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The Justice Department announced charges, including murder against former Cuban President
Raoul Castro.
“It comes as the Trump administration escalates pressure on the country's socialist government.”
The indictment alleges Castro played a role in the 1996 shoot down of two small planes operated by the exile group, brothers to the rescue. Castro was Cuba's defense minister at the time." President Trump at his company's may receive a free pass for any past tax problems. And perhaps immunity for even more legal trouble is part of a settlement with the IRS
for leaking his tax returns. The administration says that Trump won't benefit from the deal. The critics say it's an abuse of the system. His NPR is a carried Johnson reports. "Tax experts, I interviewed say nobody else would have got this deal and that Trump and
his family could, in fact, receive financial benefits from the dropping of tax audits. Connecting attorney general Todd Blanch is the one who signed off on that part of the deal. He's a former personal attorney for Trump, but he blocked it that description before Congress this week."
NPR's carry Johnson reporting, two police officers who defended the capital during the January 6 capital riot are suing to stop the Trump administration from paying rioters from a new anti-repidization fund, NPR's Tom Drysbach reports. Washington DC police officer Daniel Hodges was repeatedly assaulted by rioters on January 6.
President Trump pardoned the men who attacked him, and now the administration says those
rioters and others can apply for payment from a new $1.8 billion fund set up by the Justice
Department for people who believe they were victims of weaponized law enforcement. Hodges is suing to stop payouts that he believes are both illegal and dangerous. "If they get this payout, then they'll have significant financial resources and they have no ethical qualms about it. So what would stop them from carrying out any more violence?"
Trump administration officials say they will evaluate claims on a case-by-case basis. Tom Drysbach and PR News As Senate committee heard from industry stakeholders about the rise in sports betting and prediction markets today, and PR is a lot of wise reports, lawmakers wanted to determine if the industry is being regulated closely enough.
Industry stakeholders answered questions about how the integrity of sports can be maintained with gambling and whether prediction markets, which allow users to bet on anything from
the weather to military assassinations operate it legally.
They also heard about the effects of gambling. Harry Livent is the director of gambling policy at the Public Health Advocacy Institute. "This is not a Republican issue or a Democratic issue. This is a human issue regarding an addiction crisis that needs to be addressed and prevented." Studies have shown that legalizing gambling can lead to worse financial outcomes for
“Americans, but supporters of the sector say it's key to the American economy.”
Alonowise and PR News Washington "This is NPR News from Washington." Harvard University will limit the number of A's awarded to undergrad. It's intended to curb grade inflation, starting fall of 2027, instructors may award A grades to more than 20 to no more than 20% of students in a class, plus four additional
students. A minus grades will not be capped, supporters say that the changes will restore the meaning of top grades after more than 60% of undergraduate grades were in the A range in recent years. The National Trust for Historic Places released its annual list of the most endangered sites in the U.S. and Paris Netton Ulibi reports.
The list of 11 places has a theme, honoring the idea that all people are created equal. It includes the oldest Quaker Meeting House in Massachusetts, and a few sites that have been affected by President Trump's administration, including the President's House in Philadelphia, where the National Park Service removed some information about enslaved people there.
National Trust President Carol Quillin calls that "historical erasure." "That's a threat to preservation that we're also interested in protesting." The National Trust is currently suing the Trump administration over its construction of a ballroom on White House grounds. A seagull has left a lasting impression on King Charles during his visit to Northern Ireland.
The bird dropped a surprise on the King's suit coat. The King whipped that it was fortunate it didn't land on his head earlier in the day that King seemed to foreshadow the event during a visit to a food pantry.
“When he picked up a role of toilet paper and said, "Very important."”
U.S. stock market bounced back today after oil prices gave back some of their big gains. This is NPR News. This week on NewsMakers, Dana White, the head of the UFC. "We're at a place where people can't even talk anymore and if they find out that I'm French with the President, I'm a mega-peasy-f**k."
"I mean, I'm talking to NPR right now." "Right? I talk to everybody." A dialogue with Dana White about politics, culture, and masculinity on NPR's NewsMakers.
