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President Trump is saying he did not think an image he posted of himself with light coming
“from his hands, healing a man in a hospital bed, depicted him as Jesus Christ.”
As NPR's Daniel Critslavin tells us that now deleted post came after the president attacked Pope Leo the 14th in another lengthy social media post. Some tells members of the media that he did post the apparently AI-generated image but didn't think it depicted him as Jesus. The post was deleted today after many including Trump supporters criticized the imagery.
Trump also said he won't apologize to Pope Leo after lashing out at the pontiff for his comments criticizing the war in Iran. Post Leo called the president's threats last week to destroy Iranian civilization unacceptable. Trump meanwhile called Pope Leo week on crime.
Daniel Kurtzlavin and PR News the White House.
A day after he dropped out of the race for California Governor, the House Ethics Committee says it's now investigating sexual misconduct allegations against democratic congressmen Eric Swallow.
“Even for a reporter Nicholas Wu looks at the Democrats' future in Congress.”
We're seeing right now are really both parties trying to do the math and move for a little bit to see what will happen with other expulsion resolutions because a number of lawmakers have called for a follow-up step down and said they would vote to explain. But this also means that an expulsion resolution is likely to be brought up against congressmen Tony Gonzalez of Texas.
He's a Republican.
He's also been accused of sexual misconduct with his staff and we're really seeing the
beginnings of quite an uproar in the House over lawmakers really trying to police their own ranks. Nicholas Wu speaking with NPR is here and now Russia says it respects the choice of voters in Hungary following Sunday's closely watched elections. The race saw the Kremlin's longtime ally Victor Orban soundly defeated from Moscow
and Piers Charles Mane's reports.
“Simon spokesman Dimitri Pascov said Russia hoped to maintain pragmatic ties with Hungary's”
new political leadership but would wait to see how events developed. Pascov noted that Hungary's next prime minister, Peter Majarne, has already pledged to engage with Russia. And with Majarne said it was unavoidable given Hungary's geography and continued reliance on Russian energy exports.
Still the result of Hungary's election was widely seen as a blow to Kremlin interests. Now outgoing prime minister, Victor Orban, as long served as Moscow's closest ally in the European Union, Orban is also repeatedly undermined EU support for Ukraine amid Russia's ongoing invasion of its neighbor. Charles Mane's impure news, Moscow.
From Washington, this is NPR News. A federal prosecutor says as 16-year-old Florida boy will be tried as an adult, on charges of aggravated sexual abuse and murder at a carnival cruise ship, Timothy Hudson's accused of killing his 18-year-old step-sister Anna Kepner, who was found dead during a trip with their family last year.
The U.S. military has killed five people. It says were smuggling drugs by boat in the Pacific. NPR's Quilorn supports the U.S. has killed at least 168 people in similar encounters since September. U.S. Southern Command posted Granny videos on social media showing explosions that destroyed
two small boats alleged to be smuggling drugs. Southcom said it notified the U.S. Coast Guard to search for and rescue one shipwrecked survivor in the Eastern Pacific. The Trump administration says the U.S. is at war with narco-traffickers and that these strikes save American lives.
It's not clear how the strategy has affected the flow of cocaine, but a majority of overdose deaths in the U.S. are from fentanyl, which is mostly smuggled by land from Mexico. Many legal experts say these strikes amount to execution without trial or simply murder. And some allies in South America and Europe have stopped sharing some intelligence with the U.S. military as a result.
Quilorn's NPR news FIFA, the international soccer governing body, is adding a more expensive tier for tickets ahead of the World Cup. Let's take it for a front category one seat at the U.S. Opener Against Paraguay at Inglewood, California, June. It's a bucket of costs more than $4,100.
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