Pushback On Trump's Russia Policy, Competitive Midterm Races, DOJ Noncitizen Voting

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1Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is taking his concerns about delayed U.S. weapons and intelligence directly to Congress as lawmakers in both parties question President Trump’s approach to Russia.<br>Republicans are spending heavily to defend traditionally conservative territory as Democrats expand the midterm map two weeks before Election Day.<br>The Justice Department has charged 28 California voters it says are noncitizens while asking a federal judge to stop thousands of other ballots from being counted.<br/><br/><em>Want more analysis of the most important news of the day, plus a little fun? </em><a href="https://www.npr.org/newsletter/news"target="_blank" >Subscribe</a><em> to the Up First newsletter.</em><br>Support public media with NPR+ and enjoy perks for over 25 podcasts like this one. This show’s perks include sponsor-free listening. Learn more at <a href="http://plus.npr.org/"target="_blank" >plus.npr.org</a>.<br/><br/>Today’s episode of Up First was edited by Rebekah Metzler, Megan Pratz, Shannon Bond, Mohamad ElBardicy and Alice Woelfle.<br/><br/>It was produced by Iman Maani and Nia Dumas.<br/><br/>Our director is Christopher Thomas.<br/><br/>We get engineering support from Carleigh Strange.<br/><br/>Our technical director is Zac Coleman.<br/><br/>And our Supervising Senior Producer is Vince Pearson.<br/><br/>(0:00) Introduction<br>(1:54) Trump Russia Ukraine<br>(5:36) Midterm Latest<br>(9:20) CA DOJ Election Feud<br/><br/>See <a href="https://pcm.adswizz.com">pcm.adswizz.com</a> for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.npr.org/about-npr/179878450/privacy-policy">NPR Privacy Policy</a>