--:-- Lakshmi Singh: Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh.
--:-- Lakshmi Singh: President Trump's commemorating the anniversary of his re-election to a second term. He marked the occasion a short time ago at a business forum in Miami where he talked about a U.S. economy thriving on his watch.
--:-- Lakshmi Singh: 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.
--:-- Lakshmi Singh: Trump also acknowledged Republican losses to Democrats yesterday in a number of key races widely viewed as a rebuke of tariffs and other Trump policies.
--:-- Lakshmi Singh: 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.
--:-- Lakshmi Singh: Hours later, California Republicans filed a lawsuit challenging voter approval of a redistricting measure that would benefit Democrats. Prop 50 was the Democrats' response to similar initiatives in GOP-led states.
--:-- Lakshmi Singh: Jewish and Muslim groups are responding to the election of Democratic Socialist Zahran Mamdani as the next mayor of New York City.
--:-- Jason DeRose: Here NPR Jason DeRose.
--:-- 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 anti-Semitism.
--:-- Jason DeRose: Many Jewish leaders had raised concerns about Mamdani's pro-Palestinian and anti-Zionist positions.
--:-- Jason DeRose: The Anti-Defamation League says it's launching a tip line to report Mamdani administration policies and appointments that might affect Jewish New Yorkers.
--:-- Jason DeRose: The Council for American-Islamic Relations is calling Mamdani's election an historic turning point for Muslims, as well as a rebuke of Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian politics.
--:-- Jason DeRose: Democrats prevailed in two major gubernatorial races, one in Virginia, the other in New Jersey, where Congresswoman Mikey Sherrill won.
--:-- Mikey Sherrill: The key to my success is ruthless confidence. And so we got it done in the campaign.
--:-- Mikey Sherrill: 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.
--:-- Jody Fortino: For member station KCUR, here's Jody Fortino.
--:-- Jody Fortino: Voters in Missouri's largest school district have approved a four-day school week.
--:-- Jody 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.
--:-- Jody Fortino: 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 week.
--:-- Jody Fortino: About a third of the state's school districts are participating in a four-day week as they navigate how to keep educators while struggling with limited resources to raise salaries.
--:-- Jody Fortino: 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.
--:-- Jody Fortino: For NPR News, I'm Jody Fortino in Kansas City.
--:-- Lakshmi Singh: The Dow Jones Industrial Average is up more than 300 points.
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--:-- Lakshmi Singh: 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.
--:-- Lakshmi Singh: The plane crashed as it was taking off for Honolulu from UPS Worldport at Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport.
--:-- Lakshmi Singh: Supreme Court justices appeared skeptical today of the government argument that President Trump could bypass Congress to impose tariffs on other countries by using national security as a legal rationale.
--:-- Lakshmi Singh: Both the court's six conservatives and its three liberals sharply questioned D John Sauer the Solicitor General on President Trump's use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
--:-- Lakshmi Singh: Concerns about the spread of bird flu on farms are growing.
--:-- Lakshmi Singh: According to the Department of Agriculture, more than three million birds, mostly turkey and chickens, have been affected in the past month.
--:-- Will Stone: Pierre Aswell Stone has the latest.
--:-- Will Stone: States in the middle of the country, especially Minnesota, have seen a big spike.
--:-- Will Stone: As wild birds migrate, they can seed outbreaks on farms.
--:-- Will Stone: The virus has not shown up much in dairy cattle in recent months, though scientists say that may be due to lack of testing.
--:-- Will Stone: And all of this presents a risk to farm workers.
--:-- Dr. Nerev Shah: Dr. Nerev Shah helped lead the bird flu response under President Biden.
--:-- Dr. Nerev Shah: When it comes to the risk of avian influenza, we're flying blind.
--:-- Dr. Nerev Shah: 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.
--:-- Will Stone: Meanwhile, farm workers who are often undocumented are reluctant to get tested because of the administration's immigration enforcement.
--:-- Lakshmi Singh: I'm Lakshmi Singh, NPR News, in Washington.
