle Kurt Sleepen and PR News. You're listening to NPR News Live in Washington. New Mexico is suing the Justice Department and acting attorney general Todd Blanch, saying the federal government has blocked it from carrying out its own investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's Sex Crimes.
The lawsuit was filed in federal court today. New Mexico claims that the Justice Department and Blanch have actively harmed victims and undermined public interest by withholding information from state investigators. The Justice Department says it withheld some information to protect victims' privacy. Part of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket crashed into the moon earlier today, as Joe Palca reports
NASA estimated the impact would create a crater 60 feet across and 12 feet deep. The Falcon 9 rocket left Earth in January of this year. It was carrying Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost 1 lunar lander.
The rocket's upper stage wasn't intended to hit the moon, but it seems SpaceX never
commanded it to maneuver so it would definitely miss the moon. The approximately 10,000 pound upper stage struck the moon traveling at more than 5,000 miles per hour. According to NASA, media roads with similar energy hit the moon every six days or so. Nature astronomer Bill Gray is credited with predicting the impact would occur using
publicly available data. It will likely be days before telescopes on Earth and in orbit around the moon are able to confirm the size of the impact crater. For NPR News, I'm Joe Palca. Firefighters in Washington State have taken advantage of cooler weather to begin getting a
handle on wildfires that have displaced tens of thousands of people around Spokane, but hotter, drier and windier days are in the forecast. This is NPR News. This week on the NPR Politics Podcast, another progressive Democrat, Edges out and Establishment Candidate, a dual LCA Ed, 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 midterms on the NPR Politics Podcast.
