Live from MPR News, I'm Jial Snyder, Attorney General Pam Bondi is out at the...
after just 14 months on the job.
“President Trump announced the shake up and the post on social media impures Ryan Lucas”
reports. In a post online, Trump called Bondi a great American patriot and loyal friend who oversaw what he called a massive crackdown on crime. But Bondi had come under bipartisan criticism for a handling of the files related to convicted and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
She's also been pressed by Trump to aggressively go after the president's perceived political enemies. And under Bondi's leadership, the Justice Department has investigated and even prosecuted some of Trump's critics. But those cases have foundered in court or before-grandjuries.
Now Bondi is out and Trump says Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanch, a former personal lawyer
for Trump, will take over leading the department for now on an acting basis. Ryan Lucas and PR News, Washington defense secretary Pete Hegg Seth has forced out the
“army's top general army chief of staff general Randy George was expected to remain in his”
post for another year and a half. But a Pentagon spokesman says George is retiring, effective immediately, no reason was given. In an out-deleted video on the White House YouTube page, President Trump said the government cannot fund programs like Medicare and Child Care, because of the war with Iran. And PR's deepest shiver of reports of video was quickly taken down as post-show public
opinions souring over the economic impacts of the war. Trump gave remarks at an Easter event at the White House on Wednesday. It was close to the press, but the video was streamed live on the White House YouTube page. The president was candid in his remarks about Iran and said it was the federal government's
job to take care of military security, not daycare. Because the United States can't take care of the care. That has to be up to a state. We can't take care of the care. The war is now in its fifth week.
“The White House did not respond to request for comment on why the video of Trump's speech”
was deleted. Deepish Ivaram and PR news. President Trump has signed an executive order imposing a 100% tariff on branded pharmaceuticals imported into the U.S., the tariff would be imposed on companies that have not agreed to pricing deals, or have not committed to making their products domestically.
He still have months to negotiate before the tariff's kick in. NASA's Artemis 2 mission with its crew for astronauts now bound for the moon, the Orion spacecraft called integrity left to Earth or a bit Thursday after the astronauts fired up its engine for five minutes, 50 seconds. Integrity looks like a good burn, we're confirming.
The astronauts now on track for a lunar fly by early next week by the time they return to Earth. The astronauts will have broken the human space flight distance record set in 1970 by Apollo 13. You're listening to MPR news.
A proposal earlier this year by a south-eastern New Mexico lawmaker for border counties in the state to become a part of Texas was largely taken as an internet joke, but Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrell's recently released his list of priorities, calling for studying the implications. Now, many Texans are asking if this is really possible.
Brad Bird from Memorization, KTTZ and Texas spoke to a constitutional lawyer about the idea. Kenneth Williams is a professor of civil rights and constitutional law at Texas Tech University, and he says theoretically it could happen. The Constitution does provide for that occurrence, however, for that to happen, there would have to be the consent of both legislatures, Texas, and the Mexico, and also the consent
of Congress. Before the proposal could even reach New Mexico, legislators, however, it would require a petition to call for an election and a vote of approval for the separation by voters in the affected counties. I'm Brad Bird in Lubbock.
When the master's golf tournament gets underway in Georgia next week, it will be without former champions, Phil Nicholson and Tiger Woods.
First time, that's happened in more than 30 years.
Mikkelson announces that he will not compete saying his family is navigating a personal health matter. Wood said this week, he is taking an indefinite leave from golf following his arrest in Florida on suspicion of driving under the influence. Will global oil prices surging amid the Iran War stocks in Asia, mostly lower, however,
shares in Japan and South Korea are advancing Wall Street will be closed for good Friday. [BLANK_AUDIO]
