Six minutes of news from around the nation.

National Trust pressed ahead with suit against Trump's $400M White House ballroom; Indiana SNAP work rules could cut food aid; Arizona measles outbreak prompts surveillance toolkit; IL lawmakers debate fixes to rising eviction rates and housing turmoil.

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The Public News Service Daily Newscast, April 28, 2026.

I'm Mike Clifford.

The National Trust for Historic Preservation is moving forward with their lawsuit against President Trump's planned $400 million White House ballroom, declining a request by the Department of Justice to withdraw the complaint following the shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday.

The AP notes Trump and other conservatives made a renewed push for the ballroom in the wake of Saturday's media dinner shooting argued it exposed the difficulties in ensuring presidential security at large events outside the White House grounds.

Meantime, Indiana hunger advocates warn new federal SNAP work rules could push some Hoosiers off food assistance without increasing employment.

Our Joe Ulory has more.

A new analysis from the Hamilton Project finds stricter work requirements reduce participation more than they boost jobs.

Emily Weikert-Briant with Feeding Indiana's Hungary says thousands of Hoosiers could face new reporting rules tied to work hours.

We understand will impact about 12,000 Hoosiers who will now have new reporting requirements tied to their work hours.

Supporters say work rules promote employment and accountability.

Opponents say many recipients already work and face unstable hours.

And a recent measles outbreak in Arizona has prompted state health officials to up their immunization efforts.

They've created a measles surveillance toolkit for doctors to know the right questions to ask about how to proceed in potentially positive cases.

Arizona has reported 276 confirmed measles cases since August of last year, nearly all of which occurred in people who were not vaccinated.

Department of Health Services Vaccine Program Manager Liam Hicks says Arizona encourages people to get the measles immunization and cites history as evidence that the treatment is effective.

The number one tool in our toolkit for preventing measles is the vaccine.

One dose is 93 percent effective and two doses is 97 percent effective.

So it's the best way to protect oneself and your community.

I'm Mark Moran.

Next to Illinois, where lawmakers are considering how to best address the state's housing crisis as evictions and scarcity continue to rise.

Terry Ross with Illinois Legal Aid Online says tenants are often unfamiliar with what defenses and resources are available to them.

And those in rural and suburban areas face unique challenges.

One of the things that gets downplayed as an option is just reaching out to the property manager to try to arrange the payment plan or something else.

Just that negotiation can go a long way to keeping someone housed.

By some accounts, more than 50,000 eviction filings are made each year in Illinois.

Nearly half result in renters being forced out.

This is Public News Service.

Native Americans on the Western Great Plains were making and tossing dice 6,000 years before people in Africa, Asia, and Europe.

That's according to new research from Colorado State University.

Games of chance are considered to be the intellectual precursor to probability theory, statistics, and scientific thinking.

Report author and PhD student Robert Madden says while trading relationships typically developed over many years, playing dice helped create trust on the spot.

This allowed people that didn't know each other well to come together because they all understood the game and exchange goods on a very fast basis without the need for those long-term relationships.

The earliest examples of dice were found at archaeological sites in Colorado, New Mexico, and Wyoming, dating back 12,000 years to the late Pleistocene Folsom period.

I'm Eric Galatas.

And today is Workers' Memorial Day, and labor groups are honoring the 38 Oregon workers who died on the job within the last year.

The day also commemorates the enactment of the Occupational Safety and Health Act, or OSHA, which guarantees the right to a safe workplace.

Graham Treanor, president of the Oregon Labor Federation, AFL-CIO, says every day in the U.S., more than 380 workers are killed due to preventable, dangerous working conditions.

The thought that we've solved all of the workplace safety and health issues couldn't be further from the truth.

This day is a really important day each year to remember how much work we still have to do, no matter what those numbers in a state or across the country look like.

Although no year has gone by without workplace fatalities yet, Traynor praises Oregon for making workers safer.

In recent years, Oregon has passed laws to protect health care workers from violence, protect people working outside from extreme heat, and increase penalties for OSHA violations.

I'm Isobel Charle.

Finally, as legal challenges mount against the Trump administration's repeal of the 2009 endangerment finding and motor vehicle emission standards, the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy has joined a national lawsuit arguing the change places undue harm to people in West Virginia.

The endangerment finding provides a scientific determination that greenhouse gases endanger public health.

This baseline has provided legal justification for federal action on air pollution, explains Olivia Miller, Interim Director for West Virginia Highlands Conservancy.

That is why we joined this case.

The rollback has no basis in law or science and reality.

The EPA cannot walk away from its responsibility to protect public health.

Vehicle emissions are the largest sources of greenhouse emissions in the country, according to federal data.

This is Nadia Ramlagan for West Virginia News Service.

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