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to help ice with immigration enforcement has grown rapidly since President Trump took office
“again, as MPR's Meg Anderson reports Homeland Security is offering millions of dollars”
and incentives to police who participate. DHS has promised to reimburse officer salaries, give bonuses to police for finding undocumented people and money for new cars and equipment like fingerprint scanners and license plate readers. A recent report estimated that if every police agency gets what they've been promised,
it could add up to as much as $2 billion this year alone. But DHS hasn't released much
information on who has actually gotten funds. Felicity Rose with the advocacy group forward.us says normally federal grants go through an open process and are tracked closely. It's very, very concerning that they're so little transparency in this money. DHS declined to give NPR more specifics, and again Anderson and PR News.
“Campaign staffers bet on their own candidates and made thousands of dollars on prediction markets,”
as NPR's Luke Garrett reports staffers use inside campaign information to bet with an edge and win big. Two campaign staffers granted anonymity for fear of retribution said the method is simple. Campaign staffers would get an unreleased poll, use it to buy advantageous event contracts, and then sell their contracts once the poll was released and their contract price soared. One staffer admitted to doing this themselves. They won thousands, and their bet was verified
by prediction market data reviewed by NPR. Current law bars prediction market betters from using insider information to make money. But former commissioner at the Commodities Future Trading Commissioned, Kristen Johnson, doubted that the agency could police quote election positions. These bets raised serious questions about how campaign operatives can turn private information
“into a quick payday amid an unsettled legal landscape for prediction markets.”
Luke Garrett and PR News, Washington. A cyber attack took the widely used education platform canvas offline today, and PR's Junaki Menta reports the hack seems to have affected schools across the nation. When students around the U.S. tried to access Canvas, they instead got a message that appeared to be from a hacker group known as shiny hunters. The message warned schools if they don't contact the group to negotiate a settlement by May 12, the hackers would leak quote everything.
The group claims it has access to data belonging to 9,000 schools and 275 million students
and staff. Colleges, as well as many K-12 schools, have released public alerts about the breach. In structure, the company that owns Canvas has confirmed a series of breaches over the last few days that have potentially released student names, emails, ID numbers, and messages. The company did not immediately respond to NPR's requests for comment, but it is posting updates about the breach on its website. Junaki Menta and PR News. This is NPR. The postal service is considering
a rule change about allowing anyone to send handguns through the mail for the first time in nearly 100 years. A 1927 law prohibits the shipment of handguns through the U.S. P.S. and less. They're from licensed retailers. The DOJ has called that law "unconstitutional." The devil's whole pup fish lives in a single pool in Death Valley National Park. This rare fish almost went extinct in the wild last year, but as NPR's no greenfield boy's reports officials took a drastic step
to help it survive, and they say the species is now doing much better. After two earthquakes shook up the waters of devil's hole, its pup fish population plummeted. Only 20 fish were left. While life officials debated what to do, just as the federal workforce was experiencing mass firings and a government shutdown loomed. Moving quickly, biologists took some pup fish from a backup population that had been established in captivity over a decade ago, and released them
into devil's hole. Those fish survived. Babies started appearing, and biologists later added in some additional captive bread fish. This spring, an official count found 77 devil's hole pup fish swimming around their rocky fish bowl in the desert. NL Greenfield Boy's NPR News.
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is now the second longest serving justice in history
overtaking someone who is nominated by President Lincoln. Thomas's tenure as of today, tops 34 years, the only justice with a longer tenure is William O. Douglas whom he would overtake in 2028. This is NPR News. On Consider This NPR's afternoon news podcast, we cover everything from politics to the economy to the world, but every story starts with a question. NPR stands for your right to be curious to make sense of the biggest story of the day
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