Live from NPR news on Giles Snyder, a bit uncertainty about talks between the U.
that Trump administration is moving more troops to the Middle East, a contingent of Marines on the way to the region and paratroopers on the 82nd Airborne Division are preparing for deployment as Sympheor's Tom Bowman reports.
Looks like elements of the first brigade combat team known as the Devil Brigade will likely
head out in the coming days, and I'm hearing the old first go to Kuwait, and then the
“big question is, okay, where do they go from there?”
And again, everyone's talking about this carg island that's Iran's main oil facility at some 15 or so miles off the mainland. It has an airport so the 82nd troops could grab that airfield and maybe wait for other troops to come. President Trump repeated Wednesday that Iran is interested in cutting a deal, but Iran has
dismissed a ceasefire plan, and Iranian for a minister, Abbas Al-Rakshi said on state television that Iran has no intention of negotiating for now. To capital hills, Senate Democrats have blocked a Republican effort to fund the Department
of Homeland Security that included more money for ice enforcement.
And Pierre Sam Greenglass reports that negotiations at the end of 40 day long shutdown have stall. The measure would have funded all of DHS, including ice, except for the unit responsible for enforcement and removal operations. Just Democrats say they want to fund DHS agencies like TSA and FEMA, but are unwilling
to give ice more funding at all without policy changes to limit the tactics of its officers. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer says Republicans' latest offer included none of the demands they made after federal officers killed two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis.
“Key Senate Republicans have called Democrats counter "unserious" and say they're not sure”
where talks can go from here. Meanwhile, the acting TSA Administrator says 480 officers have quit since the shutdown began. Sam Greenglass and Pierre News Washington. The Justice Department is settling lawsuits at alleged that Biden administration pressured social media companies to "suppress speech."
And Pierre's carry Johnson reports that the cases had once reached the U.S. Supreme Court. The settlement would resolve allegations by Missouri and Louisiana that Biden-led agencies tried to shut down speech about the pandemic in the 2020 election. Conservatives argued they'd been "deplatform" by major social media sites for taking "on popular views."
The cases hinged on bitter divides over misinformation, disinformation, and censorship. The new agreement would bar the surge in general, the CDC, and the cybersecurity agency, from threatening social media companies to take down posts or face punishment.
“The attorney general, Pam Bondi, says the deals are "key steps and undoing abuses of”
the first amendment, especially against conservative media." The settlement still require judicial approval, Kerry Johnson and Pierre News, Washington. And you're listening to NPR News. Big tech has lost its second case over social media harm in two days. In Los Angeles, a jury wins day found meta and YouTube liable in a social media addiction
trial and awarded a 20-year-old woman's $6 million dollars.
In New Mexico, on Tuesday, a jury imposed a $375 million civil penalty on meta, finding that meta knowingly harmed the mental health of children and concealed what it knew about child sexual exploitation. According to New Research, drought could be increasing antibiotic resistance in soils. And Pierre's Jonathan Lamber reports that resistance seems to be ending up in some hospitals.
The antibiotic resistance is on the rise worldwide. Researchers typically point to human overuse as the main driver, but antibiotics and resistance to antibiotics ultimately trace back to bacteria in the soil. And soils around the world are becoming drier from climate change. To see if this might impact resistance levels, researchers analyze soils from around the
globe. They found that drier soils tended to have bacteria with more resistance genes. And some of these genes were exactly the same as those found in human infections at local hospitals. The study also found that hospitals in drier areas tended to have more resistant infections,
a problem that could worsen with climate change. The researchers published in the journal Nature of Microbiology, Jonathan Lambert and Pierre News. Following advances on Wall Street stocks, mostly lower in Asia, Japan's NECA is given up additional gains in Thursday trading and is now trading lower.
I'm Jail Snyder, this is NPR News.
