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Chapter 1: What recent military incident did President Trump address?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dan Ronan. President Trump says two Army helicopter crew members on an Apache helicopter shot down Monday near the Strait of Hormuz have been rescued. The U.S. has deployed helicopters and other aircraft to enforce a military blockade along the critical waterway.
The president spoke with reporters late Monday night in New York City after leaving the NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden. The pilots are fine, yeah. Nobody injured. We are going to issue a report. It's unclear why that helicopter went down. The San Antonio Spurs won Game 3 of the NBA Finals Monday night at Madison Square Garden. The final score, San Antonio 115, the New York Knicks 111.
New York leads the best of seven series, two games to one game. Five is Wednesday night in New York City. President Trump attended the game sitting in an enhanced security suite with the Knicks owner, James Dolan. Key races for Congress will test how much voters are willing to embrace candidates with scandals in their past. NPR's Barbara Sprunt reports.
There was a time when scandal was a death knell for a political career. But Brandon Rottinghaus, a professor of political science at the University of Houston, says these days some politicians are more likely to lean into a scandal.
A lot of politicians will simply frame a scandal as a partisan attack or as misinformation or as a witch hunt that helps rally their base.
He says the strategy leverages a deep distrust in the media and a hyperpolarized environment where partisanship outweighs everything else. Barbara Sprunt, NPR News, Washington.
Watchdogs at the Government Accountability Office are raising concerns about the Census Bureau's work on modernization and how it stores and processes data it collects through the federal government surveys. NPR's Hansi Le Wang reports.
The Census Bureau has a new program for managing the survey responses it collects to produce key statistics. including results from the 2030 census. But Kevin Walsh, the director of the Government Accountability Office, sees a problem.
He says the way the Bureau has estimated the timing of the rollout for parts of its centralized data repository runs the risk of delays in releasing 2030 census data.
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Chapter 2: How are political scandals influencing voter behavior?
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