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The Senate is set to vote later today on billions of dollars for immigration enforcement,
“but first, it must deal with attempts by both Democrats and Republicans to kill off the”
president's plan to compensate people who claim they were targeted by the federal government, and PRSAM Green last explains. Approving three years of funding for ice and border patrol should have been a "sinch." Republicans do not need help from Democrats. With the measure stalled for two weeks, amid GOP blowback to the unrelated so-called anti-weaponization
fund. Earlier this week, acting attorney general Todd Blanch promised the fund was dead. Only for President Trump to say he didn't know if the fund was scrapped. Some Republican senators have criticized Trump of sabotaging his own priorities. Sam Green last NPR News, Washington.
A new study suggests President Trump's deployment of national guard troops to Washington, D.C.
“It's helped to reduce property crimes in the city with little effect on violent crime.”
NPR's Kat Lonstorf says a number of guard members in the nation's capital is set to double as the U.S. marks its 250th anniversary. President Trump deployed the national guard to D.C. back in August of last year, as part of a federal task force to fight crime. Researchers at the NISC and Center in D.C. studied police and crime data in the city, adjusting
it to isolate the effect of the guard deployment. What they found was that the deployment itself has had very little to no effect on violent crime in the city, which had already been trending down before Trump came back into office. The study did find that the presence of the guard produced one notable improvement, about a 24% reduction in opportunistic crimes like theft and vehicle break-ins.
That has come at a steep cost of taxpayers, more than $1.5 million per day for around
2,800 troops in the city. Kat Lonstorf and Piano News, Washington.
“"Close Trump ally turned critic John Bolton has reached a plea deal that appears to resolve”
the Justice Department's criminal case against him, a person familiar with the matter says the president's former national security adviser during his first term plans to plead guilty to mishandling classified documents. Israeli-Airstrikes and Gaza killed at least nine people early today, according to the health ministry. We have more from NPR's MS Baba."
For Israeli helicopters launched missiles at apartments in Gaza City in the hours before dawn. The nearly simultaneous attacks took place without warning, among those killed, where the parent and two younger siblings of a nine-year-old Hala Lubat, leaving her the sole survivor of her family after she was bolted from the rubble. These Israeli military told NPR, "The attacks targeted senior Hamas members,
the attacks comes as Gaza's health ministry says, "May was the deadliest month this year with 119 Palestinian killed." Israel is also expanding its control over Gaza,
troops occupy more than 60 percent of the territory now,
and a small bow and per-news Gaza City. "It's NPR." Under the threat of more cross-border missile and drone strikes exchange with Ukraine, Russia is hosting a major economic forum in St. Petersburg. Russian President Vladimir Putin was slated to address the event Friday. A new study reveals wildfires are reversing more than a decade of progress the U.S. has made
and making the air cleaner. In the journal science, a research shows, a national smog level fell, 11 percent from 2003 to 2015 as a government-imposed stricter emission standards, but as wildfires have grown, the country's average ground level ozone increased by 4 percent. On this track, the studies lead off their warrants, smog will return to 2003 levels in some 20 years. There's been a wave of proposals in policies limiting screens and classrooms across the U.S.
over the last year, but NPR, as Genaki Mitha, reports some students with disabilities feel their needs are being left behind. California ninth grader, Sarai Martin, loves creative writing. She says stories come naturally to her. But words are different. I have dyslexia, so I've struggled with that my whole life. She'd resisted using assistive technology like dictation software until last year, because she just didn't want to feel singled out at school,
but then it changed everything. I started getting really good grades, and it made me feel more confident in myself. Now, a screen limit policy is a rolling out quickly across the country, disability advocates worry assistive technology built into cell phones, laptops, and tablets could be unintentionally swept up too. They hope state and school leaders slow down to include disabled voices in the National Conversation, Genaki Mitha and Pair News. It's NPR.
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