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Congress is ending a record-long shutdown at the Department of Homeland Security.
“Today, the U.S. House approved by Voicephote, the Senate's DHS funding bill.”
The measure excludes money for immigration and customs enforcement and parts of Board of Patrol. As NPR Sam Greenglass tells us the measure, heading to President Trump's desk caps two-and-a-half months of bitter debate over nasty deportations and enforcement tactics that resulted in the deaths of two U.S. citizens 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 and 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 with 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.
“Louisiana's Secretary of State has just announced that U.S. House primaries are suspended”
following yesterday's Supreme Court decision that Louisiana's Congressional map is an unconstitutional racial jerry mandor. Pompeo, Sancti Lowong, reports of voting rights advocates are racing concerns about the courts ruling. It's impact on many voters of color across the U.S.
The voting rights act protections against racial discrimination that the court has reinterpreted in this case have also applied to the rejoining of districts for state legislatures, city councils, school boards, and other local government in places where white majority voters and minority voters of color tend to prefer different candidates. With a weekend voting rights act, the advocacy groups verified action and black voters
matter fund estimate states could draw out of existence closer to 200 state legislative seats held by democratic lawmakers, mostly representing majority black districts in the
South and in Congress as much as 11 percent of the congressional Hispanic caucus could
be lost on Zila Wong and PR News. Against the backdrop of the Iran War, the price of jet fuels nearly doubled since February, Montana Public Radio's Austin Amastoy reports on what that could mean for fighting wildfires in the coming months. Less forest service has in charge of most large wildfires.
Last year, it says it spent a little more than $50 million fueling up planes and helicopters. It's budgeted less than that for this summer, even though jet fuel has skyrocketed in price.
“Will this curdy used to fly planes as a wildland firefighter?”
You're asking for a lot of power, a lot of fuel consumption. Then you would, if you're high, just climbing to the air. This year's fire season may prove expensive with forecasters projecting a warm dry summer out west. For NPR News, I'm Austin Amastoy in Masula, Montana.
This is NPR News. Camp Mystic, the Christian All-Grow's camp where 27 people died and last year's flooding in central Texas says it is withdrawing its application to reopen this summer, while investigations are ongoing. President Trump's pulled his nomination of KC Means for Surgeon General, following questions
about her position on non-traditional medicines, vaccines and other health issues. President Trump is now nominating Dr. Nicole Sapphire, a radiologist and regular Fox News contributor.
A scientist who played a critical role in the sequencing of the human genome has died and
PR's NL Greenfield Voice reports J Craig Venter's work accelerated the mapping of Humanities DNA. Scientists gathered at the White House 26 years ago with President Bill Clinton to mark what was basically the completion of efforts to sequence all human genes. Venter was celebrated at the event for his rival sequencing effort that gave the government
funded Human Genome Project a run for its money. His company, Solaris Genomics, pioneered new, faster approaches. He became the first to sequence and publish his own personal genome and his research team advanced the field of synthetic biology by creating a bacterial cell controlled by labs synthesized DNA.
The J Craig Venter Institute, which he founded, said he died after unexpected side effects from a cancer treatment. He was 79 years old, NL Greenfield Voice and PR News. This year, for the first time in NPR's history, public media is operating without federal funding.
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