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posted a fresh warning online to Iran, he says, quote, "Iron can't get their act together.
“They don't know how to sign a non-nuclear deal.”
They better get smart soon," exclamation point. Trump then posted an AI photo of himself holding an assault, style, rifle standing in front of bombed and burning buildings in a desert. This week, the White House said Trump and his national security team were reviewing a proposal from Iran.
The Associated Press reports, it post-pones nuclear talks for a later stage. Britain's King Charles and Queen Camilla are going to New York today.
They'll visit the 9/11 memorial and meet with first responders and relatives of those who
were killed. The King delivered and addressed a Congress yesterday and discussed sensitive topics. And B.R. Sam Greenglass reports, Charles, got a warm reception. Anger toward King George III helped unite disparate colonies, 250 years later, King Charles III had seemed to remind a polarized Congress at least briefly what its members share among
themselves. "The very principle on which your Congress was founded, no taxation without representation,
“was at once a fundamental disagreement between us, and at the same time a shared democratic”
value, which you inherited from us." Another common principle, the King said, is subjecting executive power to checks and balances, a point not lost on a Congress that is repeatedly seated authority. Even after that line, many lawmakers jumped to their feet to applaud, a few remain seated. Sam Greenglass and PR News, Washington.
Former FBI director James Comi says he is innocent of two federal indictments, accusing him of making a threat against President Trump. In the video statement, Comi says this is not how the Justice Department is supposed to be. NPR's Kerry Johnson reports that, for years, Trump has been pushing the agency to pursue
Comi.
The two count indictment in North Carolina marks the second time the Trump Justice Department
has tried to pursue a criminal case against Jim Comi. A judge in Virginia threw out the first case because the prosecutor there was not legally appointed.
“Now, DOJ is accusing Comi a long time critic of the president of threatening the 47th”
president. Referring to an incident last year, when Comi posted a photo of the number's 86-47 in C-shelves. Comi later deleted the post and said he didn't know the slang term '86 could be considered a threat.
Several legal experts say Comi's photo seems to fall in the bounds of political speech protected by the first amendment. Kerry Johnson and PR News, Washington. The federal reserve board is expected to leave interest rates alone when policy makers finish their two-day meeting today in Washington.
President Trump wants rate cuts, but the federal reserve policy makers have resisted citing inflation. You're listening to NPR. The Federal Communications Commission is ordering entertainment company Disney to start in early renewal of its eight ABC local TV stations.
The FCC wants them reviewed for public interest concerns. That follows President and Mrs. Trump's demand that ABC late night host Jimmy Kim will be fired for a joke they didn't like. Critics say the FCC is moving to interfere in free speech. Drugmaker Perdue Farmer has been sentenced to pay a quarter of a billion dollars in fines
to the Justice Department. And PR's Brian Mann reports Perdue Farmer's owners and executives have avoided trial. Using U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanch praised yesterday's fine for Perdue Farmer, he called it a prime example, the Justice Department's effort to redress past wrongs. The company admitted misleading the public about the safety of OxyContin and to paying
doctors to over-prescribe opioid medications. Critics, including Ed Bish, who lost his son to an OxyContin overdose, are anchored the DOJ didn't bring charges against company executives. "It's really not deterrent right now what they're doing." Members of the Sackler family who owned the company say they did nothing wrong and they've
never been charged with any crime.
Perdue Farmer is now expected to finalize a much larger federal bankruptcy settlement worth roughly $7.4 billion. Brian Mann and PR news. Authorities in Texas say another tornado has touched down just west of the Dallas Fort Worth area.
There's damage reported in the town of Mineral Springs. The storm system comes after tornadoes last Saturday killed two people in the vicinity of Dallas. "I'm Core of a Coleman, NPR News." Every day NPR reports stories that keep you informed without fear or favor.
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