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Justice Department. President Trump made the announcement Thursday. MPR is Ryan
Lucas. In his social media post announcing this Trump offered a couple of kind words for Bondi. He said she had done a tremendous job overseen what he called a massive crackdown on crime. He said quote, "We love Pam." And he said
“she'll be transitioning to a much needed and important new job in the private”
sector. Those are his exact words. He didn't say what that would be only that it would be announced later. And he also said that Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanch is going to step in as Acting Attorney General Bondi's house or follows months of scrutiny over the Justice Department's handling of the Epstein files and Bondi's handling of cases against President Trump's
perceived political enemies. Iran state media have confirmed that in a
Iranian desalination plant hit earlier in the war is still fully out of service. Experts say that attacks on Plansik create fresh water up becoming a weapon of wars impures Julia Simon reports. Desalination is the process of using electricity to separate sea water into a salty solution on one side and fresh water on the other across the Middle East. Countries rely heavily on the process.
Kothad and Bahrain get more than 90% of their drinking water from it. As climate change increases the severity of droughts, experts see desalination
“plants as a key adaptation tool. Since the recent war began, strikes have hit”
plants in Iran, as well as Kuwait and Bahrain. Earlier this week, President
Trump wrote on social media that the U.S. may strike more Iranian desalination
plants. Civilian infrastructure sites like water plants are banned as targets by international law. Julia Simon and Pierre News. The four astronaut Artemis who crew on track for their lunar fly by by early next week, their spacecraft left to orbit a Thursday after getting the OK to fire their capsule's engine. Astronauts on a 10 day mission and from macaroni and cheese to butternut squash,
they have 189 menu items to choose from. Central Florida Public Media is Marianne Somerall reports. After a successful launch from the Kennedy Space Center, the crew of four and their space cuisine will fly around the moon. The menu includes a wide variety of foods with things like spicy green beans, tropical fruit, salad, and
“maple cream cookies. In an asset video about eating in space, astronaut Christina”
Cook says foods you wouldn't even imagine being rehydrated are actually good. NASA's Norm Night, the director of the flight operations directorate, says NASA trucks each meal to ensure the crew's health. We have a food lab and we have folks at the Johnson Space Center tracking what they eat, the nutrition, the calories, it makes a difference.
Each crew member was able to help sample and craft their own menu preferences before launch. From PR news, I'm Marianne Somerall in Orlando. This is in PR. And Mars Parlaman has elected the general who asked it Nobel Laureate, Don Tsongsu Chi, as a country's new president. The Parlaman vote comes after an
election that analysts and opponents said was neither free nor fair. Nearly all childhood cancer deaths occur in low-end middle-income countries, that's according to new research. And PR's Gabriella Manuel reports that Sub-Sahera African has some of the worst mortality rates and their rising. Pediatric cancers are generally not preventable, both with good medical care they are
treatable. Still, in 2023, there were nearly 150,000 pediatric cancer deaths worldwide out of nearly 400,000 cases. Nikhil Baktan of St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital co-authored the study published in the Lancet. He says in the U.S. the vast majority of children with cancer survive, but not in parts of Africa and Asia. Less than 20% of children will survive, that disparity, that gap is one of the largest
in all of global health. That's because treating childhood cancer requires a well-functioning medical system. He says this research demonstrates where health systems need bolstering. Gabriella Manuel and PR news. The Trump administration is designating microplastics and pharmaceuticals as contaminants
in the nation's drinking water. The move was announced Thursday by the Environmental Protection Age and CEPA director Lee Zelden says it's a landmark move. However, the action does not require regulation and environmental groups say it comes even as the administration works to ease regulations on chemicals in the environment.
