Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.
Labor Day traditionally marks the unofficial start of the general election campaign, and voting's already getting underway.
The first mail in ballots went out Friday, and if your Steven Fowler looks at where both
parties stand heading into the final stretch. The party in power tends to lose seats in midterm elections, and this year is poised to be no different. President Trump's second term agenda and performance is historically unpopular, but the GOP is holding a midterm convention this weekend Dallas, hoping to inspire the base and convince
independent voters to give them two more years to get things done in Congress. Poles and primary results have shown Democrats are especially motivated to vote, and thanks to Trump's unpopularity and strong nominees in states like Ohio, Texas, Iowa, and Alaska control both the House and the Senate could flip this year. Steven Fowler and PR News
A privacy group has filed the latest lawsuit to challenge the Trump administration's unprecedented
efforts to compile lists of adult U.S. citizens in each state.
“As NPR's Hansi Lohong reports, that effort stems from a key part of an order by President”
Trump that a federal judge found to be likely unconstitutional. Part of President Trump's order that's attempting to restrict mail-in voting calls for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and the Social Security Administration to compile lists of people who the federal government decides are adult U.S. citizens eligible to vote in each state.
Those lists were supposed to be available to state officials by September 4th, according to court filings and two lawsuits led by the Electronic Privacy Information Center and Democratic groups, the Trump administration has pushed back that deadline indefinitely. A federal judge had blocked this project in June after finding the federal agencies have no authority to maintain voter lists or control federal elections, which the Constitution
says are left to the states and Congress. Last month, the Supreme Court paused that judge's ruling after finding it was too early for courts to weigh in. On Zila Long and Fier News. Russia is calling this week's shuttle diplomacy by White House envoy Steve Whitka and President
“Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner to Moscow and Ukraine's capital key of a "small step"”
toward ending that conflict. But his empire's Charles Mane's reports, the fighting continues. Whitka often Kushner's travels to the region took place amid an agreed pause and attacks that extended the Moscow and key of, yet fighting continued elsewhere, with Russia again taking advantage of Ukraine's depleted air defenses and Ukraine, again striking oil facilities
that have led to gas shortages across Russia this summer. Separately Russia reported at least six people killed in a series of Ukrainian drone strikes, including one that flew directly into an apartment building in the Palm region. Down going at tax come as both sides of signal the war will continue at least through the winter.
And the Kremlin said it didn't route or return to three-way peace talks with the U.S. and Ukraine at some point. Charles Mane's and PR News Moscow. And you're listening to NPR News from Washington. His trade talks between the United States and Canada stall, Canadian Prime Minister Mark
Carney, says retaliatory tariffs on U.S. products, start tomorrow, absent last minute negotiations.
As after President Trump imposed an additional 50 percent tariffs on some $20 billion worth
of Canadian products. Carney says the tariffs will target U.S. sectors, including steel, dairy, agricultural equipment, and paper. Let's week Trump signed an executive order to rename part of Lake Ontario as Lake America. Well, this long weekend marks the unofficial end of summer, amid the officials start to
school around the country, impures Genokimitha reports. She visited an elementary school in Los Angeles to see how they kick off the year. At mutual terrain of street elementary kindergartners are starting the year with some big feelings.
“That's why mutual terrain has a longstanding tradition of older and wiser fifth graders, welcoming”
you kindergarteners telemetry school. Fifth graders like Gerald Gomez Reina, who says part of his job, is to help the new students with the transition by accessing emotional tools like breathing and quiet safe place and garbage can with garbage can. Garbage can is when you go away feelings if you get sad or mad.
And he said the idea is to make sure kindergarteners start the year off hand in hand with the built-in friend. Genokimitha and pair news Los Angeles, and I'm Janine Herbst, NPR News in Washington. Billionaire Mark Cuban has stared into the belly of the beast of America's healthcare system.
I mean, it's so bad you can go through a long list of really quality hospitals and they don't know their costs. So can Medicare for all be a solution? We take a hard look at the cost of the program along with US healthcare itself. Find this and hear more stories from the indicator from planet money on the NPR app.
