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The FCC has ordered an early review of 8 ABC station's licenses.
“The agency says the move is related to the network's diversity policies.”
It also comes amid a fight between President Trump and the network's late night host Jimmy Kimmel. Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren says the administration's actions are warning to all broadcasters. The FCC has just pulled out a sword to hang over every single news organization in America. And to say, you report things that Donald Trump doesn't like, and your entire station,
your entire business model could just disappear in the blink of an eye.
Last week, Kimmel jokes that first lady Melania Trump had the glow of an expectant widow,
the comet came before the attempted shooting at the White House Correspondence Dinner, which the Trump set tended over the weekend. Kimmel said it was a joke about the age difference between the Trumps. The Senate appropriations committee pressed Education Secretary Lindemock Mayn today over the president's proposed budget for the department, and PR's Sequoia Corrillo reports.
“It was the first time in almost a year that the Senate committee had Secretary of Education”
Lindemock Mayn in front of them. And many members took the opportunity to ask her about all the changes she's overseeing since they last talked. Namely, the dismantling of her own department, and the various services that some say have fallen through the cracks as layoffs and moves to different federal agencies have left parents
and districts confused. Democratic and Republican members alike lamented the defunding of college readiness programs for low-income students called Trio. They also asked about a path forward for student loan borrowers currently stuck in limbo. As the department begins to move the nation's $1.7 trillion loan portfolio to the Treasury
Department. Sequoia Corrillo and PR News.
“The Justice Department has indicted a former National Institutes of Health official over”
alleged efforts to evade a freedom of information act request and PR's Jeff Brumfield has more. The Justice Department announced it was indicting Dr. David Morrent, a former top advisor at the National Institute of Valorities and Infectious Disease, according to the indictment Morrent sought to help an unnamed company after it lost a grant with the agency.
It claims that Morrent's deliberately tried to avoid scrutiny by using personal emails and other means that were not subject to FOIA requests. Two years ago, House Republicans published a series of emails showing that Morrent's attempted to evade FOIA requests while assisting a non-profit known as EcoHealth Alliance. EcoHealth had close ties to the Wuhan Institute of Verology, a laboratory in China that some
believe was responsible for COVID's origins. Jeff Brumfield and PR News. Oil prices rose by more than 2.5% today, it's NPR. Former NBA player and assistant coach, Damon Jones, has become the first person to plead guilty in a gambling sweep that led to the arrests of more than 30 people.
He pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. He was charged in separate cases with profiting from rigged poker games and providing sports better with non-public information about injuries to star players.
UPS reported revenues of over $21 billion for the first three months of this year about
a 2% decline from last year from member station W. A. B. E. Marlin Hyde has more. UPS saw a decline in revenue that officials say was driven by a decline in volume. CEO, Carotome, expects the company to perform better in the next quarter as it continues to cut down on Amazon shipments and slash positions. However, there are a few external factors that we are watching that could impact demand,
especially high-of-fuel costs, stemming from the conflict in the Middle East, and U.S. Consumer Confidence, which is that historic low. UPS has customers paying a fuel surcharge. This applies for packages being transported by truck and plane, which helps protect its profits from price bikes like we've seen since the war in the Middle East started.
For MPR News, I'm Marlin Hyde, and I'll end. One of the longest continually operated Chinese restaurants in the nation has closed, pecking noodle parlor and bute Montana announced this week it's closing its doors permanently, according to the daily Montana. The restaurant has been in operation since 1911 and has been noted as the country's oldest family owned Chinese restaurant. You're listening
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