Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.
In New York, Luigi Mangione has pleaded guilty to federal stalking charges, connected to
“the death of United Healthcare CEO, Brian Thompson.”
Prosecutors say the 28-year-old tracked Thompson down, and shot him on a Manhattan sidewalk in 2024. He was charged by both federal and state prosecutors with ambushing the 50-year-old Thompson earlier this year, a judge struck down federal charges that could have brought the death penalty.
Mangione still faces murder charges in a state trial set to begin next month, but his legal team is now expected to argue for the judge to toss those charges given the federal guilty plea. President Trump's military campaign against Iran hasn't gone the way he promised it would.
The administration now says it's getting ready to wage economic warfare and ordinary
Iranians, say they will bear the brunt of that pain. If he was a deal-all-shall-cheek, he has more from Turkey.
“All Iranians and P.R. spoke to in Vaan agreed on one thing, their country has become”
expensive. A tray of 30 eggs is now $5, double what it was about a month ago, cooking oil is $3 for a 30-ounce bottle, that jumped about 30% in a month. A personal trainer who just arrived from Tehran said she can't afford much there anymore. She didn't want to be identified for fear of retribution from the regime.
She said that people in Tehran were tense and on edge because of uncertainty and the only hope for a future was to emigrate from Iran. Hadil al-shal-chi and P.R. news, Vaan Turkey. The new generation of small nuclear reactors could come online in the next few weeks. Companies successfully turned on four reactors this summer, but public opinion remains split.
And a Merzbach of the Mountain West News Bureau has more. A March Gallup poll shows 53% of Americans oppose having a local nuclear plant. Vicky O'Hara was not among them.
“She owns a bar in atomic city outside of Idaho National Lab, the center of U.S. nuclear”
research. I live 10 miles away and I'm fine, I'm not going in the dark, you know, there's nothing to be a scared of. But nuclear safety experts are worried the Trump administration's fast tracking of permits could lead to mistakes.
The administration sees nuclear power as one way to meet rising energy demand. While many Americans don't want to plant in their backyard, pulling also shows growing support for the U.S. emphasizing nuclear power more broadly. For MPR News, I'm Hannah Merzbach and Jackson Wyoming. The administration is trading lower this hour, the Dow is down 140 points, the Nasdaq
down 105 points, the S&P 500 is down 13. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to allow the White House to continue
construction on its $400 million ballroom project, while it appeals a lower court's order
to halt the work. A three judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled last week that President Trump has to stop the ballroom's construction, because Congress hasn't approved the project. The panel's majority says Trump doesn't have the unilateral authority to build a 90,000 square foot ballroom where the White House's east wing stood before he ordered its demolition
last fall. We had another summer surge of COVID-19 is underway around the country, that's according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And here's Rob Stein has more. COVID cases are increasing again nationwide, with the most activity in the South and West,
but also inching up in the northeast and Midwest. The good news is that the levels of virus are still very low, and so far, this year's wave seems to be continuing the trend of getting milder each summer, sending fewer people to the hospital and causing fewer deaths. But the virus is expected to continue increasing for weeks, so help that spurred rising
people to consider masking up if they're in crowded places like airports, and to get one of the updated vaccines when they become available in the fall, Rob Stein and Pyrenees. And I'm Janine Herbst, and you're listening to NPR News from Washington. Democrats are fighting for the future of their party. This week on the Empire Politics Podcast, we break down where the lines are being drawn between
centrists and progressives. Both sides have scored victories this primary season, and both are certain that they will be more electable in November. We'll catch you up on the key players and their pitches to voters.
