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President Trump has signed a bill ending the record long shutdown at the Department of Homeland Security.
“The measure excludes money for ice and parts of Border Patrol, as NPR's Sam Greenglass”
reports it caps two and a half months of bitter debate over deportation and immigration enforcement tactics that resulted in the deaths of two people in Minneapolis.
Funding for DHS was first caught up in debate between Republicans and Democrats over funding
for two of its agencies, immigration and customs enforcement and customs and border protection. Senate Republicans struck a deal with Democrats, blessed by the White House, to separate ice and border patrol, so funding could flow again to other agencies like TSA in the Coast Guard. But when that measure reached the House, it sat for a month amid disagreements within the GOP.
The House finally acted as money that Trump was using to keep HX flowing to many DHS workers was set to run out. Republicans are advancing a separate measure to fund ice and border patrol using a maneuver Democrats can't block. Sam Greenglass and PR News Washington.
Defense Secretary Pete HXF is clashing with Democratic lawmakers in Congress for a second day.
HXF rejected accusations from New York Democratic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand that the Iran
war was launched without evidence of an imminent threat and wage with no coherent strategy. We did not have any evidence that Iran intended to imminently attack this country in any way, shape, or form, so I disagree with your assessment that we were under threat.
“Do you not believe them when they say death to America?”
Listen, our adversaries use rhetoric all the time. What I'm concerned about is we are not safer, and I would just like to know why you have not sought the support of the American people, and three out of five Americans are against this war today. HXF set opponents to the war failed to recognize the many successes of the military against
the Islamic Republic over the last two months. Louisiana State officials are suspending the upcoming U.S. House primary elections following the Supreme Court's decision to reject Louisiana's congressional map, calling it an unconstitutional racial gerrymander, Mel Bridges with member-station W.W.N.O. reports. Governor Jeff Landry is postponing the election, but only for House seats.
Absentee voting for the May 16th primary in the state has already begun and early voting begins Saturday. The governor and the secretary of state did not say when the House elections will be rescheduled too.
“This comes after the Supreme Court ruled Louisiana's redrawn congressional map relied”
to heavily on race and give it back to the state to redraw. In a statement, Landry says the executive order gives a legislature time to redraw the congressional map. The American Civil Liberties Union and legal defense fund had previously threatened legal action if the state tried to delay the May 16th election.
For NPR News, I'm Mel Bridges in New Orleans. The U.S. stock market resumed its record setting climb today as profits kept piling up for big businesses. This is NPR News. The Trump administration is appealing a judge's order as it tries to cut the number of
vaccines recommended for kids. Last month, a judge blocked Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr's decision to end recommendations for all children to be vaccinated against flu, hepatitis meningitis, RSV, and others. The order remains in effect while the appeal is being considered. It appears AI is not better than alternatives when it comes to forecasting extreme weather,
NPR's Rebecca Hershey reports a new study finds AI misjudges extremely hot and extremely cold weather. Researchers compared AI weather models to other forecasting models that use physics to see which was better at predicting extreme weather events. The authors who are climate scientists in Germany and Switzerland found that AI was not as
accurate when it came to very hot weather, very cold weather, and wind storms. The study was published in the journal Science Advances. Previous studies and real-world tests have found that some AI models are extremely good at predicting normal every day weather. But the new study finds that doesn't extend to extreme weather events.
The findings of implications for how weather agencies might apply AI technology to forecasting. Rebecca Hershey and Pierre News 41-year-old skiing star Lindsey Vaughn says she's not ready to make a decision of weather to race again as she continues to recover from her frightening crash at the winter Olympics. She has on undergone eight surgeries after suffering a complex left leg fracture.
She says a return would be at least a year and a half away. This is NPR News from Washington
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