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Labor Secretary Lori Chavez de Riemer has resigned, becoming the third member of President Trump's cabinet to leave this term.
“Empires Andrea Shew reports the Secretary was under investigation over allegations of”
misconduct while in office." White House Communications Director Stephen Chung announced the departure on X. He wrote that Chavez de Riemer was leaving for a job in the private sector and added that she'd done "a phenomenal job in her role." But Chavez de Riemer's short tenure was marked by controversy.
The Labor Department's Inspector General was looking into complaints that the Secretary was having an affair with a subordinate, drinking alcohol on the job, and using taxpayer-funded travel to visit with friends and family members, that's according to the New York Post and other media outlets. MPR has not independently verified the contents of the investigation.
Her deputy Keith Sonderling has been named acting labor secretary, Andrea Shew and PR news. Louisiana's Governor Jeff Landry visited Shreepport today, where a gunman shot and killed eight children there yesterday.
“Berk Thorington of Member Station W.R.K.F. has more.”
The North Louisiana City remains in shock after 31-year-old Chomar Elkins allegedly opened far at two homes Sunday morning and killed eight children, seven of them were his own. Governor announced the children's funnels would be paid for by Louisiana First Lady Sharon Landry's nonprofit organization.
"We knew that God has pleased upon us eight new angels that are now looking over the city of Shreepport." Police said Elkins also shot his wife and girlfriend, both mothers to his children. Louisiana State Police are investigating whether Elkins died by suicide or was killed by police. Here in PR news, I'm Brooke Thorington, and Baton Rouge.
Defending the administration's proposal to cut $1 billion from the National Park Service
as NPR's Kirk Sigler reports, the agency has lost a quarter of its staff since last year. Interior Secretary Doug Bergham downplayed Trump's latest proposed cuts to the park service
“during a hearing with the House subcommittee, saying like last summer, his plan is to put”
more staffers in national parks instead of regional offices. "You had parks last year that had including some of the biggest like Yellowstone where we had more people in the parks last summer than we'd had for years because we were focusing on filling the roles that were citizen-facing roles." Trump's latest budget would cut more than $700 million from park service operations.
Bergham says some of that reflects money the administration plans to move to its new Wildland Fire Service, committee Democrats blasted him for his, they put it making decisions in secret while circumventing Congress. Kirk Sigler and PR news. "You as future's contacts are trading higher at this hour, you're listening to NPR news."
FBI director Cash Patel filed a $250 million defamation lawsuit against the Atlantic and one of its reporters for a recent article alleging he has bouts of excessive drinking, emotional outbursts, and frequent absences. He denies the claims and says the Atlantic's goal was to destroy his reputation and drive him out of the FBI.
The Atlantic calls the suit merit-less and says it stands behind the story and the reporter. Schools and other public institutions had until this week to meet new guidelines to make their websites fully accessible to people with disabilities. Now as NPR's genocometh are reports, the federal government has delayed that deadline by at least a year.
The Americans with Disabilities Act has always required the web to be accessible.
It just never had specific standards, explaining what the had to look or sound like. Then in 2024 under the Biden administration, the Justice Department announced specific guidelines. Colleges, schools, cities, and other public entities had until this week to get up to enough. That included all web and mobile learning materials for students.
But at the last minute, the DOJ has postponed the deadline. Now larger institutions have until April of next year and smaller ones until 2028. This has left disability rights organizations frustrated, while some school administrators are relieved they have extra time to be compliant. Junokimetha NPR News While street was lower by the closing bell, the Dow Down 4 points
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