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The Justice Department says it will abide by a federal court order that temporarily
“pauses the administration's nearly $1.8 billion fund to people who claim they were”
targets of politicized prosecutions. The fund has come under sharp criticism from both parties, NPR's Ryan Lucas reports." The so-called anti-weaponization fund has been on hold since a federal judge temporarily blocked it last week, and responds to a lawsuit challenging the fund's creation. The order barred the Justice Department from taking any action to create the fund, transfer
money into it, consider claims, or make payments out of it. The pause is necessary to give the court time to hear from both sides on the legal arguments. Now the Justice Department says in a statement that it strongly disagrees with the court order, but it says it will abide by it. The Trump administration continues to face intense and even bipartisan blowback from lawmakers
over the fund, including over the possibility that Capitol rioters who attacked police
could receive payments from it.
Ryan Lucas and PR News, Washington. President Trump says his real and his bolder plan to de-escalate their fight in southern Lebanon.
“Trump says he spoke with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today, and PR's Deepa Shiveram”
has more. Now who had ordered Israeli troops to target areas surrounding Beirut, but now Trump says after his call with Netanyahu, there will be no troops going to Beirut, and that any Israeli troops on their way, quote, "have already been turned back." Trump says he also spoke with representatives from Hezbollah.
Israel's increased aggression against Lebanon, which violates the ceasefire agreed on weeks ago, has complicated ongoing talks to end the U.S. and Israel's war against Iran. Trump pulled out of negotiations after Israel's attacks on Beirut. Trump says the talks are continuing with Iran, though, and moving at what he calls a "rapid pace."
Deepa Shiveram and PR News. Hundreds of people took to the streets in Kenya today, protesting U.S. plans to set up in a bolder quarantine facility, Michael Coloki has more. Protests witnessed in the central town of Nanuki, with local media showing police engaging demonstrators in running battles, many businesses remain closed.
Protests called on the Kenyan government to block the United States from setting up an Ebola quarantine center, at an air force base located in the area. The White House had said last week that the U.S. was establishing a facility in Kenya where Americans who had been exposed to Ebola would be quarantined, adding that those exhibiting
symptoms of the disease would be moved to a third country.
A Kenyan court later temporarily suspended those plans, for NPR News and Michael Coloki in Nairobi. While street closed higher Monday, the S&P added 19 points to close at 7,599, the Dow added 46, the NASDAQ added 14 points, so far for the year, all of the indexes are in positive territory.
This is NPR. NASA Administrator Jerick Isaacson said it may be until 2028 before the Cape Canaveral launch pad that was badly damaged last week in the Blue Origin rocket explosion is repaired and ready to use. In an interview on CNBC, he said the repairs will take some serious time.
Blue Origin has only one launch pad at the Florida Space Facility. Researchers are beginning to understand how the brain identifies individual words, in spoken sentences, NPR's John Hamilton reports. When we listen to a familiar language, we hear words. But Dr. Eddie Chang of the University of California, San Francisco says it's different
when the language is unfamiliar. One of the reasons why a foreign language sounds so fast is that you can't hear the pauses between words. Because there aren't many. When we speak, one word just bumps into the next.
So Chang's team studied brain activity as people listen to different languages. When it was the person's mother tongue, the brain produced a special signal between each word. But in an unfamiliar language, that signal disappeared. The findings suggest that the brain creates its own punctuation to help extract words from speech.
John Hamilton and PR news. Basketball Hall of Fame Coach Rick Adleman, who's the 10th winningest coach in NBA history is done at the age of 79. He coached five teams in the NBA and had 1,042 wins and took the Portland Trailblazers to the NBA finals twice.
He coach Sacramento, used in Minnesota and the Golden State Warriors. He also played in the NBA for six years. This is NPR. Support for NBA. I'm Jesse Thorne.
LeKeef Stanfield is starring in another bonkers booths Riley moving. Does it really vet bonkers if you think about it?
“You know, I think it's a matter of perspective because I often view the world we live in”
as wacky, fantastical and beyond belief. That's on Bullseye. Find us in the NPR app at maximumfund.org or wherever you get your podcasts.
