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European Union leaders are speaking out against President Trump's decision to temporarily
“allow Russian oil exports to help ease prices amid the war in Iran.”
Terry Schultz reports the move comes after the other six countries in the G7, or Washington, to keep the curbs in place. >> European Council President Antonio Costa calls it very concerning that President Trump has decided unilaterally to let Russia sell oil that's been restricted from the international market due to Moscow's war on Ukraine.
Costa says it's a matter of European security that the Kremlin not have more money to fund its war. European Commission spokesperson Shavad Megari confirms the EU sanctions will remain. >> Russia should absolutely not benefit from the war on Iran. >> The European Commission says it calculates that Moscow's already been earning an extra $150
million U.S. dollars per day since U.S. Israeli strikes on Iran began.
On a visit to Norway, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said it's wrong to ease sanctions on Russia for any reason.
“For NPR News, I'm Terry Schultz in Oslo.”
>> Thousands of airport TSA officers missed their first full paycheck on Friday. They've been working without pay for nearly a month during a partial government shutdown tied to the Trump administration's immigration crackdown policies, and PR's Joel Rose reports. TSA security officers live paycheck to paycheck, and their struggling says Johnny Jones. He's the secretary treasurer of the American Federation of Government Employees Council 100.
The union that represents about 45,000 TSA officers nationwide. >> They're panicking, they're scared, they're afraid, and they don't know what they're going to do. They're just flat on not paying their bills because they don't have any money. >> The Trump administration is blaming this missed paycheck on Democrats, who are refusing
to approve DHS's budget, unless Republicans and the White House agree on change to how immigration officers operate after the deficit of two American citizens in Minnesota. Joel Rose and PR News, Washington. >> A federal judge in Washington has blocked a subpoena tied to congressional testimony from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell about renovations at a Fed building.
The ruling is a setback for U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, Janine Piro, who launched the probe. This judge has put himself at the entrance door to the grand jury, slamming that door shut, irrespective of the legal process, and thus preventing the grand jury from doing the work that it does.
>> In his ruling, Judge James Bozberg said there's no evidence that Fed Chairman Jerome Powell committed any crime, adding the only apparent fence was "displeasing President Trump," Trump has repeatedly criticized Powell for not lowering interest rates. >> Listening to NPR News from Washington, Hawaii is under a state of emergency as heavy rain and strong winds battered the islands, more than 100,000 customers have lost power,
many on the state's most populous island Oahu. For castor-say, some areas could see up to a foot and a half of rain. The emergency order has closed many state, city, and county offices, along with several school districts. Deep pocketed cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence superpacks are pumping tens of millions
of dollars into wide open democratic congressional primaries in Illinois.
>> The crypto industry funded superpack fair shake has spent over three million dollars
in TV ads and mailers attacking two state legislators running for house seats, who voted last year to give Illinois regulatory power over cryptocurrency. States and in our Robert Peters is one of them. >> They're banking on the fact that they have so much money that they could flood the zone with misinformation to try to convince the voter that the Bernie Sanders back candidate
is somehow the whole incorporation. >> Think big, a group aligned with AI interests has laid out over a million dollars to pop up Peters opponent Jesse Jackson Jr. Fennpire News, I'm Maui Ikban Springfield, Illinois. >> Flights are getting back to normal at several major airports in the Washington DC area.
Officials issued a temporary ground stop on Friday after a strong chemical smell was reported at a federal aviation administration facility in northern Virginia. This is NPR News.
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