Live from NPR News and Washington, on Ryland Barton, the Republican mid-term ...
closes tonight with speeches from President Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance last
“night, Trump promised to send $5,000 to every adult U.S. citizen, but only if Republicans”
win the mid-terms, and PR's Tamar Keith has more on whether he can do that. He'd need Congress to pass it, and that would be a tough climb, even if Republicans were to maintain control of the House and the Senate, which is a big if given the current political climate. The Groundwork Collaborative and Economic Think Tank found 15 other instances of Trump promising
to send some kind of payment or refund or dividend to Americans, just since he returned to office last year, and it still hasn't happened. And some quick math, the bill for this proposed dividend would be more than $1 trillion plus it's illegal to pay or be paid to influence voting.
NPR's Tamar Keith reporting, following the attacks of 9/11, first responders and cleanup
crews rushed toward the destruction advocates saying over 2,000 of them were immigrants who were in the U.S. illegally, and PR's Jasmine Garst reports. Many immigrant workers have gotten workers' comp and help through the James DeDrogant 9/11
“health and compensation act, but advocates say many without legal status are too scared to apply.”
So Sally asks that we withhold her last name for a fear of deportation. She worked at Ground Zero wearing a paper mask and rubber gloves. Amor Shamil, she didn't put it away to a seat, since then she's battled breast cancer and asthma. The attack released hundreds of tons of toxic debris into the air.
There have been more than 57,000 cancer cases related to exposure. The 9/11 immigrant worker freedom act would give Ground Zero workers a path to citizenship. It was introduced in 2017 and reintroduced in 2025, but remains stalled in Congress. Jasmine Garst and PR News, New York. Macy's is counting on higher prices and more luxury items to boost its turnaround plan.
The Department's stores had been struggling to improve its finances for years, now reporting higher sales in a better forecast for the year as NPR's Alina Selju reports. This marks more than a year of growing sales at Macy's after a long stretch of questionable prospects.
“The Department's store chain has been remodeling, upgrading its customer service, and the”
things itself, and the big bet seems to be on luxury and premium brands, going after higher income shoppers who have continued to spend even with a tricky economic backdrop. Executive St. Macy's is selling more upscale brands like Ralph Lauren, along with fine jewelry and watches. Its higher-end chain, blooming deals, is driving a lot of growth with sales up more than 11%
in the latest quarter.
Macy's is also getting over $100 million in tariff refunds, and the company is putting
that money toward its turnaround plan, Alina Selju and PR News. Major U.S. stock indexes, Sankt today, this is NPR News. Jimmy Kimmel says an interview with Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Taloreco won't air on TV under pressure from the FCC. It'll now only air on YouTube, Stephen Colbert showed to the same thing in February.
The FCC has been enforcing equal time rules for political candidates, which traditionally didn't apply to talk shows, Kimmel suggests the Trump administration influenced the change. Researchers say they found the most detailed feather from the age of dinosaurs, inside a chunk of fossilized dinosaur feces, and PR's arid annual reports. The discovery was made in the rocky badlands of Montana.
The feather, alongside other feathers and a couple bone pieces, likely came from an aquatic
swimming bird living some 66 million years ago.
This bird was one of many that when extinct alongside the dinosaurs, says Jing Mayo Connor of the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. Only one group of birds survives when the asteroid impact happens. The group that gave rise to modern birds, but what allowed them to make it through the ensuing drop in global temperature?
Perhaps they were better insulated, says O'Connor, based on her study of the newly-found fossilized feathers. Other researchers dispute there's enough evidence, arid annual, and PR news. Isou Haromoto, the baseball grade who survived the Hiroshima atomic bomb, and still holds Japanese baseball's record for hits has died.
He was 86, nicknamed the hit machine. Harimoto was the only player in Japan to hit more than 3,000 hits. He was 5 when he survived the U.S. atomic bombing in 1945. This is NPR News. This week on Hirano any time, 25 years after 9/11, we asked you how your life changed.
"I did not appreciate that day how much September 11th would come to shape my adult life." We also talk about the long shadow of Islamophobia still hanging over the country. Listen to Hirano any time on the NPR app or anywhere you listen to podcasts.
