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The Justice Department says it will abide by a federal court order.
“It temporarily pauses the administration's nearly $1.8 billion fund for people who claim”
they were targets of politicized prosecutions. The fund has come under sharp criticism from both parties, and PR'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 capital rioters, who attacked police, could receive payments from it. Ryan Lucas and PR News, Washington.
“As tensions remain high at the Newark New Jersey Delaney Hall, Mike's detention facility,”
New Jersey Senator and former Newark Mayor Corey Booker is adding to the ongoing concerns about conditions inside. These measures, many of those being held are being treated inhumanely. Meanwhile, demonstrators have periodically clashed with police outside the facility. Booker told NPR a former Trump administration border patrol official is among those
he says trying to stir up trouble. We have a lot of people from the proud boys to Greg Bavino coming from outside of our state to try to escalate violence and conflict and from the facility and distract from the moral urgency of this facility that should be closed. Over the weekend, New Jersey Governor Mikey Cheryl established a protected protest zone
after officer's fired tear gas. Police in Muscatine, Iowa, said that seven people, including the gunman are dead, in a series of shootings Monday involving a domestic dispute with members of the same family.
Four people died in the first shooting.
It took place in midday.
“Later that afternoon, police found that they believed the shooter with a self-to-inflicted”
gunshot wound he died at the scene, taking his own life while police were talking with him. Muscatine, police chief Anthony Keys, held a news conference Monday to update the community on the status of the shooting. A paut arrival officers located four victims inside the residents.
All four victims had suffered gunshot wounds and were pronounced deceased at scene. A short time later, police discovered two additional victims bringing to seven the total number of people who died including the suspect. The chief said the suspect had a previous criminal record, but did not share any additional details.
You're listening to NPR news from Washington. Tuesday is a primary election day in several states, including California, where voters will decide to finalise to seek the governor's office in November. In all 61 candidates are on the so-called non-partisan jungle ballot. The current governor, Gavin Newsom, is term-limited.
There's also an election for the mayor of Los Angeles. Voters will cast ballots in Iowa for the U.S. Senate seat and to governor's office where the two Republican office holders decided not to seek re-election. And in New Jersey, there's a U.S. Senate primary house races as well, South Dakota has primaries for the U.S. Senate the governor and for the House of Representatives.
Only one crossing into Gaza is open for aid in commercial goods is NPR's Honest Baba
in Gaza reports on how the closure of a second crossing has impacted the flow of aid
into the war-torn territory. The U.N. says Israel has only allowed commercial goods and aid to enter Gaza through a single crossing since May 24th. Israel's military says the current shallow crossing is all Gaza needs. Israel's military unit, News as co-ga, told NPR, "There is no need for more crossings
because 600 trucks a day are entering through the Karim Shalom crossing, which Israel controls. Gaza's borders authorities dispute that, and you and figures show just 225 of its eight trucks have entered Gaza over the past nine days. That is down from 600 trucks entering over the previous nine days when two crossings were open.
The U.N. says a fifth of Palestinians in Gaza eat only one meal a day, it'll." And you're listening to NPR News from Washington. This week on "Sources and Methods", what a p-steal between the U.S. and Iran might look like. Just as similar would it be to the Obama administration deal that President Trump ripped
up? If Trump allows some enrichment, which is what the Iranians demand, then everyone's going to be saying, "Well, wait a minute, how was this different from what Obama had?" Plus more the week's biggest national security news on "Sources and Methods", listen
