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NPR’s Juana Summers speaks with J.B. Pritzker, the governor of Illinois, about hosting a group of Texas state lawmakers as they protest a partisan redistricting effort in their state. JUANA SUMMERS, HOST: There is a fight that started in Texas and is now being fought around the country. More than 50 Democratic members of the Texas state House left their state on Sunday because the Republican majority legislature directed by a Republican governor and publicly pressured by a Republican president has redrawn its congressional map with the aim of netting five more Republican seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.…

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Jon Wiener: From The Nation magazine, this is Start Making Sense. I’m Jon Wiener. Later in the show: Robert Reich says the origin of our troubles with Trump and MAGA go back to the sixtieshe says it was our mistake, starting with the sixties movements – that we created “a giant political void that would eventually be filled by Donald Trump’s angry, bigoted cultural populism.”  His new memoir is “Coming Up Short” — we’ll talk about it, later in the hour. But first, how do we face how bad things are now, while also understanding the reasons for hope –…

Federal authorities have arrested an American soldier who allegedly tried to share classified information about the Army’s M1A2 Abrams tank with Russia, the Justice Department said.Taylor Adam Lee — a 22-year-old active-duty Army member stationed at Fort Bliss in Texas — was arrested Wednesday and charged under the Espionage Act with attempted transmission of national defense information to a foreign adversary, federal prosecutors said in a statement. He was also charged under the Arms Export Control Act.The Justice Department claimed Lee “transmitted export-controlled technical information on the M1A2 Abrams Tank online and offered assistance to the Russian Federation.” Prosecutors accused…

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President Donald Trump is pictured walking to Marine One to depart the White House in May, with the Washington Monument in the background. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images President Trump said he is considering taking over the police force of Washington, D.C., after a former member of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was injured in an attempted carjacking over the weekend. “He went through a bad situation to put it mildly, and there’s too much of it. We’re going to do something about it,” Trump told reporters in the Oval…

Inside Trump’s tariffs against India Inside Trump’s tariffs against India for buying oil from Russia 03:09 Washington — President Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday imposing an additional 25% tariff on goods from India because it continues to buy oil from Russia.The announcement by the president comes just a week after he said he would be slapping a 25% tariff on imports from India, as well as an unspecified “penalty,” because of its purchases of Russian military equipment and energy. The additional tariff are set to take effect in 21 days, according to the directive. The latest action brings…

Politics / August 6, 2025 The Florida migrant gulag is what happens when the depravities of colonialist foreign policy are turned inward. Ad Policy A Florida Highway Patrol officer looks on as protesters gather to demand the closure of the immigrant detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz” at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport in Ochopee, Florida, on July 22, 2025.(Chandan Khanna / AFP via Getty Images) They’re calling it “Alligator Alcatraz”—a sprawling migrant detention center deep in the Florida wetlands, surrounded by flood zones, razor wire, and a sense of menace. Crawling with both literal and governmental predators, it…

Washington — President Trump and Apple announced a new $100 billion commitment by Apple to boost manufacturing in the U.S.”Today, Apple is announcing it will invest $600 billion…in the U.S. over the next four years,” Mr. Trump said Wednesday afternoon. “That’s $100 billion more than they were originally going to invest. And this is the largest investment Apple has ever made in America.”He said the investment would create 20,000 new jobs at Apple and said the tech giant planned to build a smart glass manufacturing line in Kentucky.Mr. Trump called the investment “a significant step toward the ultimate goal of…

The Trump administration said Wednesday it was sanctioning Mexican musician Ricardo Hernández, known as “El Makabelico,” over allegations that the artist was laundering money for a drug cartel.The move comes after the administration has stripped the visas of some of Mexico’s most famous musicians, targeting those whose genres often explore themes related to cartels.The U.S. Treasury Department accused Hernández, a musician they refer to as a “narco-rapper,” of being associated with the Cartel del Noreste, CDN, an evolution of the former Zetas Cartel. According to the department, he laundered money for the criminal group through concerts and events. The CDN…