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Former FBI director James Comi has been indicted again this time over a social media photo of C-shelts, a ranged on a beach that officials say constituted a threat against President Trump. In a video statement, Comi says he is 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 is is we get closer every day to restoring those values." Comi 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 Comi.
Investigators are still looking into what may have motivated a Southern California man charged with attempting to assassinate President Trump over the weekend. 31-year-old Cole Thomas Allen was a high school educator and PRZO debt U-SF reports. Allen's family members have told reporters that he was a radical leftist, NPR 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. Oftentimes it's like quite centuries, pretty moderate, loved-wing, if anything."
“Cole 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, ODET U-SF and PR News. The United Arab Emirates has announced it will leave OPEC, dealing a blow to the oil cartel in its leader Saudi Arabia. The UAE has long wanted to produce more oil than OPEC permitted as NPR's canola-dominansky
explains. Individually each country wants to produce as much oil as they can to make as much money as they can. But if every country did that, they would over supply the market in crash prices. So they try to aim for a sweet spot, producing just enough that prices are high enough
that they make a lot of money per barrel, but low enough that they don't crash the economy. And the UAE as a major player in OPEC had long argued that it's share of the total oil pie was too small that it was having to give up more production than other members of the cartel.
“And by leaving, UAE will be freed up to produce as much as it can.”
NPR's Camilla Dominozki reporting, Purdue Pharma is expected to be ordered to pay $225 million
in a criminal case related to how it sold its opioid painkiller, oxycontin. If a judge accepts the deal, it opens the door for a separate settlement of thousands of lawsuits over the toll of opioids. The company would dissolve in members of the saccler family who owned the company would have to pay up to $7 billion, some advocates want that deal to be blocked and are calling
on members of the family to be criminally charged instead. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. Federal agents have searched, served search warrants in Minnesota in an ongoing fraud investigation of publicly funded social programs for children. Evisions 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 Somalia Americans with fleasing a kid's food program. Florida lawmakers are refusing to take up a Republican governor Ron DeSantis's call to repeal vaccine mandates in schools.
From member station W. U. S. F. Kerry shared in reports. He sent his wanted lawmakers to work on a medical freedom bill during the four-day session. But the speaker of the Florida House Republican Daniel Perez says he won't bring the vaccine issue to the floor.
He says he's uncomfortable with the idea of children being in school without protection against diseases like measles and polio. Aubrey Jewett is a political science professor at the University of Central Florida. If the house isn't going to take it up, it's just not going to go anywhere, it's not going to become law, not this special session.
The house also declined to take up another DeSantis priority, AI protections, but they will consider congressional redistricting for NPR news on Kerry Sheridan in Tampa. Kid Rock and Defense Secretary Pete Heggseth flew in an Apache attack helicopter at a base in Virginia yesterday. It comes weeks after military pilots drew scrutiny for hovering near Kid Rock's house
in Tennessee. Pentagon spokesperson says the flights were part of a community relations event for the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. You're listening to NPR news from Washington. Every day NPR reports stories that keep you informed without fear or favor.
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