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President Trump is naming housing official Bill Pulti to a new role.
“In addition to his existing titles, acting director of national intelligence.”
NPR is Danielle Kurtzlevin reports, Pulti will replace Tulsi Gabbard, who has announced she will resign at the end of the month. Pulti is currently the head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which oversees Fannie May and Freddie Mac, which support the U.S. mortgage market. Pulti's biography on the agency's website lists no intelligence experience with the bulk
of his career experience in the housing sector. He is a Trump loyalist who, in his current role, last year accused Federal Reserve Board of Governor's Member Lisa Cook of mortgage fraud. Cook has denied wrongdoing. Trump subsequently attempted to fire Cook from the board.
The Supreme Court is set to rule on that case. Pulti is not the only official to serve in multiple roles. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is also the current acting national security adviser. Danielle Kurtzlevin and P.R. News Doctors examined President Joe Biden after his disastrous debate performance, again, President Trump in 2024.
That's according to former First Lady Jill Biden, who told NPR's Scott Detro, she
“was worried in the moment that Biden was suffering a stroke.”
Jill Biden says doctors evaluated the President after he walked off the stage. Once they cleared him, Joe and Jill Biden went on to multiple campaign stops.
The former First Lady says she never saw her husband like that any other time before or
since. That's despite reports quoting former White House staffers, claiming they saw the President that tired and adult at other moments. Never. Never.
And you know what, Scott? No one came to me and said, Jill, I have seen this moment at, you know, blankety blank. No one came to me and said that. Jill Biden is promoting a new memoir called View from the East Wing. Scott Detro and P.R. News, Washington.
In Colorado, a federal judge has halted President Trump from dismantling the country's largest federal climate lab for now. NPR's Kirk Zekeler reports, the lab successfully got a preliminary injunction to
“stop the administration's plans while a broader lawsuit moves forward.”
President Trump's budget, Zara Russell Vote, has been targeting the National Center for Atmospheric Research and Boulder, Colorado since last year, calling it a "premier research stronghold for left-wing climate lunacy." NPR, which is operated by a consortium of major public universities, houses one of the world's largest weather supercomputers.
Its forecasting research has lately been used directly by utilities that have had to make
split-second decisions whether to turn off power lines when major wind events elevate wildfire
danger. In a statement, the lab's director said the judge's decision recognizes NPR's importance to public safety and national security. It's primary election day in six states, including New Jersey, Iowa, Montana, and South Dakota.
This is NPR. The Trump administration is defending its plan to send Americans who may be exposed or infected with Ebola to a facility in Kenya. That appears to be on hold after it was blocked by a Kenyan court. Dr. Momet Oz, the head of Medicare and Medicaid Services, says sending patients back to
the U.S. is too far. We are confident in the state department's working on this, diligently, that they're going to be able to work out something with Kenya. There has already been a fair amount of communication around this issue. There's many places we can send folks, but sending them across the world, as patients
who are not sure it's going on with them is probably not the wisest move. Medical experts say the plan is unprecedented. President Trump has thrown doubt on the safety of Tylenol during pregnancy, asserting that it could be linked to conditions like autism and ADHD. As NPR's Selena Simmons Duffin reports, a major medical society released in updated
position statement, finding that using Tylenol during pregnancy is safe. The society of maternal fetal medicine represents physicians that care for patients with high-risk pregnancies.
For many years, acetaminophen or Tylenol has been the first line treatment for pain and
fever in pregnant patients. When President Trump and health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asserted that it was actually unsafe, the medical association began a new assessment of the evidence. On Monday, the society concluded that a scene of metafine is safe to use in pregnancy. The new position statement points out that untreated fever in pain comes with health
risks, especially early in pregnancy, and that patients shouldn't try to tough it out as President Trump had suggested. Selena Simmons Duffin and PR News. This is NPR News in Washington. Every episode of it's been a minute, NPR's What's Happening in Culture Podcast starts
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