"Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton, a federal judge dismiss...
charges against Kilmar, Abrego Garcia, his wrongful deportation last year, became an embarrassment
“for the Trump administration when it was ordered to return him to the U.S., he's still”
fighting efforts to deport him." Lawyers for Mahmoud Khalil are asking the Supreme Court to hear his case. He argues the Trump administration targeted him for deportation because of his pro-Palestinian views and PR Security Johnson reports.
Immigration authorities arrested Khalil last year the first of several actions against
international students who spoke out about the conflict in Gaza. Lawyers eventually won his release, but the Trump administration is trying to remove him from the U.S. by claiming he misrepresented his work history. Khalil has accused the government of misconduct. His complex legal problems are playing out in three separate courts.
Now his lawyers say they will petition the Supreme Court to review the case. The ACLU says if he can be arrested for his speech, the administration can do the same to anyone within an unpopular opinion. Carrie Johnson, NPR News. After an unusual request from the Trump administration, a Rhode Island hospital, since it released
“patient files to a court in Texas, as NPR salina Simmons' stuff in explains the files”
belong to transgender youth.
President Trump signed an executive order on his first day in office to end gender affirming
care for youth across the country. Since then, the administration has launched many investigations into hospitals, and many of them have ended gender programs fearing they could lose all federal funding. Josh Robinger, legal director at Glad Law, explains that the government continues to escalate its efforts.
The Department of Justice did was go to the northern district of Texas and move to enforce one of the administrative subpoenas as to Rhode Island Hospital. The move was challenged in a Rhode Island federal court, and amidst the confusion, the hospital says it has released some anonymized patient data to district court judge Rita Conner in Texas. Salina Simmons' stuff in NPR News.
The new chair of the Federal Reserve Kevin Worsh says he hopes to wrestle inflation and PR's Scott Horsley reports.
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas administered the oath in the White House East Room.
“Horsh is the first Fed Chairman be sworn in there since Alan Greenspan in the 1980s.”
By design, the Fed is supposed to be insulated from political interference. President Trump has repeatedly challenged those boundaries, though, attacking the central bank for not slashing interest rates. Trump hinted at a different approach with Horsh. I want Kevin to be totally independent.
I want him to be independent and just do a great job. Don't look at me. Don't look at anybody. Just do your own thing and do a great job. The interest rate cuts are less likely now that the U.S. war with Iran is putting upward
pressure on gas prices and inflation. Scott Horsley and Pernu is Washington. This is NPR News. 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-doping 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 games. Driverless Car Company Waymo has suspended services in Atlanta in Texas after one of its
vehicles was stranded by flooding during heavy rains. From a member station W.A.B.E. Christopher Austin reports more storms are expected this weekend. A Waymo vehicle got stuck during a downpour in Atlanta on Wednesday that flooded streets and even part of a downtown highway.
The company says the vehicle was not occupied and was later recovered. At least one other Waymo vehicle was way late during the storm. Waymo serves only the city of Atlanta in Georgia and services several cities in Texas. The company said in a statement its pause service in Texas out of an abundance of caution for the forecasted severe weather.
Waymo has not confirmed when service will resume in either state. The National Weather Service says rain and thunderstorms are expected across much of the Central and South Eastern U.S. over the weekend with the possibility of some turning severe. For NPR News I'm Christopher Austin in Atlanta.
Saxophone's Dick Perry died today. He played on pink Floyd classics like money and shine on you crazy diamond guitarist David Gilmore wrote that Perry's tone had a signature of enormous beauty. Dick Perry was 83 years old. This is NPR News
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