Live from NPR news on trial Snyder Stephen Colbert saying goodbye to late night
television CBS began broadcasting his final show on the East Coast a short time
“ago fans lined up in the rain outside New York City's Ed Sullivan theater”
today to Big Colbert Fairwell they included Shalini Chabra who also attended
Colbert's first taping 11 years ago. I'm just a big fan of this because I was
here for his first show and now I'm going to be seeing his final show and it's an emotional time but I wish him the best of luck. Colbert's late night rivals including ABC's Jimmy Kimmel airing reruns tonight CBS site of financial reasons for the cancellation but many Colbert fans say it's because of his criticism of President Trump. Secretary of State Marco Rubio heading to
Sweden for a NATO for a minister's meeting impures Michelle Kaleman reports it before taking off Rubio again expressed disappointment that some NATO countries did not let the U.S. military use their bases in the war against Iran. Secretary Rubio says the reason why NATO is good for America is that it gives the United States bases in Europe to project power in the Middle
“East so he says he needs to discuss this with his counterparts in a meeting in”
Sweden. Another big topic is the Strait of Hormuz and Iran's efforts to get money from tolls. No one in the world is in favor of a tolling system. It can't happen it would be unacceptable it would make a diplomatic deal unfeasible if they were to continue to pursue that. So it's a threat to the world that they were trying to do that. Asked about the diplomacy Rubio says
the U.S. is dealing with an Iranian system that is in his words a little fractured. Michelle Kaleman and PR News the State Department. Federal law enforcement officials announced charges Thursday against 15 people in Minnesota for allegedly stealing more than $90 million in federal funds. Here's Minnesota Public Radio's Kyra Mile. Charges included submitting bills for healthcare
services never rendered and defrauding child care assistance programs and
autism service centers. Federal officials say this is the largest autism
“fraud scheme ever charged by the Department of Justice. Colin McDonald who”
leads the DOJ's national fraud enforcement division says this is the beginning of a renewed effort to eradicate fraud across the country. Our cases today involve seven different state-managed Medicaid programs that have been systematically pilfered by fraudsters who treated Minnesota run programs as their personal piggy bank. The DOJ also announced a new
expansion of the healthcare fraud Midwest strike force in Minnesota. They're hiring 15 more prosecutors. For NPR News I'm Caramiles and St. Paul. Also in Minnesota the former leader of a nonprofit was sentenced to 182 years in prison prosecutors say Amy Bach was at the center of a scheme to steal nearly
$250 million in federal money during the COVID pandemic. This is NPR News.
Senate Republicans have left Washington for the Memorial Day holiday recess amid a backlash to President Trump's $1.8 billion weaponization settlement fund that could grant money to January six rioters voting was abruptly called off Thursday on a roughly $70 billion bill to fund immigration enforcement agencies for three years. Trump had said a June 1st deadline for the measure but majority
leader John Thune told reporters that delayed vote is linked to the weaponization fund. The Democratic Republic of Congo's national soccer team has canceled a World Cup training camp because of the Ebola outbreak in the country. Michael Koloki reports a team is scheduled to play in Houston in the coming weeks. The training camp as well as a plant farewell event to fans that has also been
cancelled were due to take place in the country's capital Kinshasa. The team will now undertake the World Cup preparations elsewhere. All of the team's players as well as their coach are based in other countries with several of the players playing for French soccer teams. Some of the national teams officials are based in Congo following the recent Ebola outbreak the U.S. Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention has prohibited the entry of foreign nationals who have been in the Democratic Republic of Congo Uganda and South Sudan 21 days prior to their arrival in the U.S. The Congolese team is due to play Portugal in Houston next month in the opening world Cup much for NPR news at Michael Koloki in Nairobi. The regional financial markets in Asia advancing in Friday trading to
Pansney K leading the way up more than 2% after Wall Street edge tire following a drop in oil prices. I'm Drial Snyder, NPR News news shows new music new movies keeping up with pop culture sometimes feels like a full-time job. Thankfully over at pop culture happy-hour it's literally our job. We break down what's actually worth watching listening to and pretending you already knew
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