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Tulsi Gabbard is resigning as President Trump's director of National Intelligence.
“She says she's leaving to support her husband who's battling a rare bone cancer.”
NPR's Franco Adornia's reports in a letter to President Trump gathered thank the president for the opportunity to leave the office of the Director of National Intelligence. But she said she needed to be there for her husband. She wrote, "I cannot, and good conscience, ask him to face this fight alone, while I continue in his demanding and time-consuming position."
Gabbard is the latest in a series of cabinet officials to leave the Trump administration. Other departures include Homeland Security Secretary Christy Nome and Attorney General Pam Bondi.
Trump commended Gabbard for doing a "incredible job," and said he will miss her.
He added that principal deputy director of National Intelligence, Aaron Lucas, will serve as acting director of National Intelligence. Franco, Ordonias, and Pianos, the White House. SpaceX conducted the 12th test of its massive new Starship rocket and PR's Jeff Brunfield reports the test was partially successful.
The huge Starship rocket shot into space from its launch pad in South Texas. 4, 3, the ignition.
“The rocket's massive booster separated, but its engines failed to steer back to Earth”
and it was lost before it could return to its planned. And it looks like the booster and its mission there in the Gulf, but we've got a ship still flying. Starship also had some engine trouble, but it made it to space where it released some test satellites.
Then it landed in the southern Indian Ocean. The mixed outcome of the test comes just a few weeks before SpaceX plans to go public.
Starship is a critical part of its future, Jeff Brunfield and PR news.
With this hour, the radio dial is losing one of its signature voices and PR's Scott Horstley reports, after 99 years on the year, CBS Radio is signing off for the last time. From Edward R. Murrow's eyewitness accounts of wartime London to Charles Osgood's ride.
Sometimes rhyming commentaries, CBS was a pioneer in broadcast news. Its morning drive flagship, the world news round up, is the longest-running newscast in the country. But the audience, for Radio in general, has been shrinking, has technology and listening habits change.
CBS's parent company was sold to David Ellison's Skydance media last year and the new owners announced in March. The radio network would go dark this weekend. Christopher Cruz was tapped to anchor the network's final broadcast. Cruz told MPR's morning edition he'd be thinking of all the radio voices who'd gone
before and what they built. Scott Horstley and PR newswashington. A federal judge has dismissed human smuggling charges against Kilmar Abrago Garcia. He's the man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador last year and served time in a maximum security prison.
This is NPR news. The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is spreading rapidly. NPR's Jonathan Lambert reports there are now more than 800 suspected in confirmed cases and at least 170-7 deaths.
It being declared only one week ago, this Ebola outbreak has already become the third largest
on record. The WHO says the risk outside of the region is low, but high in Central Africa. There is some good news. On Friday, WHO officials said that there have been no new cases reported in neighboring Uganda after the two that popped up last weekend.
As the virus spreads in Northeastern DRC, response teams are scrambling to contain the outbreak. There are no approved vaccines or treatments for this particular species of Ebola, so basic
“public health measures like contact tracing are key.”
WHO officials say that over 1,400 contacts of suspected cases have been notified and are being tracked for any signs of illness. Jonathan Lambert and PR news. Kevin Worsh is now the new chairman of the Federal Reserve. He was sworn in Friday at the White House pledging to remain independent.
President Trump has said numerous times he wants the Fed to cut interest rates in that former chairman Jerome Powell cap rates to high, which he claims slowed the economy. The squaring in ceremony, it was for the first time in early 40 years, held at the White House instead of the Federal Reserve. All three stock indexes closed up on Friday.
They dial added 294 points closing at a record. 50,579, the S&P added 27 points, the NASDAQ also was positive, adding 50. This is NPR News. I'm Dan Ronan. 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, we stand for your right to be curious to make sense of the biggest story of the day and what it means for you. Follow Consider This, wherever you get your podcasts.
