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to advance a $70 billion budget plan.
“It's aimed at funding immigration enforcement agencies.”
NPR's Barbara Sprunt reports the Homeland Security Department has been partially shut down for weeks." After a late night, early morning, voter Rama, the Senate adopted a budget resolution that enables Republicans to use reconciliation to fund ICE and Border Patrol for the next three and a half years.
Republican senators Lisa McCouski of Alaska and Rand Paul of Kentucky joined all Democrats invoting against it. Now the measure heads to the House, where there's already efforts to broaden the scope beyond just immigration enforcement. The budget tool of reconciliation was used to pass President Trump's signature legislation,
the one big, beautiful bill. It's a complicated and lengthy process that enables a party to pass a measure along party lines with no filibuster threat.
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Hill yesterday. He was pressed by lawmakers about the rise in measles cases. As NPR Salina Simmons' Duffin reports, Kennedy deflected blame for the country experiencing its highest number of measles cases in three decades. Secretary Kennedy has a history of anti-vaccine activism.
He has emphasized vaccination as a personal choice, rather than encouraging more people to get the measles vaccine as the disease spreads across the country. Here is Democratic Senator Lisa Blunt, Rochester of Delaware, in one committee hearing. Can you take any responsibility in your role for the situation that we are in with this measles epidemic?
As I said, the measles epidemic began before I came into office the people in tape that is in no. Kennedy said he's done a great job containing the spread of measles and stressed that it's a global problem, salina Simmons Duffin and Pyrenees, Washington.
The United Nations development arm says the war in Iran is pushing 30 million people
back into poverty. It warns of lower crop yields and growing hunger, and Pyrenees Jane Arraf has details. The head of the UN development program says the war and a halt to most shipping through the Strait of Hormuz has disrupted fuel and fertiliser supplies, just as farmers are planting crops.
Alexander DeCru, told Reuters that fertiliser shortages are expected to reduce crop yields, and increase food security later this year. DeCru said the effects would be felt even if the war stopped immediately. Disruptions to shipping have already led to higher oil and gas prices, and they're expected to affect prices of thousands of consumer items from condoms to teddy bears that use petrochemicals.
U.S. stock markets, however, fueled partly by tech company earnings on Wednesday hit record highs. Jane Arraf and Pyrenees, Aman. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche says the Justice Department is loosening restrictions
on FDA approved and state regulated marijuana. Blanche says marijuana will be reclassified as a less dangerous drug.
European Union has formally approved a $106 billion loan package to Ukraine.
This will help Ukraine pay its bills and purchase military equipment to fight the Russian full-scale invasion. The European decision came after Hungary lifted its veto. Hungary's prime minister was also defeated in his reelection bid last week. A Sheriff's Department in Western Colorado is using an AI-generated photo to help find a missing
person, as been public radio's Halle's and reports. This raises questions about how law enforcement should engage with the technology. The Chiefie County Sheriff's Office posted the image to Facebook on Monday after searching for cadence sites for five days. The image depicted sites in what investigators believe he was wearing when he disappeared
while hunting. Sandra Rostovska is the director of CU Boulder's Visual Evidence Lab. While this might seem a very small insignificant example, it does help normalize naturalize this technology. Rostovska says she doesn't see ethical issues in this specific case, but Warren's law enforcement
about the widespread use of generative AI. She says she's seen cases of officers using less sophisticated technology to doctor evidence. Warren P. R. News, I'm Halle Zander, an Aspen Colorado, and I'm Core of a Coolman NPR News from Washington. Every episode of NPR's It's Bene Minute podcast starts with a question about how culture shapes our lives.
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