NPR News: 07-17-2026 12PM EDT

Lakshmi Singh· Host0:01

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. President Trump asserts voting systems are vulnerable to tampering and declassified documents that he says supports his claims. The Republican leader presented no fresh evidence, choosing instead to revisit twenty-twenty and the election loss he's blamed on fraud, contrary to what state elections officials and courts have found. NPR's Miles Parks on allegations Trump's already raised, addressing his speech to the nation last night.

Miles Parks0:34

Our team at NPR w- started looking through all of these documents the White House published, and it's not really clear what is actually new here that impacts our understanding of the security of America's elections. I talked with Adrian Fontes after the speech. He's Ame-- Arizona's top voting official. He's a Democrat. Here's how he described it.

Adrian Fontes· Soundbite0:53

I kind of felt a little bit cheated. I was expecting some kind of delicious bombshell that we might be able to investigate, but instead I got a, a rehash of the same grievance.

Miles Parks1:03

Fontes was struck by how closely all these classified documents aligned with what was already public about, uh, the twenty-twenty election.

Lakshmi Singh· Host1:10

NPR's Miles Parks reporting. An air quality health alert is in effect ahead of this weekend's World Cup final. NPR's William Jones reports.

William Jones1:20

With a thick haze blanketing the New York region, officials have been urging residents to stay indoors if they can. That didn't stop the Spanish team from training outdoors on Thursday.