Live from NPR news in Washington, I'm Dave Madinglay.
There are election primaries today in Alaska, Florida, Wyoming, and a special election runoff
in California.
“As Katherine Welch reports, voters in Florida will be choosing candidates for Congress as”
well as the governor's mansion. Florida voters will pick candidates to replace term-limited Republican Governor Ron DeSantis. Republican Congressman Byron Donalds is the favorite in that crowded primary. While former Republican Congressman turned Democrat, David Jolly is one of six Democrats running and is leading in the polls.
Florida voters will also pick candidates seeking to serve out the rest of Marco Rubius term in the Senate after he was named Secretary of State. And voters will select candidates in all but one congressional district with most candidates running a newly redrawn district that favor Republicans. For MPR news, I'm Katherine Welch in Orlando.
In California, voters will be choosing a replacement for former Democratic Congressman Eric Swallwell. He resigned from the House several months ago and ended his bid for governor amid allegations
“of sexual assault, accusations he denies.”
Either state Senator Isha Wahab or Bay Area Rapid Transit Board President Melissa Hernandez will serve out the remainder of Swallwell's term in Congress. President Trump is offering more details on why he directed the Pentagon to scale back joint U.S. South Korean military exercises currently underway. Here's NPR's Tamar Keith.
Trump cited South Korea's unwillingness to get involved in the war with Iran and his own relationship with Kim Jong-un and explaining the decision to pull back on the exercises. "I'm making it much safer. You see, I'm actually making it much safer. Kim Jong-un
has always treated me with great respect."
Trump was answering questions in the Oval Office. "Why wasn't Kim Jong-un responded to your request to add a conversation?" "I didn't even know he was a rich man, has he?" "Yeah, he is." During his first term, Trump met with the North Korean leader three times.
Other presidents have sought to isolate Kim. Tamar Keith and PR news the White House. In New York, the state murder trial of Luigi Manjioni has been postponed indefinitely. It was slated to begin September 8th. Defense attorneys are seeking to have the state charges dismissed.
Now that Manjioni has pleaded guilty to federal charges of stalking and killing United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. He was shot to death outside a midtown Manhattan hotel in 2024. Manjioni's lawyers want the state case thrown out arguing legal double jeopardy. Economists will get their latest look at consumer spending in the U.S. when retailer Home
Depot reports its latest quarterly earnings today. This is NPR News. A federal judge is blocking plans by the Trump administration to move the FBI's headquarters to downtown Washington, saying the administration acted illegally when it scrapped plans approved by Congress to build the facility in the Maryland suburbs.
The Trump administration is appealing the decision of a federal judge in Tennessee to dismiss charges against Kilmar Abrago Garcia. Charges were brought against Abrago Garcia after he was wrongfully deported to El Salvador. Mariana Buckeau with member station WPLN has more from Nashville. Prosecutors charged Abrago Garcia with human smuggling based on a 2022 traffic stop in Tennessee.
A federal investigation into Abrago Garcia began two and a half years later after the Supreme Court ordered he be returned to the U.S. from El Salvador where he had been mistakenly deported. The court found issue with that delayed timing and dismissed the charges as vindictive. Now the Trump administration is appealing, arguing that the judge did not follow Supreme
Court precedent in his decision. At the same time, a judge in Maryland has ruled that the Trump administration cannot deport
Abrago Garcia to a third country until at least October.
For NPR news, I'm Mariana Buckeau in Nashville. The state of Florida has carried out more than half of the 22 executions of death row inmates in the U.S. so far this year. The state has another execution scheduled today. 61-year-old William Francis Silvia would be the 13th death row inmate put to death in Florida
since January. He was convicted of killing his estranged wife and wounding his mother-in-law. I'm Dave Madingley in Washington.
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