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Iran, the Trump administration is moving more troops to the Middle East, a contingent
“to Marines on their way to the region and paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division”
or Preparing for Deployment, as Empire's Tom Bowman reports.
"It 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 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 foreign minister Abbas Araqqi said on state television that Iran has no intention of negotiating for now. As a warning, Iran led by the U.S. and Israel near so one month mark, conservatives across
“the country are gathering at CPAC that conservative convention is being held near Dallas”
Fort Worth in Texas.
The Texas Newsrooms Lays cany has more.
While the war is in the focus of the convention, many guests can be seen walking around with signs showing their support for America's involvement in the fight overseas. Iran shafits a retired resident that lives in Arlington says President Trump has his full support with the war. "They can't be negotiated with or worked with in any way, but I trust Trump's ability
to handle this. So I, whatever he does, I'm going to be for." The conference goes through Saturday, scheduled speakers include Steve Bannon, and Department of Education Secretary Linda McMahon, for NPR News, I'm Blaise Gainy, and great-buying. "The White House has voiced a mis-a deadline for naming a new leader at the nation-stop
public health agency.
“And Pierce Pink Long reports that leaves a center's for disease control and prevention”
in an unusual position." Wednesday marks two hundred ten days since the last CDC director was fired. According to the federal vacancies at, "That's the limit for how long the role can be filled in an acting capacity by temps." The vacancies act is intended to prevent a president from circumventing the Senate confirmation
process. Starting Thursday, the CDC's interim leader, Dr. Jay Batacharya, will no longer be the official acting director, but at a CDC all-staff meeting, he said he would continue acting in the capacity as director. A spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services says Batacharya will continue
to perform the delegable duties of the CDC director, while the Health Secretary evaluates candidates for the permanent CDC role. Pink Long and PR News. "This is NPR." Big Tech has lost its second case over social media harm in two days, in Los Angeles, a jury
Wednesday found Batacharya and YouTube liable in a social media addiction trial and awarded
a 20-year-old woman $6 million.
In New Mexico, on Tuesday, a jury imposed a $375 million civil penalty on Batach, finding that meta, knowingly harmed the mental health of children, and concealed what it knew about child sexual exploitation. Today's the first of nine equal pay days throughout the year, the symbolic day marks how far into the new year women have to work in order to make what men earn the previous year.
And PR's angry issue reports that comes a day later this year. For the second year in a row, women have lost ground. Women working full-time year-round earn 81 cents for every dollar men earn. That's down three cents over the past couple years. Now the latest data compiled by the Census Bureau is actually from 2024, so the widening
of the gender wage gap can't be explained by anything that's happened since President Trump returned to office. And in fact, former President Biden was supportive of pay equity efforts. The Census Bureau did find was that the median wage for men increased by just over three and a half percent, while women's wages remain stagnant.
The gender pay gap is even wider for women of color. Black women's equal pay day will be marked in July, Latina equal pay day in October, and Reissue and PR news. Asian stocks have mostly lost ground and Thursday trading South Korean shares let the way lower down 3.2%.
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