"Live from MPR News," I'm Jial Snyder, a grand jury in North Carolina has ind...
FBI director James Komi for allegedly making a threat against President Trump.
“In response, Komi said he's innocent and this is not how the Department of Justice”
is supposed to be. In Paris, Kerry Johnson reports that Trump has been pushing the DOJ to go after Komi four years.
The two-count indictment in North Carolina marks the second time the Trump Justice Department
has tried to pursue a criminal case against Jim Komi. A judge in Virginia threw out the first case because the prosecutor there was not legally appointed. Now DOJ is accusing Komi a long time critic of the president of threatening the 47th president. Referring to an incident last year when Komi posted a photo of the number's 86-47 in C-Shelves.
Komi later deleted the post and said he didn't know the slang term '86 could be considered a threat. However, legal experts say Komi's photo seems to fall in the bounds of political speech protected by the first amendment. Kerry Johnson and PR News Washington.
“King Charles was on Capitol Hill Tuesday delivering a speech to Congress in which he said the”
U.S. and Britain built one of the most consequential alliances in human history and urged that calls to become more inward-looking, be ignored. I pray with all my heart that our alliance will continue to defend our shared values with our partners in Europe and the Commonwealth and across the world. [Applause]
King Charles has speak to Congress, came amid tensions between President Trump and British Prime Minister Kirs Starmer over the war in Iran, he urged on yielding resolve and supporting Ukraine against Russia and praised NATO alliance President Trump hosted the King and Queen Camilla tonight for a state dinner. Strong storms have been moving through North Texas local media reporting multiple injuries
and damaged homes and businesses in mineral wells, following a tornado warning in the region. Investigators still looking into what may have motivated a Southern California man charge with attempting to assassinate President Trump over the weekend.
“31-year-old Kuala Allen was a high school educator in Paris, Odette Usef reports.”
Allen's family members have told reporters that he was a radical leftist and PR has not independently confirmed these reports, but Jared Holt, an online extremism analyst with open measures, says writings and social media accounts believe to be associated with Allen paint a different picture. "They're really not that radical, often times it's quite centrist, pretty moderate, loved
wing, if anything." Holt says that unlike some of the prior assassination attempts against Trump, the writings do not indicate that Allen was immersed in extreme or conspiracist information systems online, Odette Usef and PR news. "Yeah, and you're listening to MPR news."
Well, Disney's Josh tomorrow is facing his first crisis as a company's new chief executive,
the Federal Communications Commission under Chairman Brendan Carr, has ordered in early licensed review of multiple ABC television stations owned by Disney. The order to his day came after a joke about Melania Trump by late night host Jimmy Kimmel that drew calls from the White House for ABC to fire Kimmel Kimmel survived calls as sure that he'd be fired.
Disney animation released several songs from some of its most popular recent movies in American Sign Language this week to mark National Death History Month. Piers' Chloe Veldman reports a reanimated scenes are receiving mixed reviews from the deaf community. Disney has given three songs an ASL spin so far.
We don't talk about Bruno from in Canto, frozen toose the next right thing, and beyond from Ohanna, too. "What lies beyond?" The release is a part of Disney animation's songs in Sign Language Initiative, created in collaboration with Deaf West Theatre in Los Angeles to incorporate ASL gestures into
the musical scenes. And they've sparked a debate among members of the Deaf community on social media. In a post on Instagram, Lifelong Sign A Rogan Shannon says he applauds Disney for the effort it put into the challenging work of animating Sign Language, but he says he had trouble understanding the gestures because they were not represented clearly enough on screen.
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