Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.
President Trump's super PAC is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars in the final
“hours before the polls close in South Carolina to support darling Graham for Senate.”
As impure's Tamarquete reports, Trump endorsed Graham the sister of the late Senator Lindsey Graham.
"Magga Inc. is sitting on more than $400 million in campaign cash, but hasn't been spending
it. Super PAC is injecting $827,000 in last-minute assistance to darling Graham for get-out the vote phone calls and text messages. Trump also held a rally for Graham last Friday begging South Carolinians to get out and vote for her in what is expected to be a low turnout-special primary runoff against Republican
Congressman Ralph Norman." "What I really want you to do is pretend please that I'm on the ballot, just come and vote it's so important." The power of Trump's endorsement is also on the line, Tamarquete and P.R. News. President Trump's threats of an economic "D" day on Iran became warnings for countries
to sever financial ties with Tehran, as he tries to find an off-ramp to the U.S. Israeli war that's known at six months. Treasury Secretary Scott Besant told countries they could face sanctions if they don't. William Subin worked in the George W. Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations is now a professor with Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced Studies.
The whole game here is how can the U.S. get third countries to constrain their ties with
“Iran, whether that's China or places like Turkey, places like India?”
Secretary Besant talked about a quiet outreach campaign with people from Treasury and state going out to capitals around the world to persuade them that this is in their interest, it would be cutting off and cracking down on Iranian sanctions evasion. Speaking there too, NPR's morning edition. The investigation continues into an alleged cocaine ring at Penn State, where drug dealers
allegedly used to frat houses to sell drugs to students, and here's Brian Mann reports the big substance use risk on U.S. campuses isn't cocaine, it's alcohol. The drug busted Penn State was headline-grabbing, 14 people arrested, fraternity pledges allegedly helping process cocaine sold at campus parties, but federal research shows cocaine use among college-age Americans has actually been dropping fast, Meghan Patrick
at the University of Michigan is one of the co-authors of an annual report studying substance use.
“There's been a decrease over the past five years in cocaine use among young adults in the”
U.S. The prevalence overall is about 5%. Alcohol use among college-age Americans has also fallen, but federal research shows about half of young adults still drink. The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism estimates that as many as 1,500 college students die each year from causes linked to alcohol, Brian Mann and PR news.
You're listening to NPR News from Washington. A new study of former NFL players who died recently finds that at least a quarter of them had the neurodegenerative condition known as CTE. The research from mass general Brigham is the newest attempt to estimate the prevalence of CTE among football players. And PR's Becky Sullivan has more.
For years former NFL players in their families have been donating their brains to researchers to see whether they had chronic traumatic and cephalopathy or CTE. That means most research has something of a sample bias, as many samples came from people with symptoms of brain disease, like mood swings or memory loss. The new study essentially sought to find a denominator. Researchers counted up every player who'd appeared at least one NFL game any time since
1949, then focused on those two died between 2016 and 2021. With more than 200 donated brains already definitively diagnosed with CTE, that's at a minimum prevalence of about 25%. In a statement the NFL told NPR the league, quote, "continuously strives to make the game a football safer, including by implementing strategies to reduce concussions and head impacts," Becky Sullivan and PR news.
The Pentagon says the U.S. military carried out a strike on a vessel believed to be a drug boat in the Pacific, killing two people on board allegedly trafficking drugs. The U.S. other commands says the strike happened over the weekend over what they say are established narco trafficking routes. It's not to be the first in two months. The death toll from the nearly year-long U.S. campaign of bombing alleged drug boats in the eastern Pacific
has left at least 223 people dead in 67 strikes. I'm Janine Herbst and PR News in Washington. For the past 25 years, a rare Pacific ecosystem has been undisturbed. Now the Trump administration is opening nearby waters to commercial fishing.
The Americans' fishermen have never had a better ally in the White House than Donald Trump.
This week on the Sunday Story, we discuss what's at stake for this wild ecosystem. Listen
