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Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-Deremer is resigning after facing a probe from her department for possible misconduct.
“In January, the New York Post first reported that the IG was looking into complaints that”
she was having an affair with a member of her security detail, drinking on the job, and using taxpayer-funded travel to visit family and friends. We are hasn't independently verified the contents of the investigation. Communications director Stephen Chang says she's done a phenomenal job and that deputy Secretary Keith Sonderling will become acting labor secretary.
DREAMER is the third Trump cabinet member to leave.
President Trump in SISP's talks will take place in Islamabad this week, though Iran hasn't said it will come. This after the U.S. seized an Iranian flagged ship in the straight-up war moves this weekend, but the White House says violated the U.S.'s blockade in the waterway. Meanwhile, as the U.S. and Iran cease fire ends in just days, Trump insists that the
U.S. has been successful and that he's not under pressure to make a deal with Iran. He also slammed media outlets for their reporting of the war as impairs Daniel Kurtz-Labin reports.
“In an afternoon social media post, Trump framed the war in Iran now in its eight”
week as short, compared to the U.S.'s years-long involvement in past conflicts, including World War's one and two, as well as the wars in Vietnam and Iraq. In a post shortly thereafter, he wrote, quote, "I'm winning a war by a lot," and criticized multiple news outlets for reporting otherwise. President Trump tells Bloomberg that the ceasefire announced nearly two weeks ago expires
Wednesday evening. A U.S. delegation plans to travel to Islamabad soon for further peace talks, according to an official familiar with the plans. Daniel Kurtz-Labin and PR news the White House. The State Department says it's hosting a second round of talks between Israel and Lebanon
Thursday and Washington.
Israel invaded Lebanon and has been attacking it, displacing more than one million civilians
in the southern part of the country, as the targets Iranian-backed Hezbollah militants.
“FBI director Cash Patel filed a 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. If yours, Jacqueline Diaz, has more. FBI director Cash Patel is accusing the Atlantic of publishing false claims about him in an article published on Friday.
Patel is demanding $250 million in damages. He claims that the Atlantic's goal was to destroy his reputation and drive him out of the FBI. The reporter behind the story, sir, Fitzpatrick, is also named in the lawsuit. The Atlantic responded in a statement today saying it stands by its reporting, and that it plans to quote "vigorously defend the media company and its journalists."
Can Pierce, Jacqueline Diaz, reporting this is in PR news. Pope Leo is in Angola on his third stop on a tour of four countries in Africa, where the Catholic Church is rapidly growing. The trip has come amid attacks from the Trump administration over the war on Iran, this past weekend.
The first American Pope tried to downplay those tensions, and here's Emmanuel Akonwotu has more. Pope Leo has sought to return the focus of his 11-day tour in Africa, away from growing tensions with President Trump. In Angola, his third stop on the tour, he said some of his statements against war had
been interpreted as a direct response to attacks against him by President Trump last week. It was looked at as if I was trying to debate again the president, which is that my interest at all.
Half of Angola's almost 40 million people are Catholic, and on Sunday, Leo visited
a sanctuary where enslaved Africans were forcibly baptised before being taken to the Americas. He made a speech acknowledging the quote "sorrow and great suffering" but stopped short of directly referencing slavery or the church's role in it. Emmanuel Akonwotu and Piano use Lagos. Elon Musk has been summoned to Paris as part of an investigation into alleged misconduct
on his social media platform, X. French authorities are looking into the spread of child sexual abuse material and deep fake content. French prosecutors have alerted U.S. authorities, but the Justice Department reportedly declined to assist.
Reporters without borders has also filed a complaint against X for allowing disinformation. Straight lower by the closing bell, Angineen Herbst and PR News in Washington. Every story from shortwave and pure science podcasts starts with a question. Like, why do we have nightmares? How does AI affect my energy bill?
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