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Senate nomination last night in Kentucky, setting him up to be the likely successor to
“Mitch McConnell, our celebrated the victory with supporters in Lexington, Lillie Burris from”
member station W.E.K.U. has more. McConnell announced his retirement in early 2025, after more than 40 years representing the Commonwealth in Washington. McConnell was the longest serving Senate majority leader. Barre has been representing Kentucky's sixth district since 2013. In his speech in Lexington on Tuesday, Barre reiterated talking points about veterans, Cole, and his common sense beliefs he said Democrats don't share.
"I will fight for our way of life for our farms, our factories, our horse industry, our bourbon, for Cole." Barre received an endorsement from President Donald Trump, giving him an edge over other candidates in the race, including former Attorney General Daniel Cameron. For NPR news, I'm Lily Burris in Lexington. The Justice Department says
“President Trump is family and business have immunity from continuing inquiries into their”
taxes. It's part of a deal that also creates a $1.8 billion compensation fund that benefits
Trump's allies protects the President and his family from pending audits and tax prosecutions. In a one-page document signed by Acting Attorney General Todd Blanch yesterday, that he says the immunity is permanent. That's drawing criticism from both parties, Democratic Senator Chris Coone's calls it illegal. "The President should not be able to direct his Attorney General to pay out a billion dollars, $1.7 billion dollars in tax payer
funds." Without any review by a judge or any review by Congress, we have the power of the PERS. We just need to exercise." Republican Senate Majority Leader John Thunes says he's not a big fan and he doesn't see the point. It's an extraordinary use of executive power that could shield
“Trump from further examination of his finances and legal conduct. The Trump administration”
is funding treatment clinics to try to contain an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda. And here's Michelle Kalman reports the State Department has evacuated seven Americans. The State Department says the U.S. has a "iron-clad commitment to ensuring that its response to the Ebola outbreak is fully resourced and rapid." Officials brush off criticism that the dismantlement of America's main aid agency is
hampering the response. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and his advisors accused the World Health Organization for being slow to identify the outbreak, the U.S. pulled out of the WHO last year. The State Department is sending disaster relief teams to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda and setting up clinics to provide emergency Ebola screening, though that could take weeks. Michelle Kalman and PR news the State Department. You're listening to NPR News from Washington.
Taiwan travel log is the winner of this year's International Booker Prize. It's the first
work translated from Mandarin Chinese to win the prestigious award for the best fiction translated into English and appears Ivy Buck has more. Taiwan travel log is many things. A travel memoir, a culinary adventure through 1930's Japan Occupied Taiwan, and an unexpected love story. The winter daylight filtered through the cafeteria's glass windows shown a halo around Shijon's body. Just like how in this world, in all of heaven and on all of
earth, Shijon was the only person who glowed in my eyes. That's translator Lynn King reading from the book in 2024. It's an awful that chooses to illuminate aspects of normal life during political upheaval, she says, like eating good food, engaging in petty arguments, wondering what movie to watch, and of course, getting butterflies from that special someone across the cafeteria. Ivy Buck and PR News. Several wildfires are burning in southern California. The
evacuation orders have been issued for several areas as the sandy fire burns in Ventura County above Simi Valley, northwest of Los Angeles. By officially it's 5% contained and has burned nearly 1,700 acres, the causes under investigation. Meanwhile, firefighters are also battling another fire on Santa Rosa Island that's about 26% contained, although no evacuation orders have been issued for that fire. On Janine Herbst, and you're listening to NPR News from Washington.
We flush a lot of things down the toilet. You know, the obvious ones, but drugs like cocaine are also going down the drain, and into our waterways. That's changing the animals that live in it. It's definitely present in most of the ecosystem on earth now, unfortunately, throwing this sort of really starting to scratch the surface into understanding the potential consequences of that. Forget cocaine bear. Learn about cocaine salmon, on shortwave, in the NPR app,
