>> Live from NPR News on Giles Snyder.
Comic Stephen Colbert took the stage as host of CBS's
“The Late Show One Last Time Thursday night.”
>> Tonight is our final broadcast from the Ed Sullivan Theatre, where no, no, we were lucky enough to be here for the last 11 years. All right, that was, I can't take this to granted. >> Well, there it took over the show from David Letterman in 2015
last year's CBS announced its cancellation, citing financial reasons. Many suspect political pressure from the Trump administration playing a role. Judges and Tennessee will soon decide whether the state's new
congressional map will stay in effect for the mid-term elections.
The court heard argument serves day in the first
of four legal challenges to the new mat, Mariana Bucky-Out, member station WPLN reports. >> Tennessee became the first state to redistrict after the US Supreme Court ruled that lawmakers don't need to consider race when drawing new maps.
But it's still top of mind for NAACP attorney Anthony Ashton after the new map divided Memphis. >> And that was done.
“As far as we can tell, solely for purposes of making sure”
that the people of Memphis no longer can elect candidates of their choice. >> The NAACP is asking the court to block the maps, arguing that it's too close to the election. But the state argues it's too late to change them back
with all counties except Nashville's on track to implement the new map. For NPR news, I'm Mariana Bucky-Out in Nashville. >> Senate Republicans have left Washington for the Memorial Day holiday recess amid a backlash to President Trump's
$1.8 billion anti-weaponization settlement fund
that could grant money to January six writers and his desire for $1 billion in taxpayer money for his ballroom project, voting abruptly called off Thursday on a measure to fund immigration enforcement agencies
for three years. But his wayland officials have released a few dozen political prisoners far short
“of the hundreds ahead of the country's national assembly”
announced would be freed by weeks end. Among those released, so had been three of the longest-held political prisoners in Venezuela. >> Less than 40 detainees had been released
from Venezuela and prisons as of Thursday morning. According to the Human Rights Group for Open Now, or to hit Rodriguez the head of the National Assembly and the brother of the interim president had said 300 prisoners would be released on humanitarian grounds.
Authorities did release three men, former police officers who had spent each more than 20 years in Venezuela and custody. They were convicted in connection to the deaths of protesters during a 2002 opposition march. Human rights groups say there are at least 400 political prisoners
still held in jails, despite an amnesty law passed this year and pledges of more releases this week, including from President Trump. Kerry Con and PR news. >> This is NPR. The former leader of a Minnesota non-profit
was sentenced Thursday to nearly 42 years in prison. Prosecutors say Amy Bach was at the center
of a scheme to steal nearly $250 million in federal
Monday during day during the COVID pandemic. Her lawyer says she had been unfairly painted as a mastermind. Later Thursday, authorities announced charges against 15 more people accused of fraud in receiving federal payments for a variety
of social services in Minnesota. One of the most prolific drivers in NASCAR history is died. Kyle Bush was 41, and PR is saying on a archie reports. Bush's team said he had been hospitalized with a severe illness.
NASCAR said in a statement the league lost a giant of the sport today. Far too soon. The need for speed is a bush family trademark. Kyle Bush's older brother is Hall of Fame-Racer Kirtblush. His father was a mechanic who did some local racing in Las Vegas.
Kyle Bush started out racing go cards in parking lots and cold effects. By 16, he signed with his first NASCAR team. But NASCAR pulled the rug out from under him. By raising the minimum age for national competitions to 18. He may have gotten a later start.
But that didn't stop him from winning two club series titles over the course of his more than 20 year career. Ayanna Archie and PR news. Indicard driver Alexander Rossi still planning to start Sunday's Indianapolis 500.
During a media day interview on Thursday, Rossi told reporters that a medical team has cleared him to drive. Three days after having surgery on his right ankle in the middle finger of his left hand. He was injured in a crash during a practice run Monday.
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