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The top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee is blasting a deal to exempt President
“Trump and his family from tax audits, as a "brazen abuse of power."”
NPR Scott Horsley reports Oregon Senator Ron Wyden tried to grill the Treasury Secretary about that agreement today. "The Treasury Secretary Scott Besant declined to answer questions about a deal granting the President and his family immunity from tax audits, saying that's the subject of ongoing litigation.
But Senator Wyden was not satisfied. Wyden says it's wrong to exempt the President and his family from the kind of tax scrutiny that other Americans routinely face." It's the ultimate case of an ultra-wealthy individual living under one set of rules, while everybody else lives under another, a crooked double standard that benefits Trump and
family. The Justice Department agreed to the audit immunity after Trump sued the IRS over leaked tax returns.
In the other part of the settlement, an ultimate billion dollar restitution fund was dropped
after bipartisan complaints.
“Scott Horsley and PR News was washing time.”
Global oil prices pushed higher again today following the latest clashes to surfestoring a formal ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran. The U.S. military says Iran fired missiles toward Bahrain and Kuwait. It says force is struck in Iranian military ground control station on an island in the straight of harm moves.
The World Health Organization has significantly reduced the official case count of the Ebola outbreak in Central Africa. But, as NPR is Jonathan Lambert explains, the outbreak still poses a great risk to the region. Last week, over 1,000 people were suspected to be infected with Ebola in the Democratic
Republic of Congo and Uganda. But as testing has ramped up, health officials found that many of those people didn't have Ebola. Now, 344 cases have been confirmed in DRC with an additional 116 suspected cases. Still, WHO Director General Tedros Arlam Gabriacus is urging countries to stay on alert.
“"The British's risk assessment remains unchanged.”
Very high at the national level, high at the regional level, and low at the global level." Officials are still behind on responding to the outbreak he said, but starting to catch up. Base use announced several new treatment facilities in heavily affected areas, and so
far, six people have recovered. Jonathan Lambert and PR News. "And Army veterans, more than 15 hours stand off with the FBI ended early this morning in Bakersfield, California, when he was shot and killed. Local police say the suspect, Anthony Scott Serles Harris, had taken 10 school employees
hostage inside an office building. It also issued bomb threats, federal and state authority say the 41-year-old's criminal history included sexual crimes related to a minor. He also went AWOL after a year in the military and was dishonorably discharged. This is NPR News."
Open AI CEO Sam Altman is in Washington for meetings with the White House and members of Congress. His visit coming a day after President Trump signed an executive order creating a volunteer
a government review process for some of the most powerful artificial intelligence models,
and PR's Windsor Johnston has details. Altman is meeting with White House officials to discuss AI policy, as well as bipartisan congressional lawmakers who oversee the technology sector. The visit comes as AI companies increasingly find themselves at the center of policy debates in Washington.
While the industry has invested heavily in lobbying and public outreach, some Democrats are pushing for tougher oversight of artificial intelligence, citing concerns about jobs, energy demand, and the growing influence of the nation's largest tech companies. Republicans have pushed for a lighter regulatory approach. President Trump's executive order includes a provision that would allow some advanced
AI models to undergo a 30-day government review before the release to the public. Windsor Johnston and PR News, Washington. General election matchups are decided in several more states after voters decided primary races yesterday. President Trump's endorsement streak did not pay off an "I" was gubernatorial contest.
His candidate represented a ready-feans rep narrowly lost the Republican nomination of farmer and businessmen's act laying. Actor Shialobov is being spared jail time for punching people outside of New Orleans Bar during Marty Grond february in court today he pleaded guilty to three counts of simple battery.
I'm Lakshmi Singh and PR News Brazil used to have one of the fastest growing economies in the world. People called it the "country of the future." "There are songs, obrazi, well-païe, do futur, because it seems like we have it all, man." But then the music stopped.
On the planet money podcast, a lot of countries these days aren't rich, they aren't poor, they're just kind of stuck in the middle.
Why is that?
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