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Will Stone
On the Throughline podcast from npr, the story of the undersea cables that run the Internet.
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Jodi Fortino
Other historians have compared it to the Apollo missions of going to the moon. Listen to Throughline in the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Lakshmi Singh
Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. President Trump's commemorating the anniversary of his re election to a second term marked the occasion a short time ago at a business forum in Miami where he talked about a US Economy thriving on his watch.
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Donald Trump
It's been really helped a lot by the tariffs. It's been really helped incredibly because this is really a transition period. We went from a horrible failed country to a tremendous success. It's a transition.
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Lakshmi Singh
Trump also acknowledged Republican losses to Democrats yesterday in a number of key races widely viewed as as a rebuke of tariffs and other Trump policies. In GOP reactions to yesterday's setback, Trump urged Senate Republicans at a breakfast this morning to scrap the filibuster, blaming the losses on the government shutdown. Hours later, California Republicans filed a lawsuit challenging voter approval of a redistricting measure that would benefit Democrats. Prop. 50 was a Democrats response to similar initiatives in GOP led states. Jewish and Muslim groups are responding to the election of Democratic Socialist Zoran Mamdani is the next mayor of New York City. Here's NPR's Jason DeRose.
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Jason DeRose
The union for Reform Judaism said in a statement that it would hold the new mayor accountable to his commitments to protect Jewish communities and confront antisemitism. Many Jewish leaders had raised concerns about Mamdani's pro Palestinian and anti Zionist positions. The Anti Defamation League says it's launching a tip line to report Mamdani administration policies and appointments that might affect Jewish New Yorkers. The Council for American Islamic Relations is calling Mamdani election and historic turning point for Muslims as well as a rebuke of Islamophobia and anti Palestinian politics. Jason DeRose, NPR News.
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Lakshmi Singh
Democrats prevailed in two major gubernatorial races, one in Virginia, the other New Jersey, where Congresswoman Mikey Sherrill won. She spoke to npr.
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Mikey Sherrill
The key to my success is ruthless confidence. And so we got it done in the campaign. We put together just the biggest, I think most professional campaign the state's seen and we saw great results last night and it feels good.
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Lakshmi Singh
Voters in Missouri's largest school district have approved a four day school week. From member station kcur, here's Jodi Fortino.
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Jodi Fortino
The independent school district located in a Kansas City suburb adopted the shorter week two years ago to attract more teachers amid a statewide shortage. But a new Missouri law requires that larger school districts get voter approval by the next school year to start or continue a four day weekend. About a third of the state school districts are participating in a four day week as they navigate how to keep educators while struggling with limited resources to raise salaries. Most of the school districts on the shorter week are small and located in rural areas, but the one in Independence may push more suburban schools to consider changing their schedule. For NPR News, I'm Jodi Fortino in Kansas City.
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Lakshmi Singh
The Dow Jones industrial average is up more than 300 points. It's NPR News following developments on the UPS cargo plane crash in Louisville, Kentucky, yesterday. Local authorities say at least nine people died and more than 12 were injured. The plane crashed as it was taking off for Honolulu from UPS worldport at Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport. Supreme Court justices appeared skeptical today of the government's argument that President Trump could bypass Congress to impose tariffs on other countries by using national security as a legal rationale. Both the court's six conservatives and its three liberals sharply question D. John Sauer, the solicitor general, on President Trump's use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. Concerns about the spread of bird flu on farms are growing. According to the Department of agriculture, more than 3 million birds, mostly turkey and chickens, have been affected in the past month. NPR's Wollstone has the latest.
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Will Stone
States in the middle of the country, especially Minnesota, have seen a big spike. As wild birds migrate, they can seed outbreaks on farms. These the virus has not shown up much in dairy cattle in recent months, though scientists say that may be due to lack of testing. And all of this presents a risk to farm workers. Dr. Nariv Shah helped lead the bird flu response under President Biden.
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Lakshmi Singh
When it comes to the risk of avian influenza, we're flying blind.
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Will Stone
Shah says cutbacks in the federal workforce and the government shutdown have put the country in a precarious situation and make it more likely human cases could go undetected. Meanwhile, farmworkers, who are often undocumented, are reluctant to get tested because of the administration's immigration enforce. Will Stone, NPR News.
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Lakshmi Singh
I'm Lakshmi Singh, NPR News in Washington.
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