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The Trump administration is working to gain control over billions of dollars in federal
grants.
“It's a change that would affect many fields including science and health, advocates say”
it's jeopardizing the integrity of research in the U.S., and PR's Katie Riddle has more. Typically, this money is approved by scientists at federal agencies, like the National Institutes of Health or the National Science Foundation. If the process is changed, critics fear that the grants will be awarded based on political ideology rather than science.
Tim Snyder is a historian who spoke at an event, put on by the group stand up for science. "No one in the country, regardless of whether they think they are affected by science or not. No one will be unaffected if this sort of rulemaking or rule breaking becomes the norm, then government itself will cease to work."
The administration says the change will be more efficient and reduced fraud, though there
is no evidence of widespread fraud in the federal grant making system. Katie Riddle, in PR News. Homeland Security Secretary Markway and Mullenfield questions from House lawmakers today largely about immigration enforcement operations. Congressman Lou Carey of California asked Mullen whether he was committed to restarting protections
for DACA recipients. "Let's work on that."
“I'll work with you on it, but it hasn't even the President Trump, I believe, supports”
this. So let's work on this. I will work on it, but I will still go back. The fastest way to fix this problem is for Congress to pass something on this. We've been talking, how long would you be in Congress and how long have I been in Congress?
This is an issue. The last time we did this issue, immigration reform, Ronald Reagan was president. But DACA, we can do this like overnight. Mullen appearing before the House Homeland Security Committee. Mounting anger in the UK following the release of police body cam video showing an 18-year-old
student being handcuffed as he laid dying from stab wounds last December. And Paris Lawrence Fair reports that in southern England protesters clash with police overnight. "I got free!" "I got free!" Protesters chant some of Henry Novak's last words.
“They cam footage shows police handcuffing 18-year-old Novak and downplaying his injuries.”
As he repeatedly tells them he's been stabbed and can't breathe. Novak was white, his attacker was from the sick faith, wore a turban, and that man lied to police accusing Novak of racist abuse. Police initially arrested the victim, rather than the killer. This happened last December, and the killer is now serving a life sentence.
But the newly released body cam footage has sparked national outrage, accusations from the far right of quote anti-white prejudice, racial and religious tension, and an investigation into police conduct, Lauren Freyer and PR News Glasgow. You're listening to NPR News. Baker's Field Police in California say the suspect behind a more than 15-hour standoff
with federal and state law enforcement was killed this morning. You say "hocages were freed, unharmed, from an office building that houses a chased-bank branch." As Democrats were to widen a path for regaining seats in Congress in the midterm, as former Navy helicopter pilot Rebecca Bennett, while on the Democratic primary for New Jersey 7th
Congressional District, she'll face New Jersey Representative Tom Cain Jr. He ran unimposed for the GOP nomination. He's been out of public view for months due to an undisclosed illness. A series of papers published in the American Journal of Public Health argue ultra-process foods are the new war on tobacco.
Health advocates are saying it's time to regulate them. Here's NPR's Maria Gadoi. The new papers add to evidence that links over consumption of ultra-process foods to poor health outcomes including diabetes and obesity. But the papers also look at how tobacco giants fill it more as in RJ Reynolds use tactics
learned from cigarettes to develop and sell ultra-process foods when they owned large food firms from the 1980s to the early 2000s. That includes using chemical additives to make products more appealing, says UCSF researcher Laura Schmidt. When people think about these foods, we should be understanding that they are very, very closely
related to cigarettes, particularly in terms of the chemical additives. Those additives are the same. She and others are calling for marketing restrictions and other regulations to curb consumption of ultra-process foods. Maria Gadoi and Piani is this is NPR.
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