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President Trump says he doesn't believe the renewed air strikes being carried out by the
“U.S. and Iran in the Middle East will last long, but he says the U.S. hit Tehran very”
hard in its latest attacks, the President made the remarks to reporters yesterday at the White House. The Trump administration is directing states to report anyone discovered to be in the U.S. illegally, NPR's Jasmine Garth says the new policy marks a reversal of a long-standing legal opinion.
In 1996, Congress enacted the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act. It requires that federal and state agencies administering welfare report and authorized immigrants getting benefits to homeland security. In an opinion published this week, the Trump administration's Office of Legal Council broadened this requirement saying that all state agencies should be reporting people without legal status
to the federal government. States like Illinois, California, and New York have laws designed to protect personnel data from being shared with federal immigration authorities, meaning the new policy is likely to be challenged. Jasmine Garth's NPR News, New York.
“Two Democrats and Congress are urging the Department of Homeland Security to help state and local”
officials bolster election security ahead of November, NPR's Genomekloffland reports. ahead of the midterm elections, two Democrats are urging President Trump's Homeland Security chief Mark Wayne Mullin, and the acting director of the cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency Nick Anderson to take action. Senator Alex Bideev, California, and Representative Joseph Moral of New York demand that
DHS distribute the nearly $40 million Congress approved for election security, including for an information sharing center designed to help state and local election officials receive the latest intelligence on cyber threats and disinformation campaigns targeting their offices.
The lawmakers point to ongoing digital tax facing American critical infrastructure and federal
cyber job cuts as additional reasons for urgency. Genomekloffland and PR News. In Minnesota police are investigating a shooting inside a downtown Minneapolis high-rise apartment building that left two people dead and five others wounded.
“The city's mayor, Jacob Fry, says two responding police officers were among those hit by”
gunfire. Two officers were hit by gunfire, one in the leg, the other with two bullets to the abdomen. But for their heroic work, the death toll would have been far higher. A third police officer was injured though not by gunfire, police say the suspected gunman was also killed.
It's not clear what sparked the shooting in one of the building's upper floors. Wall Street Futures are higher this morning. This is NPR News from Washington. The NBA is imposing major penalties on the Los Angeles Clippers for circumventing the League salary cap to pay forward Coi Leonard.
NPR's Becky Sullivan says the Clippers will lose first-round draft picks for five years and pay tens of millions of dollars worth of fines. Back in 2021, the Clippers signed their stark Coi Leonard to a four-year extension worth over $170 million. Then, away from the public eye, the team also arranged four pretend endorsement deals that
paid Leonard, millions more, without his having to do actual endorsement work. That's according to a new investigation by a law firm just released by the NBA. The scheme was first reported on last year by the investigative journalist Pablo Tori who
won a Pulitzer Prize for it as punishment the Clippers must pay a $30 million fine and
they'll have no first-round draft picks for five years. Several team officials will be suspended from all league activities for one year including owner Steve Palmer, Becky Sullivan and Pianus. The Clippers say they plan to appeal. A new report says private employers in the US added 38,000 jobs in August, marking the slowest
pace of employment growth since January. That's according to payroll processor ADP. Most of the gains were in education and health services. The report says manufacturing lost 17,000 jobs. The latest US employment numbers are due out tomorrow from the Labor Department.
Uber says it plans to lay off about 33-hundred workers or roughly 10% of its workforce. The ride-hailing company cites tougher competition from Robo Taxis. Now futures are up 139 points, I'm Dave Maddingley and PR News in Washington. Canada and tariffs, Venezuela and oil, the war in Iran, these are big complicated stories. And they're changing fast to stay ahead, start your day with up first from NPR.
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