NPR News: 04-01-2025 8AM EDT

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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Korva Coleman. Voters in Wisconsin are going to the polls today to fill an open seat on the State Supreme Court. From member station WUWN, Maayan Silver has more.

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This election has implications for the future of abortion access, labor rights, voting rights and redistricting in the state. But it's also become a temperature check on how voters feel about President Trump and billionaire Elon Musk. The two have infused themselves in this race, with endorsements and millions of dollars, as Democrats try to harness anger among their base over Musk and Trump's actions the past two months.

Korva Coleman· Host0:51

Maayan Silver reporting. Liberal donor George Soros has donated $2 million to Wisconsin Democrats who are supporting the liberal candidate. President Trump says the search for missing American journalist Austin Tice continues. NPR's Franco Ordoñez reports Tice disappeared in Syria nearly 13 years ago.

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Austin Tice is an award-winning freelance journalist and Marine veteran. He wrote for the Washington Post, McClatchy Newspapers and other U.S.-based outlets before he was captured in Syria in 2012. Speaking from the Oval Office, President Trump said there's been virtually no sign of him.

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It's just a lot of dead ends.