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monarch ever to address Congress today after his mother, Queen Elizabeth II in 1991.
“The sovereign is typically a political, but he gave quite a political speech to U.S. lawmakers,”
mentioning NATO and Ukraine and making a veiled reference to Jeffrey Epstein as NPR's Lauren Freyer reports. King Charles emphasized interfaith values, diversity and checks on executive power. He called for more support for Ukraine and said the only time NATO's collective defense was triggered was for America after 9/11, and he called for collective strength. "To support victims of some of the ills that so tragically exist in both our societies today."
A royal aid tells NPR the King intended that line to be about Jeffrey Epstein's victims. The aid spoke on condition of anonymity because they're not allowed to speak publicly. A member of Congress asked Charles to meet some of those victims, but no such meeting is on his schedule. The King's own brother settled a lawsuit with one of the late sex offenders victims, denies
wrongdoing, but is still under police investigation. Lauren Freyer and Pair News London. Former FBI director James Komi has been indicted again this time over a social media photo of sea shells arranged on a beach that officials say constituted a threat against President Trump.
In a video statement, Komi says he's innocent.
“"It's really important that all of us remember this is not who we are as a country.”
This is not how the Department of Justice is supposed to be. And the good news is we get closer every day to restoring those values." Komi says he assumed the arrangement of shells reading 86-47 was a political message, not a call to violence against Trump the 47th president.
It's the second criminal case the Justice Department has brought against Komi a long-time
foe of Trump's. A federal judge throughout the Department of Justice is attempt to force Arizona to turn over its voter role to the Trump administration from the Member Station KJZZ and Phoenix Wayne Shotsky reports. The DOJ argued it is entitled to the information under a federal law that requires states
to maintain certain documents from federal elections and gives the attorney general the power to demand state officials turn over that data. But U.S. district court judge Susan Byrnevich, a Trump appointee, found that the exact information sought by the Justice Department, including social security numbers, goes beyond the records the AG is allowed to demand from states.
Federal judges and other states have dismissed five similar lawsuits. For NPR News, I'm Wayne Shotsky in Phoenix. Federal agents have served search warrants in Minnesota in a fraud investigation of publicly funded social programs for children. Patients could be seen outside child care centers in the Minneapolis area today, Democratic
Governor Tim Walls welcomed the action. The Trump administration has charged dozens of people. Many of them Somali Americans with fleecing a kid's food program. This is NPR News from Washington. Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis is back in the national spotlight as he pushes
for a new congressional map in Florida. His proposal seeks to give Republicans four more seats equivalent to the expected democratic gains in Virginia.
“It's a key moment for DeSantis to show he could still be a future national leader for”
his party. Some Republicans, meanwhile, worry the redistricting plan might backfire and help Democrats. The Supreme Court will hear arguments over the Trump administration's removal of protections for Haitians and Syrians tomorrow. NPR's Andrea Xu reports on senior citizens advocating for immigration care takers.
More than 20,000 Haitians with TPS work as nursing assistants and caregivers, according to the immigration advocacy group forward.us. Even more work in dining services is another role in long-term care facilities. Rita Sivanollar is a resident of Goodwin Living, a retirement community in northern Virginia. She says now is not the time to be forcing willing and able workers out.
This has a tremendous impact on American seniors. Hundreds of thousands turned 65 every year. Who's going to care for them?
The Trump administration has argued that TPS was always supposed to be temporary and that
conditions in many countries have improved. That's despite ongoing warnings of unsafe conditions from the State Department, Andrea Xu and PR news. The Artemis 2 capsule returned to the Kennedy Space Center today, almost a month after humanity's first lunar trip in more than 50 years after it splashed down.
It was trucked from San Diego to Florida, engineers will now examine it in more detail. This is NPR News. Every day NPR reports stories that keep you informed without fear or favor. That's the promise of a free press in a democracy. It's in the first amendment.
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