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Komey again. It comes a day after the Justice Department announced charges against Komey for allegedly making a threat against Trump and an Instagram photo of C-shelves. Imperials Ryan Lucas reports. The charges against Komey stem from a photo he posted on social media last year showing C-shelves arranged to spell out 86-47, 86-been slang for "remove" in 47 in apparent reference
to Trump, the 47th president. At the White House, Trump was asked whether he really thought his life was in danger because of Komey's post. "Probably, I don't know, you know, based on what I'm seeing at the, yeah, the people
“like Komey have created tremendous danger, I think, for politicians and others."”
Trump has publicly called for Komey to be prosecuted. The new indictment is, in fact,
the second against Komey since Trump returned office. The first for alleged false statements
and obstruction was thrown out by a judge. Ryan Lucas and PR News, Washington. Komey turned himself in Wednesday appearing in federal courts in Virginia. His attorneys say they plan to accuse the Justice Department of engaging in a vindictive prosecution to punish him for criticizing the president. The Supreme Court has weakened the landmark voting rights act in his six to three ruling
long partisan lines. The court's conservative majority struck down a majority black congressional district in Louisiana. It's a later said a series of rulings that has chipped away at the voting rights act, and it opens the door for more redistricting efforts across the country that could aid Republican efforts to retain control of the House. In a Wednesday evening session, the Republican-led House took a step toward funding the Homeland
“Security Department approving a bill that unlocks a reconciliation process, and after”
weeks of infighting the House passed a three-year extension of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Ukraine is asking Israel to seize a Russian ship that it believes is transporting stolen Ukrainian grain. Here's MPR's Polina Levinover reporting. According to Ukrainian law enforcement bodies, the sheep carrying the grain from Ukrainian occupied territories is heading to the Israeli port of Haifan. President Vladimir Zelensky has already
warned Israel not to accept the ship and promised sanctions against those who are "attempting to profit from these criminal scheme." Israel's Foreign Minister Guidenzar said Israel rejects "the kind of Twitter diplomacy" and called Ukraine's public accusation surprising considering the help Israel has given Ukraine during the war. Ukraine's officials say since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion, Russia has illegally
exported over a million and half-tons of agricultural products from occupied territories.
Polina Levinover, and we are news, Kyiv. This is MPR. Jerome Powell is planning to remain on the board of the Federal Reserve after his term as chair ends next month. Powell said Wednesday that he will remain for an undetermined period of time, citing what he said where unprecedented legal attacks by the Trump administration. I worry that these attacks are battering the institution and putting it risk to think that
really matters to the public, which is the ability to conduct monetary policy without taking into consideration political factors. House announcement came as a Senate banking committee approved Powell's successor as chair, Trump appointee Kevin Worse, the vote was on party lines.
“The United States has indicted one of Mexico's most important governors.”
The U.S. accuses the governor of St. Aloa, of colluding with a big drug cartel as MPR's eighter per altar reports. The U.S. alleges that Governor Rouen Rochamoya was helped to power by the chapter-defection of the St. Aloa cartel. In the indictment, the U.S. alleges the cartel stole ballots that didn't benefit Rochamoya,
and they intimidated and kidnapped his opponents. The exchange of governor allegedly allowed the St. Aloa cartel to operate freely. Last year, after two boys were killed by cartel gunfire, thousands took to the streets of St. Aloa, calling for Rochamoya to step down. They broke into his office and called him a narko governor.
Rochamoya is a powerful member of Mexico's ruling party, and so far, President Claudio
Shambam has stuck by his side. The foreign ministry said the accusations were received with no evidence, but that the attorney general's office is reviewing the extradition request at a prompt of MPR News in Mexico City. And I'm Jail Snyder, this is MPR News. This year, for the first time in NPR's history, public media is operating without federal
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