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What is President Trump’s new “no‑taxes‑on‑tips” policy and how are Las Vegas workers reacting?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Libby Casey. President Trump is trying to sell Nevada and the nation on his economic agenda. At a stop in Las Vegas today, Trump touted his no-taxes-on-tips policy. But as NPR's Deepa Shivaram reports, some workers say it isn't enough to combat lower tourism and higher prices from the Iran war.
Mario Sandoval has been a server in Las Vegas for 40 years. He's a tipped worker, but he says his salary is way down compared to previous years because fewer tourists are coming to the city. They're not spending or eating like they used to anymore. The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority says tourism dipped 7.5 percent in 2025. And that's a big hit for workers who rely on tourism and tips. Trump, meanwhile, continues to argue that his economy is doing great.
How is the decline in tourism affecting tipped workers like Mario Sandoval in Las Vegas?
But a new Reuters-Ipsos poll shows that for the first time in nearly a decade, more Americans prefer Democrats on handling the economy instead of Republicans. Deepa Shivaram, NPR News, Las Vegas.
In Michigan, progressive Abdul Al-Sayed has narrowly won the state's highly-watched Senate primary, defeating the more moderate Democrat, Representative Haley Stevens. It was the most expensive Senate primary ever. Haley took money from corporate interest groups and the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC. Al-Sayed refused corporate PAC donations and ran a grassroots campaign. Today, he told NPR he's now turning his attention to the general election and Republican opponent Mike Rogers.
What unites us is way bigger than what divides us. We know that Trumpism has been just a colossal failure. We know that to defeat Trumpism, we're going to have to defeat Trump's handpicked candidate for U.S.
Why did progressive Abdul Al‑Sayed win Michigan’s Senate primary and what does his grassroots strategy mean for the general election?
Senate. And we know that the responsibility we have to come to make sure that we're protecting people's health care, that we're standing up for clean air, clean water, that we're fighting for affordability for working people is way bigger than anything that divides us.
Stevens has endorsed Al-Sayed. The Senate seat is being vacated by retiring Democrat Gary Peters. Online prediction market CalShe can no longer do business in the state of Utah. That's after a federal judge ruled that the company is not immune to the state's ban on gambling. Sean Higgins with member station KUER has more.
Gambling and other games of chance are explicitly banned in the Utah Constitution, driven largely by the beliefs of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which is headquartered in the state. Earlier this year, state lawmakers added proposition bets, like the ones made on Kalshi and other similar websites, to the state's definition of gambling. Kalshi sued Utah in February over the law.
What legal battle did Utah face over the online prediction‑market Kalshi and how might it affect gambling laws?
It argued the state couldn't treat its sports futures contracts as bets because it operates as a federally registered exchange. The court disagreed. Utah Attorney General Derrick Brown celebrated the outcome, saying clever branding can't beat state law. Kalshi says it plans to appeal. For NPR News, I'm Sean Higgins in Salt Lake City.
This is NPR News. A California man who was arrested at President Trump's Los Angeles-area golf course Sunday was pretending to be part of the security detail preparing for Trump's visit and had a stash of illegal weapons in his car and home. Jeanine Jontel faces both state and federal charges. The Vatican has announced that Pope Leo XIV will visit South America later this year. NPR's Jason Derose reports that as part of the visit, he'll return to a country he knows well.
When and why is Pope Leo XIV visiting South America, and what significance does each country hold?
Pope Leo plans to visit three countries in November, Uruguay, Argentina, and Peru. The visit to Peru will be something of a homecoming for the pontiff. He first arrived in the country as a missionary in the 1980s and later served as a bishop there. In fact, he holds both Peruvian and U.S. citizenship. Leo's visit to Argentina may prove bittersweet for Catholics there. His predecessor, Pope Francis, was from Buenos Aires but never visited the country during his 12-year papacy. The visit to Uruguay is meant to promote evangelization there, where only about 40% of the population is Catholic.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is President Trump’s new “no‑taxes‑on‑tips” policy and how are Las Vegas workers reacting?
0:00–0:51
2
How is the decline in tourism affecting tipped workers like Mario Sandoval in Las Vegas?
0:51–1:42
3
Why did progressive Abdul Al‑Sayed win Michigan’s Senate primary and what does his grassroots strategy mean for the general election?
1:42–2:35
4
What legal battle did Utah face over the online prediction‑market Kalshi and how might it affect gambling laws?
2:35–3:27
5
When and why is Pope Leo XIV visiting South America, and what significance does each country hold?
3:27–4:10
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Why is Neil Armstrong’s childhood home up for sale and what could happen to this historic property?
4:10–5:04