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A grand jury in North Carolina has indicted former FBI director James Komi for allegedly
“making a threat against President Trump and response Komi says he's innocent and that "this”
is not how the Department of Justice is supposed to be," and PR's Kerry Johnson reports Trump has been pushing the DOJ to go after Komi for 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's 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-shells. Komi later deleted the post and said he didn't know the slang term '86 could be considered a threat. For illegal experts, Komi's photo seems to fall in the bounds of political speech, protected by the first amendment.
Kerry Johnson and PR news, Washington.
“The Trump administration says it is struck more deals to divert investment away from the”
offshore wind industry and toward fossil fuel projects, and PR's Michael Koppler reports the agreements come after the administration failed to stop offshore wind projects over alleged national security concerns. The Interior Department said companies agreed to abandon plans for an offshore wind farm off the coast of New York and New Jersey and another offshore California and instead
invest in conventional energy projects, including natural gas.
In exchange, the administration said it will return nearly $900 million that companies paid
for offshore wind leases. The administration announced a similar deal in March. It calls for the government to pay a company nearly $1 billion to invest in fossil fuel projects instead of building wind farms off the Atlantic coast. Democratic Senator Sheldon White House is said he's investigating whether the March agreement
is legal, Michael Koppler and PR news. 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 and PR's Chloe Valtman reports. Disney has given three songs in ASL spin so far. We don't talk about Bruno from in Canto, frozen to use the next right thing, and beyond
from Moana too.
The release as a part of Disney animations songs in sign language initiative created in
collaboration with Death 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 Signar Rogan Shannon says he applaud 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. Chloe Valtman and Pionneus Wall Street's record setting rally halted today. This is NPR news. The FCC has ordered a review of ABC's broadcast licenses. The agency says the move is related to the network's diversity policies.
It also comes emit a fight between President Trump and late night host Jimmy Kimmel. Israeli Jewish settlers have attacked Palestinian homes in a West Bank village twice this week. NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports the attacks are increasingly frequent as the settlements expand under the right wing government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
A group of 20 or so settlers was caught on camera Monday as they ran down a hillside toward the village of Jaloud. Another close-up video shows them setting fire to a house as scared Palestinian women scream and huddle out front, black smoke willows from the door. One settler was arrested.
According to the UN Office for Humanitarian Coordination, some 36,000 Palestinians have been displaced in the West Bank since the October 7, 2023 war in Gaza. The organization says more than a thousand have been killed by settlers and the Israeli army in the last two and a half years.
“Two settlers in the Israeli cabinet have made no secret of the fact that they want”
to drive Palestinians from their land and increase settlements. More settlements have been approved in the last year than in the previous two decades. Eleanor Beardsley and Piano's Tel Aviv. U.S. consumer confidence rose modestly this month despite growing anxiety over soaring energy prices brought on by the war in Iran.
The national price for a gallon of regular gas is now $4.18 in California. It's $5.97, the last time drivers were paying this much for gas was nearly four years ago after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. This is NPR. One of here this podcast without sponsor bricks, Amazon Prime Members can listen to NPR news
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