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Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. General election contests are decided in several more states that held primaries yesterday, including Nevada, South Carolina, North Dakota and Maine, where Democrats attempt to flip. The seat held by Republican Susan Collins is being closely watched for the U.S. senate. NPR Stephen Fowler reports that despite a series of controversies, the Graham Platner was elected the Democratic nominee.
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Susan Collins is a Republican representing a state that votes for Democrats at the presidential and statewide levels. So on paper, it should be an easy pickup for Democrats, especially in a year where people are sour on the Republican Party and there are a lot of Democratic voters showing up and surging to vote. You know, it is a state that is basically a must win for both Democrats and Republicans to have control of the Senate.
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NPR Stephen Fowler reporting. The prediction market site Kalshi is starting to require traders to reveal their employers as a way of cracking down on insider trading. This comes as a popular betting site faces new pressures to combat market manipulation. NPR's Bobby Allen reports.
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Kaushi says putting money down on a company's performance or national security matters, like the war in Iran, will now mean revealing where you work. Prediction market apps like Kalshi and Polymarket have soared in President Trump's second term thanks to lax regulations allowing virtually anyone to bet on anything from the color of President Trump's tie to who will be eliminated on the next season of Love Island. But there's growing research that some of the billions of dollars traded every week on the apps is done so using insider intel. Kaushi's new employer disclosure requirements come as lawmakers and regulators in Washington weigh new rules for the industry. But critics of the administration say since the president's son, Donald Trump Jr. Is an advisor to both companies, the these rules are not expected to be too stringent.
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Bobby Allen, NPR News, NPR has obtained a letter from ICE to members of Congress that provides insight into the agency's data collection practices on protesters. NPR's Jude Jaffe block reports. Peaceful observers have argued their First Amendment rights are being violated when they are surveilled and tracked by federal agents.
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Former acting director of ice, Todd Lyons, has denied his agency has a database of protesters. Lyons recently departed his post, but after Florida Congressman Maxwell Frost and other Democrats posed additional questions earlier this year, Lyons wrote a response back in April that NPR is the first media outlet to review the letter indicates that ICE gives itself wide latitude to collect biographic and biometric data on people who agents believe are threatening officer safety or impeding operations. Civil liberties advocates say it's the clearest official acknowledgment yet that ICE may be routinely gathering and preserving information on protesters and observers who are not arrested. Jude Joffe Block, NPR News.
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You're listening to NPR. Today, President Trump signed a $70 billion immigration enforcement package. Meanwhile, Congress has until Friday to approve an extension of the Foreign Surveillance Intelligence act, the law allowing US Surveillance of foreigners. Some lawmakers are concerned about passing a FISA extension while the position of director of National Intelligence remains in limbo. But House Speaker Mike Johnson says he's in favor of a short term extens While President Trump finds Tulsi Gabbard's replacement,
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he is in the process of interviewing the persons who would potentially be the next dni. They're going to be highly qualified. All these potential nominees are President Trump
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says National Intelligence is bloated and named Bill Pulte to oversee downsizing as acting dni. The nation's leading medical group for women's health, is advising all pregnant women to keep getting their routine Covid vaccines. But as NPR's Rob Stein reports, that's no longer a position the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention holds.
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The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists includes the COVID vaccine guidance in the group's latest vaccine recommendations for pregnant women. The group says all pregnant women should continue getting the COVID shot, along with vaccinations for the flu, whooping cough, tetanus, diphtheria and rsv. It's the first time the group's recommendations have differed from the CDC's. Several leading medical groups have issued their own vaccine guidance because of changes to federal vaccine recommendations under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. A longtime vaccine critic. Rob Stein, NPR News.
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I'm Lakshmi Singh, NPR News.
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