"Lie from NPR News," I'm Lakshmi saying.
More than 30 years after the Mexican-American civil rights and labor leaders hit on Travis
“died, several women are publicly accusing him of child sexual abuse, assault, and rape.”
The New York Times has published the findings of an investigation in which a number of women
identified in the article have gone on the record for the first time in accusing the revered
civil rights icon of sex crimes. They include one of his most prominent allies, Dolores Wethu. She tells a Times that he forced himself on her twice, and that both times she became pregnant. Wethu was an adult at the time. The paper says it was able to corroborate two women's accounts of child molestation and rape.
The Times conducted interviews with more than 60 people, including Travis' top AIDS, relatives, and former members of the United Farm Workers' Chavez co-founded. The Senate's holding a confirmation hearing for President Trump's nominee to lead the Department of Homeland Security. Senator Mark Wayne Mullen says he wants to study the DHS, but the hearing began on shaky
ground. Rand Paul, the chair of the Senate Committee that decides whether to advance Mullen's nomination of the full Senate, confronted Mullen over past remarks in question his temperament. Mullen fired back.
“"Sorry, I think there's everybody in this room knows that I'm very blunt and direct”
to the point. And if I have something to say, I'll say it directly to your face. If you recall, back in your back in my house days, we actually did at this conversation because remarks that I've made." Iran's threatening attacks on oil and gas infrastructure in Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the
United Arab Emirates, that according to Iranian state media, which also reported earlier today that facilities associated with Iran's offshore South Park's natural gas field came under attack today. This part of the war, Qatar shares the gas field with Iran and blamed Israel for the strike. In the U.S., the Federal Reserve is expected to hold its benchmark interest rates steady
today. And Pierre Scott Horsley reports a Fed, this cop between rising energy prices and a softening job market. The price of gasoline and diesel fuel has jumped sharply since the U.S. launched its attack on Iran two and a half weeks ago, even before the war began, inflation was running stubbornly
higher than the Fed's target. That makes it harder for the central bank to cut interest rates even as the job market shows signs of needing more support. Over the last six months, the U.S. economies added virtually no jobs. Jerome Powell is near in the end of his term as Fed Chairman, but the timetable for confirming
a successor is up in the air.
“A key Republican senator has promised a block confirmation of President Trump's nominee,”
Kevin Worsh, until the Justice Department ends its criminal pro with the central bank. Scott Horsley, in Pierre News, Washington. The Dow Jones industrial averages down 436 points are nearly 1%, at 46,558. From Washington, this is NPR News. While historic storms dropped heavy amounts of snow over the upper Midwest, people in the
southwest are preparing for more record-breaking heat, Daniel Montaño, of Mauritian K.U. and M. reports. The temperature in Albuquerque is expected to go to 91 by Saturday, almost two months earlier
than the typical first 90 degree day, that's Clay Anderson, Senior Forecaster at the National Weather
Service. Even though the highs or numbers New Mexicans are used to seeing every summer, Anderson says temperatures that get this high this quickly, especially this early in the year, could catch people off guard before the body has had time to become acclimated to the heat. For the first time, Venezuela won the World Baseball Classic last night, beating the U.S.
3 to 2. Here's NPR's Becky Sullivan. First, Venezuela toppled the defending champs to Japan, then they ended Italy's central run. The U.S. lineup should have been formidable, stacked with star sluggers from Aaron Judge
to Kyle Schwarber. Yet the Americans were shut out for seven innings, before finally, with two outs in the bottom of the eighth, Bryce Harper hit a two run home or to tie it up. It might have been a hero moment, but it wasn't. Minutes later, the top of the ninth of Venezuela's answered with Eugenio Suarez RBI double
to center-left to retake the lead three to two. From second-based Suarez raised his hands into the sky and yelled a thankful prayer.
Seven and a half million people watched the semi-final between the U.S. and the Dominican
Republic, ratings for the final are expected to be even higher. Becky Sullivan and PR News. The Dow's down more than 400 points at 46,580, you're listening to and PR.
