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storm damage, following a series of tornado warnings.
“Scott Simmons with the state emergency management agency says there are reports of hundreds”
of structures damaged, including the agency's only emergency operations center. "Tornado's reported in Wilkinson and Adams, a fourth county doing preliminary assessments as we talked about as many as 815 structures between Franklin and Lincoln County. Some return damage right now." "The Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves has multiple tornadoes have been reported in central
and western Mississippi with a major one reported in Franklin County where damage is said to be widespread with reports of people trapped inside damaged homes." U.S. and Iran still officially in a ceasefire, but the U.S. military said Wednesday that it fired on an Iranian oil tanker, saying in a social media post that a fighter jet disabled the tanker in the Gulf of Oman.
The military says the vessel was trying to breach the U.S. blockade of Iranian ports. At the White House when state president Trump warned that the U.S. will start bombing again if Iran does not agree to a deal to end the war, but he also said a deal is very possible. A new Republican proposal to fund Homeland Security, ICE agents for the rest of President
Trump's term, also includes a billion dollars to secure a new ballroom at the White
House. It's a nearly $75 billion three-year plan to fund the immigration enforcement teams inside of DHS, but there are some smaller pots of money in the proposal to fund other parts
“of the agency, including a billion dollars for the Secret Service, targeted at security measures”
for Trump's White House ballroom, or as the White House staff calls it, the Eastwing Modernization Project. The draft legislation says the money can not be used for construction, which the administration says has been funded so far just through private donations, long shot proposals from Congress to use taxpayer money for the project to have not gained any traction.
Eric McDaniel and PR News Washington. "Rosil President Luis Anosia Lula de Silva is heading to the U.S. for a meeting with President Trump today. The visit announced at the last minute, but in the works for a month, Cecilia Carnero reports." The official visit in Washington comes with great expectation in Brazil, due to the ups
and downs in U.S. Brazil relations in the past year. The hefty U.S. tariffs imposed on Brazil in exports last year were gradually dropped after talks between both countries reignited, but there are big differences between Trump and Lula on matters like the Iran War and the U.S. intervention in Venezuela criticized
“by the leftist leader, making this a thorny meeting.”
The Presidents are to discuss economic and security matters, according to Vice President Jadado Alcmin, Brazil will propose an agreement to combat organized crime. The country has been resisting U.S. pressure to designate criminal factions as terrorist organizations. For NPR News, I'm Jelikah Neiro in Rio.
"And this is NPR News." CNN founder Ted Turner has died at age 87.
He started the first U.S. super station and owned sports teams, including the Atlanta
Braves. Turner previously announced he had Louis Body Dementia to gender-tip disease. NPR's David Folkan flick has more. Ted Turner's perhaps best known for starting CNN. "He was a visionary, a trailblazer, a rabble rouser, a do-gooder, and he thought there
would be a market for it." That's Ethan Jordan, who rose to be CNN's chief news executive. The place operated on the cheap and on the fly. "Look, we were young, and it times very shotty, but we were the only game in town, and we did some extraordinary things."
CNN came into its own with coverage of the Challenger Space Shuttle explosion and the first Gulf War. In 1996, with the launch of rivals, Fox News and MSNBC, Turner sold his holdings.
He gave a billion to fund the United Nations and helped to inspire the giving pledge from
philanthropic giants Warren Buffett and Bill Gates. David Folkan flick and PR News. "Federal Judge says the Justice Department does not have to return the 2020 election ballots on George's Fulton County that were seized by the FBI from a warehouse near Atlanta. The judge issued the ruling Wednesday.
Lawyers for Fulton County had argued for their return, saying the seizure was improper and unconstitutional." Folten County is at the center of unfounded election fraud claims by President Trump. Pence benchmarked Nikkei leading the way of Thursday trading in Asia, the Nikkei up more than five and a half percent crossing the 62,000 mark for the first time.
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