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$70 billion to fund federal immigration enforcement efforts. Democrats put up numerous
“amendments that were all blocked by Republicans. One amendment blocked was a proposal to stop”
a nearly two billion dollar justice department fund. It would pay people who claim they've been persecuted by the federal government. President Trump is facing some headwinds, his choice for acting director of national intelligence bill Pulti is facing criticism for not having any experience in the field. Gas prices remain high because of the war. At the same time, many of Trump's candidates have won Republican primary elections this year,
and Beer's Franco Ortonius says the president could still see growing support." "He's come back so many times before after the 2020 election, after the January 6 riots,
and frankly, a lot could change in the next few months, especially if the war in Iran
ends and gas prices go down. I mean, Trump could be looking better politically if the
“economy proves." And Beer's Franco Ortonius reporting. President Trump says he is building a”
pedestrian bridge to connect the Lincoln Memorial to the Potomac River. It would be yet another on a list of building and renovation projects the president has undertaken around Washington DC, and Beer's Daniel Kurt Sleven has more. Trump tees the latest plan from the Oval Office. "It's called the Promenade. They want to call it the Trump Promenade, but I don't know if I would do this, but it's going to be beautiful. It's a beautiful project."
Interior Secretary Doug Bergom explained that the bridge would go over the roads that separate the Lincoln Memorial from the nearby river. Neither Trump nor Bergom said how much the project would cost or where the funding would come from. This year, Trump has also torn down the White House East Wing to build a ballroom that he has said will include a military complex underneath.
“He has also set in motion plans to build a massive arch across the river from the Lincoln Memorial.”
Daniel Kurt Sleven and PR news the White House. Kenyus President has defended his administration's decision to allow the U.S. to set up an Ebola quarantine facility in the East African nation. As Michael Coloki reports, deadly protests have erupted over this. "The right thing." Last week, the White House had said that the U.S. was setting up a facility in Kenya, where Americans who had been exposed to Ebola would be quarantined.
A Kenyan portality to temporarily suspended plans to set up the facility. Earlier this week, protests against the quarantine center were held in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, and the town of Nanuki, where two people were killed. Meanwhile, East Africa's regional economic block, the EAC, said that mobile Ebola testing medical labs had been deployed to some member nations, including Uganda and the Democratic Republic
of Congo, which have both declared an outbreak of the disease, for Imperial News and Michael Coloki in Nairobi. "You're listening to NPR news from Washington." The Trump administration is imposing sanctions on Cuba's president Miguel Diaz Canal and some of his family members. The sanctions also target former President Role Castro's son in Grandson. This comes as the U.S. is increasing pressure on the Cuban government.
The U.S. Labor Department will release its monthly snapshot of the nation's jobs pictured later this morning. Analysts expect a little more than 100,000 jobs were created in May that's considered good, but it would be fewer than the number of jobs created in April. A new report finds that children in the U.S. spend nearly four more hours on screens per week during the summer compared to the school year. As NPR's re-to-chattergy explains,
"The rise in summertime screen news is paralleled by a fall in kids well-being." The report was released by Aura, an online safety company that also has a parental monitoring app for kids devices. It found that among kids age 7 to 12 years, screen time jumped by 30
percent in the summer compared to the school year. For teens, it rose by 15 percent,
and summer weekday screen news for both age groups stayed at weekend levels. Psychologists Lauren Lee at Aura says nighttime screen news was also high during the summer months. One in 10 kids are still active on their devices even at midnight, and we're seeing messaging rates. Nighttime messaging rates more than doubling across all age groups compared to fall. While younger kids spend most of their screen time using YouTube and Roblox,
teenagers prefer social media apps, read through chatty and peer news. And I'm Kurva Kulman, NPR News in Washington.
