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Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. President Trump was back on center stage at his Republican midterm convention in Dallas Thursday night. So on election day, November 3rd, you got to do me a favor. You got to get out and vote, and you're going to pretend I'm on the ballot. Because in a way, I am on the ballot. President Trump wrapping up the two-day event with a second convention speech in as many days. He also repeated his offer to pay every adult citizen if Republicans reach. control of the House and Senate this November. In his own speech, Vice President J.D. Vance

spoke of what he called an American birthright to safety and prosperity that he said Democrats oppose. And I want our children to grow up in a country that doesn't roll its eyes at people who pray but remembers that this country itself was an answer to prayer 250 years ago. Democrats say the convention will not be enough to make voters ignore rising prices. The U.S. Supreme Court has put a more Democratic-leaning map back in place for now in Missouri. St. Louis Public Radio's Jason Rosenbaum reports on the blow the high corral to a Trump-back effort to draw more GOP districts. President Trump successfully pressured Missouri Republicans to redraw their congressional lines in 2025 to oust Democratic Congressman Emmanuel Cleaver. But redistricting opponents successfully put that map up for a statewide vote, which meant it couldn't be.

used this year. The U.S. Supreme Court stayed a federal judge's temporary restraining order to have the 2025 map used in the November elections. Missouri Democratic Party Chairman Russ Carnahan says his party has stood strong against the GOP and Trump. I think there's a bit of relief that we still need to get our elections underway. While a map for a safe seat for Cleaver is in place for now, the case could return to the federal courts. For NPR news, I'm Jason Rosenbaum and St. Louis. Ukrainian officials say a Russian attack on the southeastern Ukrainian city of Poblerod killed at least four people and injured more than 60 others. Photos posted online show shattered shops and burned out vehicles. Share prices have been falling across Asia in response to a sharp rise in oil prices.

Both Japan's Niki share average and South Korea's benchmark dropped by more than 2% in early trading. Brancrued futures around $108 a barrel with supplies. through the Strait of Hormuz, slowing to a trickle. In Yemen's Houthis, threatening tankers in the Red Sea. Here's the BBC star, Shini David, reporting. There's been the perfect storm, really. China is buying more oil because it's been drawing down its reserves, and Saudi Arabia has said it's cut production.

Petrol and diesel prices have been rising sharply. So the bond markets, too, have been upset as a result. So far, we should stress, inflation overall has been more tame than has been expected, but there is a risk now of it creeping higher. This is NPR. A search is ongoing in the Philippines for dozens of people missing from a burned out ferry that caught fire Wednesday.

Officials say 84 people remain missing. Rescuers had struggled to board the ferry due to thick smoke and extreme heat, but officials now say firefighters have entered the ferry more than a day after it caught fire. The artificial intelligence company Anthropics says it has blocked misuse of its AI models for malicious activities such as cyber attacks, surveillance, and research that could have led to biological weapons. Anthropics said Thursday that it found signs of misused

despite adding stronger safeguards in its latest models. On Tuesday, an anthropic researcher resigned over what he said was irresponsible AI development. Researchers say they found the most detailed feather from the age of dinosaurs inside a chunk of fossilized feces. And peers Ari Daniel reports. The discovery was made in the rocky badlands of Montana. The feather, alongside other feathers and a couple bone pieces, likely came from an aquatic swimming bird living some 66 million years ago. This bird was one of many that went extinct alongside the dinosaurs, says Jing May O'Connor of the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. Only one group of birds survives when the asteroid impact happens. The group that gave rise to modern birds. But what allowed them to make it

through the ensuing drop in global temperature. Perhaps they were better insulated, says O'Connor, based on her study of the newly found fossilized feathers. Other researchers dispute there's enough evidence. Ari Daniel, NPR News. I'm Giles Snyder. This is NPR.