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What is the Missouri Supreme Court deciding about the state's congressional redistricting?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Korva Coleman, Missouri Secretary of State will appear before the Missouri Supreme Court today. The state judges are deciding whether Denny Hoskins should be held in contempt of court over the state's congressional redistricting battle. There have been different court opinions handed down. That favor Missouri's old congressional map or a new one that could favor Republican candidates. St. Louis Public Radio's Jason Rosenbaum explains the Secretary of State has told state election officials to use the map that favors the GOP.
It's a court battle right now between state and federal judges, and redistricting opponents have appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. The US Supreme Court has already refused to weigh in once that with the state Supreme Court ruling, the one that tossed out the GOP leaning map.
How is President Trump’s $5,000 cash‑handout proposal being received and evaluated?
Meanwhile, election fictionals don't know which congressional districts voters should be in for the November election.
Jason Rosenbaum reporting. President Trump is promising to give each American adult five thousand dollars if Republicans win control of Congress again in the midterm elections. He made the surprise offer last night while speaking at the Republicans midterm convention in Dallas. But his offer of money is drawing a lot of criticism. David Wessel is the director of the Hutchins Center at the Brookings Institution, a center left leaning think tank.
President Trump's proposal to send five thousand dollars to every American adult would cost one point two trillion dollars. This is impractical, imprudent, and impossible to imagine actually happening. Of course we have sent checks to people before, we did that during the COVID pandemic, but that was in an emergency and we're not in that kind of emergency now.
Why are record‑high fuel and diesel prices affecting the Port of Los Angeles and American families?
This is all showmanship. And basically an attempt to try and bribe people into voting Republican in November. And then people will learn that the president can't make good on this promise.
That's David Wessel of the Brookings Institution. Record high fuel prices are driving up shipping costs. NPR Scott Horsley reports on how that's being felt at the busy port of Los Angeles.
More than half a million cargo containers came into the port of LA last month as U.S. retailers stock up for the holiday shopping season. Two thirds of those shipping containers leave the port on the back of a truck.
What evidence shows this summer was the hottest on record for the United States and the planet?
Price of diesel fuels hit a record high nationwide, and it's even higher in Southern California, where Port Director Gene Siroca says diesel's selling for nearly eight dollars a gallon.
Everybody's running as fast as they can, but the higher these fuel prices go just simply mean higher prices for American families.
Escalating tensions in the US war with Iran have pushed crude oil prices higher. The cost of refining oil into diesel fuel is also at record levels.
The US military says it has conducted another deadly strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean. US Southern Command says three people suspected of drug trafficking were killed. The Trump administration has killed more than two hundred twenty-five people in this way in the past year. This has been the hottest summer in the United States in more than a century, and Pierre's Lauren summer
has more. It's not your imagination.
Who is suing labor leader César Chávez and what are the allegations behind the lawsuit?
This summer was hot. In the US, it was the hottest summer in 132 years of record keeping in the lower 48 states. August was also the hottest August on record for both average temperature and maximum temperature. That's according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Globally, August was also the hottest month ever recorded, tying with July of 2023. It was about three degrees Fahrenheit hotter than average, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service. The planet is looking at potentially a hot year ahead, too. A very strong El Nino climate pattern is developing, which raises temperatures globally. Lauren Summer, NPR News.
Why does a former Anthropic researcher argue that AI could become an existential threat?
Once volunteered to work with late Labour leader Cesar Chavez, he is now suing two non profit associations tied to him. Lossiou claims Chavez sexually assaulted the woman decades ago.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the Missouri Supreme Court deciding about the state's congressional redistricting?
0:00–0:52
2
How is President Trump’s $5,000 cash‑handout proposal being received and evaluated?
0:52–1:52
3
Why are record‑high fuel and diesel prices affecting the Port of Los Angeles and American families?
1:52–2:30
4
What evidence shows this summer was the hottest on record for the United States and the planet?
2:30–3:30
5
Who is suing labor leader César Chávez and what are the allegations behind the lawsuit?
3:30–4:10
6
Why does a former Anthropic researcher argue that AI could become an existential threat?
4:10–5:00