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purging government websites of information about prosecutions related to the January
“6 Capitol riot, and as NPR's Tom Drysbock reports, the Trump administration deleted information”
about violent assaults of police that day. Late last week, the Justice Department said it was proud to purge its website of what it called partisan propaganda. In practice, that meant deleting news releases about January 6th prosecutions, including cases where rioters were convicted of carrying guns and assaulting police with pepper spray,
tasers, and stolen police batons. It was just the latest move by the Trump administration to rewrite the history of January
6th, following mass partens of the rioters and the announcement of a $1.8 billion anti-weaponization
fund. And Trump officials are not ruling out the possibility that even violent January 6th defendants may receive taxpayer money. From Drysbock and PR news, a federal court is blocking Alabama's attempt to use a congressional map that favors Republicans, and PR's Debbie Elliott reports the ruling comes in a long-running
“redistricting case over black representation.”
A 3-Judged panel is granting a temporary injunction sought by black voters who argued the state is trying to use a map that the same federal court found to intentionally discriminate against them. Alabama's Republican-controlled legislature pushed through the redistricting plan, or earlier this month after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a Louisiana case that race
should not be used to draw district lines. The black congressman, whose district is threatened, Democrat Shimari Figures of Mobile, says he's pleased with the ruling, but notes the fight is far from over. Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall says the state will immediately appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Debbie Elliott and PR news. A new report on housing in the U.S. shows there are fewer affordable homes available to potential buyers and PR's Steven Bassaha reports.
“It's not just that houses have become more expensive since the pandemic, it's that there”
are fewer cheaper homes. In 2019, a family making $75,000 a year could afford about half of all home listings. In 2026, they could afford less than a quarter. This comes from a new report from wheelchair.com in the National Association of Realtors. The idea of evangelists co-authored the report and says some areas are becoming better balanced.
In some high cost areas, like for example San Jose San Francisco and San Diego have even improved compared to pre-pandemic levels. But she says there's a long way to go to making them affordable. Steven Bassaha and PR news. The White House says President Trump had preventative medical and dental exams today and
a post online Trump said, "Everything checked out perfectly, the tradition of the presidential physical goes back decades, though the White House decides what to reveal. This is NPR News from Washington."
Drivers for ride-hailing apps like Uber and Lyft and Massachusetts have become the first
in the nation to certify a union. It's a milestone in the growing effort to organize gig economy workers, labor leaders described the victory as the largest private sector organizing wins since Ford Auto Workers, unionized in 1941. Music fans are celebrating the centennial of jazz musician Miles Davis today.
As NPR's Felix Contreras explains, the hugely influential bandleader and trumpeter was a towering figure of jazz for over eight decades. Miles Davis once claimed he'd changed jazz five or six times in his statement wasn't that far off. From the birth of the cool in the late 1940s, to modal jazz with kind of blue.
To the music of two innovative quintets in the late 1950s in early 1960s, to his very popular records with electric instruments in the early 1970s, Miles Davis's centennial will be celebrated all year long at jazz festivals and tribute concerts around the country this year. Felix Contreras and PR news.
Muslim pilgrims have gathered on Mount Arafat in Saudi Arabia for the second day of the
hajj, considered the pinnacle of the annual pilgrimage. The hajj is a once in a lifetime requirement for Muslims who can afford it and are physically able to perform it despite the sweltering heat they engaged in intense prayers, seeking forgiveness, mercy and blessings. Foxclosed micks today, you're listening to MPR news from Washington.
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