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What did President Trump emphasize at his Georgia rally about the midterm elections and 'communism'?
With a little more than 100 days until the midterm elections, President Trump is hitting the campaign trail. From member station WABE in Atlanta, Rahul Bali reports on some of the issues Trump highlighted at a Wednesday rally in Georgia.
This event was supposed to focus on Trump accounts for kids, but went much wider with Trump talking about the midterm elections. He repeated a message that's been popping up on the campaign trail connecting Democrats to communism.
The radical left is actively trying to destroy our children's future with the disaster known as communism. It's communism. This isn't a social democrat. These are communists.
Trump also talked about the SAVE Act, which proposes strict proof of citizenship requirements to register to vote.
What is the SAVE Act and why did Trump call to abolish the filibuster over it?
So right now Congress is working to get as much of our plan as possible into the budget bill.
Trump again called on Senate Republicans to get rid of the filibuster over the SAVE Act. For NPR News, I'm Raoul Bally in Cobb County, Georgia.
President Trump is ramping up threats against Iran, saying on social media that the U.S. would destroy Iranian bridges and power plants if Iran shoots at ships in the Strait of Hormuz. Here's NPR's Deepa Shivaram.
Attacking civilian infrastructure could constitute a war crime. But Trump says from now onward, if Iran fires missiles, rockets, drones or any other weapons at ships in the Strait of Hormuz, the U.S. would respond by bombing one bridge or power plant. He added that those could include ones located in or near Iran's capital city, Tehran. The escalation comes as Trump has said he has no interest in meeting with Iranian negotiators. The war has gone on months longer than Trump said it would. And support for Trump's actions abroad and the higher price of goods that have come with it is dropping, even among his base. Deepa Shivaram, NPR News.
The Iran-aligned Houthi rebels claim to have made good on a threat to target Saudi shipping in the Red Sea. The Houthis say they carried out missile and drone strikes on two Saudi oil tankers as part of a naval blockade on Saudi Arabia. Trump administration has signed a nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia that could potentially provide the kingdom... with uranium enrichment capability for its civilian nuclear program, despite concerns that it could lead to a weapons program. Matthew Bunn is a nuclear proliferation expert at Harvard University.
I think it's very likely that if Saudi Arabia moved in this direction, the United States would have a variety of tools to try to pressure them. But still, Agreeing to this kind of an agreement, especially if it does lead to selling Saudi Arabia the uranium enrichment technology that would allow them to make bomb material, does pose some increased risks.
You're listening to NPR News. The trial date has been set for former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. During a brief hearing in Manhattan federal court Wednesday, a June 1st date was set for the drug trafficking case. A 2027 date was set for the drug trafficking case against him. Maduro and his wife have pleaded not guilty to allegations that they sided with drug dealers in a scheme to ship large quantities of drugs to the U.S., An independent autopsy failed to identify the cause of death for Nolan Wells, the 18-year-old in Mississippi, whose body was found shortly after he disappeared following a July 4th boat trip with friends to Arrow Jackson. With Mississippi Public Broadcasting reports.
Attorney Ben Crump, who has been representing Wells' family, presented the results of the independent autopsy. conducted by Washington, D.C. forensic pathologist Dr. Roger Mitchell. Crump says Mitchell's findings were limited because they received the body after the initial autopsy in Mississippi.
For these reasons, this pathologist cannot rule out if any intervening non-accidental factors contributed to or caused the death of Nolan Wells.
Autopsy and toxicology results by authorities in Mississippi have not been released. For NPR News, I'm Tiara Jackson in Jackson, Mississippi.
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