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President Trump has issued a full pardon for a former Republican congressman convicted
of insider trading.
“As NPR's James Jones reports, the pardon follows appeals for the action from leading”
Republicans. In 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission accused Stephen Boer of using non-public information to buy shares of companies ahead of big announcements. He was convicted by a jury in 2023 and sentenced to 22 months in prison, and appeals court rejected Boer's claim that he was wrongfully convicted and the Supreme Court failed
to take up his case.
Trump has pardoned 13 current or former members of Congress over his two terms, and he continues
to claim that previous Democratic administrations used Department of Justice prosecutions to punish political enemies. In a statement to the Associated Press, Boer says the pardon quote "corrects a politically motivated prosecution." James Jones and PR News
“This is the latest in dozens of parties issued by President Trump to people accused of white”
collar crimes. In Toleda, Ohio, Police and City officials say an urgent manhunt is underway for the suspects
of a mass shooting that injured at least a dozen people, two people are in critical condition.
The victims ranged in age from 14 to 61 years old. George Crowell is Toledo's director of public safety. He said the shooting occurred at one of the most iconic festivals in the city, and he's asking the public for help. "I am imploring my fellow Toledoans to look through your cell phone video and reach out to TPD and help them catch the people who did this."
During a news conference late Saturday, Toledo's deputy police chief Joseph Heffron and said "investigators believe the shooting involved too gunmen, probably shooting at
“each other, but officials have not yet determined what started the gun fire."”
Four people have died on North America's tallest mountain over the last couple of weeks. She'll be Herbert with Member Station Alaska Public Media reports "the latest fatality is one of Denali National Park and Preserve's own Rangers." Robin Pendry of Washington State was a seasonal mountaineering ranger with Denali National Park. The National Park Service says she was out on a climbing patrol when she fell into
a crevasse. Despite rescue efforts, Pendry died on Thursday afternoon. The week prior, three other climbers died after a fall on another part of the mountain. They were members of a Latvian mountaineering expedition traversing a route with several exposed sections. Denali sees climber fatalities almost every few years, though park employee deaths are on common. The National Park Service says it's investigating these incidents.
For NPR News, I'm Shelby Herbert in Fairbanks, and this is NPR News from New York City. The body of an American college student from Hoover, Alabama has been found in a mountainous area outside of Kyoto, Japan. James Weston Haganbotham was vacationing there with his parents and younger brother, but went missing last week. Search and rescue volunteers working with Japanese police found his remains overnight, but officials have not yet released the cause of
his death. His mother Nancy wrote in a Facebook post, "The grief we feel is impossible to put into words." A new market poll finds the public is evenly divided as to whether the Supreme Court justices are motivated by law or politics, but as NPR's Nina Tonberg reports, the numbers on the term limits indicate that the court has a problem. The results of the poll show that the public is split 50-50 on whether Congress should enlarge the court, something it could do with
legislation only, but when asked how they feel about term limits for justices, 79% approved and only 21% were opposed. Indeed, fixed terms drew strong support from Republicans, Democrats, and independence. But imposing fixed terms would likely take a constitutional amendment. The market poll also showed 55% of those surveyed said the Justice Department has filed unjustified criminal cases against Trump opponents. Interestingly, the numbers are
roughly the same for Democrats, Republicans, and independence on this question. Nina Tonberg and PR News, Washington. And I'm Dua Hallie-Sikertel, and PR News in New York City. Every episode of its been a minute, NPR's What's Happening in Culture Podcast starts by asking three questions, "Who? How? Why now?" If the culture's asking it, we're talking about it. At NPR, we stand for your right to be curious, and indulge your cultural curiosity.
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