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Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. President Trump made a controversial offer last night. During his speech, closing out the first night of his Republican midterm convention in Dallas, Trump offered a cash payment to every adult U.S. citizen at the Republican Party, maintains control of Congress after the November election. You win with us and you get $5,000. It will be called the Trump dividend. Trump did not provide details about where the money would come.

from or the legality of such a payment. According to the most recent census data, the Trump dividend could cost $1 trillion or more. In Dallas Wednesday, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate James Tala Rico hosted a food drive while Republicans began their midterm convention. Caroline Love from Emmerstation KERA reports. Volunteers helped Tala Rigo distribute more than 20,000 pounds of groceries at the Frederick Douglas Human Services and Justice Center. The food drive is part of Talleyco's counter-programming to the Republican midterm convention taking place in Dallas that's being billed as Trumpa-Palooza. Talariko says hosting a midterm convention while people are struggling financially is in poor taste. While we're here serving our neighbors,

billionaire mega donors and their puppet politicians are clinking their champagne glasses. A recent Texas politics project, Paul, found more than half of Texas voters disapprove of President Donald Trump's handling of the economy. For NPR news, I'm Caroline Love in Dallas. One of the pilots of that Amazon cargo plane that crashed while landing in Miami Sunday warned that the plane was coming in too fast. That's according to the National Transportation Safety Board, which released a summary Wednesday at the cockpit voice recordings. The NTSB said the other pilot never gave a consistent verbal response. The plane touched down awkwardly, briefly attempted to take off again before overshooting the runway and smashing into a van, killing five members of an airport cleaning

crew. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky in Canada. He arrived in Calgary last night for a three-day visit. Dan Carpichuk report said Zelensky will meet with Prime Minister Mark Carney later today. Zelensky will also address a meeting of the Canadian cabinet in the resort town of Banff, Alberta. Carney's office says the visit will focus on strengthening defense, economic, and energy cooperation. Carney says the two will also discuss the human cost of what he described as Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine, adding that Canada remains committed to supporting Ukraine's defense, as well as its recovery and reconstruction. Since 2022, Canada has pledged $6.5 billion in military aid for Ukraine. Zelensky's visit comes as some European leaders

warned that Moscow is widening its war through acts of sabotage by paying others to vandalize railways and disrupt European airports using drones. For NPR news, I'm Dan Carpenchuk in Toronto. This is NPR. Rhode Island's incumbent Democratic governor has lost his bid for a second full term. In the state's Democratic primary Wednesday, voters chose former CVS executive Helena Fulkes over Governor Dan McKee. He is the first governor to lose a party primary in eight years. The racketeering conspiracy trial against China's Huawei technology, kicked off Wednesday in federal court in Brooklyn. Federal prosecutors accusing Huawei of a litany of crimes, including stealing technology from American companies, abusing the U.S. financial

system and helping Iran spy on its citizens. Huawei is banned from selling gear for wireless telecom networks to U.S. carriers over fears a company poses a security risk. It's been banned by other Western allies. Federal government plans to remove wild horses from public lands in Colorado this month, even as state leaders are asking to freeze operations. Rachel Cohen, with the Mountain West News Bureau, has more. Members of Colorado's congressional delegation and governor, Jared Polis, are asking the federal government to stop using helicopters to gather wild horses on public lands. The immediate concern is the inhumane nature of these helicopter roundups in which horses are

terrified, injured, and scared. The plea comes after the Bureau of Land Management removed nearly 900 horses in Colorado in August, and nine animals died in the operation. The agency says its roundups protect the animals in rangelands when populations are above target levels. It plans to remove 245 more horses in Colorado starting next week. For NPR News, I'm Rachel Cohen in Boulder. And I'm Giles Snyder. This is NPR News.