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President Trump says he's declaring a national emergency to pay TSA agents who've been working without pay during the 41-day shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security. Congress has been deadlocked in a funding fight as wait times drag on at airports up to 40-50% of TSA employees at some airports have called out of work, more than 480 TSA agents have quit Democrats have been holding out for a deal to rain in President Trump's immigration
crackdowns.
President Trump held his first public cabinet meeting today since the start of the war
“against Iran as NPR's Tamra key reports.”
It's unclear whether a diplomatic solution is possible. Earlier this week, Trump teased that Iran had given him a present. Now he's saying what it was. They said to show you the fact that we're real and solid and we're there. We're going to let you have eight boats of eight boats, eight big boats of all.
This was two days ago. Then Trump said he saw on the news that the tankers had been allowed to pass through the straight of Hormuz unharmed. And I said, well, I guess we'll deal with the right people.
Trump's mid-East on-voice Steve Woodcock said U.S. negotiators presented a 15-point action
list that could form a framework for a peace deal. Iranian state TV says Tehran does not want a temporary pause. Tamra key and PR news the White House.
“A federal judge in California has blocked the Trump administration's ban on the AI company”
and Thropic for now, saying the administration appeared to be out to punish the company. And PR's John Ruich reports. The case stems from a dispute between anthropic and the Pentagon over how the military can use the company's artificial intelligence. The topic doesn't want it used for autonomous weapons or mass surveillance of Americans.
The Pentagon says it's up to the military, not the company, to decide how to use a product. Last month, President Trump ordered all government agencies to stop using Anthropic. And the Pentagon later labelled the firm a supply chain risk. That's a designation that's been reserved for foreign adversaries. Now a federal judge in Northern California, Judge Rita F. Lin, says the supply chain risk
label was likely contrary to law. And she says a fixing that label to US company for expressing disagreement with the government was Orwellian, John Ruich and PR news.
“Former Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro and his wife were back in a New York courtroom”
today as they seek to have their drug trafficking indictments thrown out over a geopolitical dispute over legal fees. At issue is whether the US can continue blocking Maduro from using Venezuelan government
funds to pay his legal costs. The hearing was the first time Maduro and his wife has
appeared in court since January. They have declared their innocence. US stocks had their worst day since the war with Iran started as doubt took over Wall Street about a possible end to the conflict the S&P 500 fell nearly one and three quarters per cent. This is NPR news from Washington. Wall Street bonuses hit a new record in 2025. His profits surged New York state's com-troller reported the average bonus rose to $247,000
up 6% from 2024. Ohio Democratic Congresswoman Joyce Bady is asking a federal court to force the Trump administration to stop calling the Kennedy Center the Trump Kennedy Center and appears on a Stasiath Silcus reports. Bady filed a motion asking a federal circuit court judge to demand Trump and the rest of the Arts Complex's current board and staff stop calling it the Trump Kennedy Center.
In the filing, Bady's attorneys argue the new name directly contradicts Congressional legislation, which designated the Arts Center as a living memorial to late President John F. Kennedy. It's part of a larger suit, Bady filed in December against Trump and many members of the Center's board. In the statement NPR, a press representative for the center wrote quote, "We're confident the court will uphold the board's decision on the name change and the
desperately needed renovations which will continue as scheduled." The center is planned to be closed in July for renovations that are expected to last two years. Anis azid silcus and beer news, New York. A woman from Youngstown, Ohio, has been reunited with her dog nine years after he went missing, according to Fox 8 and Cleveland, the shit soon named Soleil vanished in 2017, after stepping outside for a routine bathroom break. Her granddaughter sent her a Facebook post of
a dog with a familiar face at the local animal shelter, old pictures confirmed it and they were reunited. She says Soleil remembered everything, leading her on their old walking path near their home. This is NPR News. We started making him bed in 10 years ago, but the stories in our archive are as relevant as ever, like this series about President Trump from 2017. He hustled himself with TV show. He hustled himself a gig. I continued to go wow. To better understand how we got here,
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