Trump Mail-In Ballot Fight; Paris Knife Attack; Records Measles Cases; Savannah Guthrie’s New Plea; Millennials Making Minivans Cool Again

**Mosheh Oinounou** (0:00)
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**Jill Wagner** (0:53)
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**Mosheh Oinounou** (2:02)
Hey everybody, it is Tuesday, July 28th. You're listening to the Monews podcast. I'm Moshe Oinounou.

**Jill Wagner** (2:08)
And I'm Jill Wagner. This is the place where we bring you just the facts.

**Mosheh Oinounou** (2:12)
And where we read all the news and read between the lines so you don't have to in between naps and diaper changes and all of that, Jill.
It's so interesting. I've realized even a couple of years removed with a young toddler, removed from infancy, like how many things you sort of block out from those first few months, that I'm sort of back in it. I was like, oh yeah.

**Jill Wagner** (2:37)
I think it's biology because I don't think any of us would ever do it again if we remember what it was actually like.

**Mosheh Oinounou** (2:44)
Right. You suddenly feel nostalgia and then you're like, oh my God, I remember all the warm baby cuddles, etc. But you forgot the 24-7 nature. The 24-7 nature. But it's totally worth it. It's totally worth it, everybody.

**Jill Wagner** (2:58)
All right. Let's get some headlines here. Less than 100 days until the midterms, the Trump Administration is asking the Supreme Court to allow mail-in ballot restrictions.

**Mosheh Oinounou** (3:09)
Yeah. This is going to be the latest big fight as we head into the midterms here and the president is making a big push on new limits.

**Jill Wagner** (3:17)
Speaking of politics, when is Senator Mitch McConnell returning to the Senate? A health update on Monday, but still no real answers.

**Mosheh Oinounou** (3:26)
A lot of skepticism, Jill. Only two photos in two months.

**Jill Wagner** (3:30)
Today begins two days of funeral services for the late Senator Lindsey Graham starting in Washington DC.

**Mosheh Oinounou** (3:38)
A number of his closest friends including foreign leaders in Town Fork.

**Jill Wagner** (3:41)
Staying with politics, things not looking great for either party ahead of the midterms.

**Mosheh Oinounou** (3:47)
Yeah, there's stories out about how Republicans are seeing a lack of enthusiasm among their core voters. No big surprise there, but also Democrats aren't very popular themselves. We'll tell you what the latest numbers say.

**Jill Wagner** (3:58)
Overseas another suspected terror attack. This time it was a knife attack in Paris.

**Mosheh Oinounou** (4:03)
And we'll tell you about the fallout in Germany after the attack on the pride celebration in Berlin over the weekend.

**Jill Wagner** (4:09)
Back here in the US in health news, measles cases hit a 35 year high in 2026 and it's only July and a new video from today's show host Savannah Guthrie.