"Live from NPR News in Washington, unrialling Barton, Tulsi Gabbard is resign...
Trump's director of national intelligence," she says she's leaving to support her husband,
“who's battling a rare bone cancer, as NPR's Franco Ordonia's reports.”
"In a letter to President Trump, Gabbard thanked 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." "Ordonia's," NPR News, the White House. "A federal judge has cleared Kilmar Obrigo Garcia of all charges. The court found that the Trump administration's case against him may have been retaliation
after his wrongful deportation to El Salvador gained national attention. Mariana Bakiyao from member station WPLN reports." Prosecutors charged Obrigo Garcia with human smuggling, based on a two-and-a-half-year-old traffic stop in Tennessee. In his ruling judge Waverley Crenshaw found issue with the delay in prosecution.
A Bregog Garcia's federal investigation began only after the Supreme Court ordered he be returned to the U.S. He also pointed to a senior prosecutor who resigned from the
DOJ after his recommendation not to charge a Bregog Garcia went unheeded.
For NPR News, I'm Mariana Bakiyao in Nashville. With this evening's SpaceX, we'll try again to launch its Starship rocket and PR's Jeff Brumfield reports it comes as the company's preparing to become a publicly traded company. SpaceX tried to send Starship to SpaceX yesterday, but with just seconds to go a problem with the launch pad forced them to abort.
"We are going to be standing down from May launch." They're trying again tonight. Earlier this week, SpaceX announced plans for an initial public offering, filing showed
“just how important Starship is to the future of the business. SpaceX wants to use it”
to go to the Moon, build AI data centers in space, and more. So far, Starship tests have had a roughly 50/50 success rate, and I'll say if this next test flight fails, it will likely hurt the company's valuation. Jeff Brumfield and PR News. A bipartisan group of senators is departing for a tour of Arctic nations to reassure
U.S. allies. The group will be entirely women. They're visiting four nations meeting with Arctic militaries and visiting a Norwegian archipelago. So remote, they'll need escorts to avoid run-ins with polar bears. It comes after President Trump threatened to take control of Greenland, which is an autonomous Danish territory.
U.S. stock market closed out its eight-strike winning week today. This is NPR. New York City's iconic pizza reas and bagel shops may soon be forced to update their long-standing baking practices after state lawmakers moved to ban a common additive. The bill would prohibit businesses from using potassium bromide, a key component of a type
“of flour that's widely used at the city's pizza reas and bagel shops.”
The chemical compound is considered a possible carcinogen and is widely banned outside the U.S.
A new report shows that commercial ships on the Great Lakes lost nearly a third of their
season due to heavy ice this winter. As Blase Carpenter of Member Station WCMA, U tells us nearly 100% of the nation's iron or flows through the lakes for steel manufacturing. Dipping industry leaders and the Great Lakes say vessels lost to combine 82 days worth of delays.
They're attributing this to quote, "in adequate ice-breaking operations by the U.S. Coast Guard." Eric Peace is what the "late carriers" association says. He says the layers can have negative ripple effects on national supply chains. "The steel that we're producing here on the Great Lakes, those the places like Texas and other locations where manufacturing occurs, where the building cars or appliances or
whatever. It's a national problem." The Coast Guard says their operations were efficient when assisting hundreds of vessels to safety. For MPR News, I'm Blase Carpenter and Mount Puzzle Michigan.
"A sports competition featuring athletes openly taking performance enhancing drugs will take place in Las Vegas this weekend. The enhanced games will include swimming, track and weightlifting, the world anti-dopeny agency and the International Olympic Committee have criticized the event. Donald Trump Jr.'s investment firm and Peter Teal are part of the company behind the
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