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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corva Coleman. President Trump is talking about the FBI's raid this week on a local election office outside Atlanta, Georgia. FBI agents took away hundreds of boxes with ballots from the 2020 presidential election. Georgia officials are suing to get them back. They're afraid someone will tamper with the ballots. Trump spoke in an interview last night with NBC News.
There should be nothing wrong with the fact that they went in, got ballots from a while ago, and they're going to look at them. And now they're going to find out the true winner of that state. And you know what? If there was cheating, which there was, but if there was cheating, it should be fine because we can't let it happen again.
Trump did not win the 2020 presidential election, although he falsely claims he did. He also claims he won the state of Georgia then. He lost that state too. No widespread cheating has ever been substantiated. Trump is also demanding that elections be taken over by the federal government. He can't do that either. The Constitution states in Article I, voting is a right reserved to states, although Congress can't pass laws about voting. The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to block a new congressional map in California. This favors Democrats. It had been challenged by California Republicans and the Trump administration. NPR's Nina Totenberg reports.
In a one-sentence unsigned order, the high court, without explanation, left in place the state's mid-decade redistricting. which could yield five additional congressional seats for California in this fall's election. In December, the court took a similar step, effectively upholding a new mid-decade Texas map that could yield five additional seats for Republicans. While the Trump administration supported the Texas redistricting, it opposed California's, describing it as tainted by an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. But California countered that its redistricting, unlike in Texas, was approved by California voters by a nearly two-thirds margin. And the Supreme Court seemed to conclude that what's good for the Texas goose is good for the California gander.
There were no noted dissents. Nina Totenberg, NPR News, Washington.
A federal judge in Florida has sentenced the man who tried to assassinate Donald Trump on a golf course in 2024. NPR's Greg Allen reports Ryan Ruth will spend the rest of his life in prison.
U.S. District Judge Eileen Cannon previously found Ruth guilty on five counts for his planned attempt on Trump's life when the then-presidential candidate was golfing at his club in West Palm Beach. At a sentencing hearing, Ruth addressed the court seeking leniency, but Judge Cannon was unmoved. Your plot to kill was deliberate and evil, she said. You are not a peaceful man. Ruth's attorney says he will appeal the life sentence. Greg Allen, NPR News.
President Trump will attend the National Prayer Breakfast this morning in Washington. The honorary co-chairs are Senators Roger Marshall of Kansas and Kirsten Gillibrand of New York. This is NPR. Two children who were detained by ICE agents in Minnesota last week have been released and returned home. They are a second grader and a fifth grader. They attend the same Minnesota elementary school as five-year-old Liam Canejo-Ramos. The small boy was detained by ICE in a Texas facility until a federal judge forced his release. The Minnesota School District says some of its children are still missing. Separately, two Minnesota school districts and the State Teachers Union are suing the Department of Homeland Security.
They claim it violated federal law by taking away a policy that said schools are safe zones. A new study finds that patients with depression can benefit from following the ketogenic diet. It is low in carbohydrates and it's high in fat, but as NPR's Will Stone reports, Researchers say their findings do not support recommending the keto diet yet.
The last few years have brought a wave of enthusiasm for the ketogenic diet and mental health, but the field has lacked high-quality evidence from randomized controlled trials.
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