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is out of her job.
“NPR's Ryan Lucas says President Trump announced the news yesterday.”
"In a post-on line, 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 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. Iran continues to fire at neighboring countries and its damaged a desalination plan today in Kuwait.
But Iran's state media have confirmed one of its own desalination plans is still fully out
of service. Iran says it was hit by an air strike. And because Julius Simon reports experts say a tax on plans to create fresh water are increasingly becoming a weapon of war. 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. God thought and Bahrain get more than 90% of their drinking water from it.
“As climate change increases the severity of droughts, experts see desalination plans 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, Julius Simon and Pyrenees. Dependagon and other defendants are appealing a federal judge's ruling that temporarily blocks a federal black list of the AI company Anthropic. Empires John Ruich reports there is a dispute over how the U.S. military can use AI.
Anthropic says it does not want its AI used for autonomous weapons or mass surveillance of Americans. The Pentagon says it's up to the military to decide how to use the technology, not the company. It labeled Anthropic a supply chain risk, and President Trump ordered federal agencies
to stop using its products.
“A federal judge in San Francisco last week ordered a preliminary injunction against”
the moves. She said the measures do not appear directed at the government's stated national security interests and instead looked like punishment. The Pentagon and other defendants argued in court that Anthropic's actions rendered it untrustworthy.
John Ruich and PR News. Wall Street is closed today. This is for the Christian observance of Good Friday. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. The Labor Department says 178,000 new jobs were created in March.
That's a lot larger than the 60,000 jobs that economists had predicted. President Trump says Vice President J.D. Vance is the new "Fraud ZAR", writing online this morning. Trump says Vance will focus on taxpayer fraud in democratic states. Trump is claiming if his effort is successful he'll be able to balance the federal government
budget. Trump also says raids have started in LA, but didn't explain what he meant. Nearly all childhood cancer deaths occur in low-end middle-income countries according to new research. And PR's Gabriella Emmanuel reports, sub-Saharan Africa, has some of the worst mortality
rates and their rising. The electric cancers are generally not preventable, but 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 Bakton 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. More 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 Emmanuel and PR news. Again, Wall Street is closed today in observance of good Friday.
I'm Corva Coleman and PR News.
