"Li," from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi, saying.
He did start today to the Senate confirmation hearing for Senator Mark Wayne Mullin, President
“Trump's nominee for Secretary of Homeland Security.”
NPR's Claudia Gidesales reports the Oklahoma Republican-Face bipartisan outrage from committee members for his past controversial remarks. Senate Homeland Security and governmental affairs committee chairman Rand Paul confronted Mullin for calling him a quote "freaking snake" and accused Mullin of celebrating a 2017 physical attack on Paul.
"To know that you supported the felonious violent attack on me from behind." "I did not say I supported it. I said I understood it. There's a difference." "I was following you."
"By calling that means you really didn't approve of it.
Just completely understand it." Mullin argued the two could have their differences, but said he'd bring a new piece of
“mind to DHS, Democrats also took Mullin to task for his comments, blaming two U.S. citizens”
were in a good and Alex-pretty for their deaths at the hands of immigration agents. Mullin said he should have retracted those statements. "Clarity, Salis, in beer news," the Capitol. "We've just learned the Federal Reserve is leaving its benchmark interest rate unchanged. The central bank is trying to navigate a challenging economy, the job market, softening
and stubborn inflation could be made worse by wartime spike in energy prices. Mullmakers are questioning the nation's top intelligence chiefs about the information the Trump administration had. Before I went to war with Iran nearly three weeks ago, Senator John Osaw questioned the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard about the administration's latest assessment
that Iran posed an imminent threat months after a U.S. strike on Iranian targets." "That opening statement has submitted to the committee an advance of this hearing stated that as a result of last summer's air strikes, quote, Iran's nuclear enrichment program was obliterated and, quote, correct?" "It's right."
“" Meanwhile, President Trump is temporarily lifting the Jones Act as his administration”
attempts to lower gas prices, which have increased during the U.S. is war with Iran, and PRSD Peshivron reports a law limits domestic shipping routes to just U.S. vessels." Trump announced a 60-day pause on the Jones Act. That means domestic shipping routes can now be utilized by ships built and operated outside the U.S.
decision comes as gas prices have shot up in the aftermath of the U.S. and Israel's war on Iran. High prices remain a top-of-mind concern for voters in the midterm elections later this year, which are expected to be close in determining control of Congress. Deep Shiveram and PR news the White House.
"Israel has killed another member of Iran's leadership intelligence minister Ismail Cuttib.
He is among at least nine of Iran's most powerful figures is really forced to say they
have assassinated since the start of the war more than through two weeks to go. Iran's Supreme Leader was killed on the first day of U.S. Israel strikes on Iran." At last, check on Wall Street, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 422 points, your listening to, and PR news. The governor of New Mexico has signed the state's annual budget last week, which included
$630,000 for the creation of a medical, silent cyber-treatment equity fund New Mexico is a first state in the country to allocate funds that'll ensure residents can receive treatment no matter their income. Member Station KU and M's Jeanette Dideos has the tales. Sillocybin is a type of psychedelic and psychoactive compounds that temporarily alters
a person's senses. How we perceive our environment, how we're perceiving time, our emotional state. This Denali Wilson, director of strategic support at the Healing Advocacy Fund. She says "Sillocybin can be used for post-traumatic stress, treatment resistant depression, substance use disorder, and end-of-life care needs."
Wilson says the New Mexico legislature laid the groundwork for the equity fund by establishing the New Mexico Medical Sillocybin Act in 2025, which created the state-regulated therapy program. The state's medical Sillocybin program will launch at the end of this year. For NPR News, I'm Jeanette Dideos in Albuquerque.
NASA astronauts have been conducting a spacewalk outside the International Space Station today. The spacewalk was previously scheduled in January, but those plans were scrubbed when a member of SpaceX crew 11 mission experienced a medical issue and the entire team was evacuated back to Earth.
The Dow is down more than 400 points, or more than 3/4 of a percent, the SMP is down half a percent. NASA has also down half a percent or 114 points, you're listening to NPR News.
