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The Trump administration has announced a creation of a nearly $1.8 billion fund to compensate
“the President's allies who believe they were unjustly investigated and prosecuted by the”
Biden administration. And PR Security Johnson says the fund was announced Monday by the Justice Department as part of a deal to resolve President Trump's lawsuit against the IRS over the leak of his tax returns. Justice Department says it's creating an anti-weaponization fund for $1.776 billion.
That's 1776 after the country's founding. And that fund is going to consider claims from folks who say they suffered weaponization and law fair. That could include people who attacked the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, including defendants who beat up the police that day.
This money is taxpayer money. It's not clear the identities of people who win money from
this fund will ever be reported to the public.
Democrats and government watch dogs are pledging to fight the resolution of the case. World Health Organization is declared a new outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda to be an international public health emergency.
“And PR's ping-hong reports that U.S. health officials are working to evacuate exposed”
Americans. Dr. Satish Peel-i is managing the Ebola response for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. There's one case of Ebola in an American who's exposed as part of their work in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The person develops symptoms over the weekend and tested positive late Sunday. Peel-i says they're being moved to Germany, along with six other Americans that are considered high-risk contacts, treatment, and observation.
Germany, because their doctors have experienced with Ebola patients and it's quicker to fly
there. Ebola disease is rare but deadly. Health officials believe this outbreak started in late April. It has already seconded at least 300 people and killed more than 100. Ping-hong and PR News.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced a fresh round of sanctions against Cuba, targeting
“11 individuals, and three government bodies in Piers' Michelle KELOMER reports that Rubio”
has been stepping up pressure on Cuba. The Interior Ministry, the National Police and the Directorate of Intelligence, are now all facing sanctions, Cuba's justice and energy ministers are among the 11 individuals single doubt. Any property they may have in the U.S. will be frozen and Americans are barred from doing
business with them. Secretary Rubio says in a statement that these, quote, "regime aligned actors are to blame for the suffering of the Cuban people and the failing economy." Cuba blames the U.S. oil embargo for the latest humanitarian crisis. The U.S. rejects that but the crisis began after the Trump administration ousted the
leader of Venezuela, which was Cuba's main oil supplier, Michelle KELOMER and PR News, the State Department. And you're listening to MPR News. Police in San Diego say they are investigating Monday shooting at a mosque as a hate crime. The shooting happened at the Islamic Center of San Diego police say two teenage suspects
opened fire, killing three men before killing themselves, a police chief says the suspects were found dead and in nearby vehicle. A jury in California ruled Monday that Elon Musk waited too long to file claims against open AI and its CEO, Sam Altman. But his impure Shon Ruach reports from a illegal team says they will appeal.
Musk accused Altman and others of breaching a charitable trust when they turned to open AI into a for-profit entity that's now worth hundreds of billions of dollars. The artificial intelligence juggernaut was found at 11 years ago as a non-profit to benefit humanity. Musk was there at the beginning but left after disagreement.
He argued that Altman and Open AI President Greg Brockman jettisoned Open AI's founding mission and profited from the creation of its for-profit arm. The jury of nine people took less than two hours to decide that the case, which was filed in 2024, was outside the three-year statute of limitations. The judge in the case agreed and dismissed the claims immediately.
John Ruach, NPR News, Oakland, California. Major financial markets in Asia are mixed in Tuesday trading and oil prices are easing after President Trump said Monday that he's putting off a military strike on Iran that had been planned for Tuesday. Trump said Monday that U.S. goal foulies asked him to hold off because they believe
a deal with Iran is close. Shares in Tokyo, South Korea are down but up slightly in Hong Kong and Shanghai, Benchmark crude, remains above $110 per barrel. New shows, new music, new movies, keeping up with pop culture sometimes feels like a full-time job.
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