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President Trump has signed legislation that funds ICE and the Border Patrol through the remainder of his term. It's a win for Republicans who are able to pass it after months of pushback from Democrats and PR's a deepest shiver on reports." Trump blamed Democrats for the delay in getting the bill passed and he celebrated that
the funding will go through the end of his term, a major win for the president and his immigration agenda.
“It will give the heroes of ICE and Border Patrol, and that's what they are, they're heroes for what they have to go through to keep us safe.”
The support and resources they need to defend our borders.
The bill provides $70 billion in funding to Department of Homeland Security agencies like ICE and Customs and Border Protection.
Democrats wanted reforms to immigration enforcement policies after U.S. officials shot and killed two people in Minnesota, but Republicans were able to get the funding passed without them. He'd be a shiver on and PR news the White House. NPR has obtained a letter from ICE to members of Congress that provides insight into the agency's data collection practices on protestors. As NPR's a Jude Jofi Block reports, peaceful observers have argued their first amendment rights are being violated when they're surveilled and tracked by federal agents.
“Former acting director of ICE Todd Lyons has denied his agency has a database of protestors.”
Lyons recently departed his post, but after Florida Congressman Maxwell Frost and other Democrats posed additional questions. Earlier this year, Lyons wrote a response back in April that NPR is the first media outlet to review. The letter indicates that ICE gives itself wide latitude to collect biographic and biometric data on people who agents believe are threatening officer safety or impeding operations. Civil liberties advocates say it's the clearest official acknowledgement yet that ICE may be routinely gathering and preserving information on protestors and observers who are not arrested.
Jude Jofi Block and PR news. A wartime spike in gasoline prices has pushed inflation to its highest level in more than three years. And PR's Scott Horsey reports in the latest cost of living data from the Labor Department.
Consumer prices in May were up 4.2 percent from a year ago. That's the biggest annual increase since April of 2023.
Prices rose by half a percent between April and May with energy cost accounting for more than 60 percent of that monthly increase. Stripping out volatile food and energy cost so-called core inflation was 2.9 percent for the 12th month sending in May a slightly larger annual increase than the previous month.
“Gasoline prices have moderated in recent days, but are still about a dollar 17 a gallon higher than they were before the US and Israel launched their war on Iran.”
Triple A says the average price of regular gas is about $4.15 a gallon. Scott Horsey and PR news Washington. The world cup begins tomorrow in Mexico. The tournament was expanded this year to 48 teams and will take place in 16 stadiums across Mexico the US and Canada over 39 days. Another sell-off for AI stocks dragged the US market down today. This is NPR news from Washington. New York has implemented a law requiring advertisements featuring AI generated people to clearly label them as synthetic performers.
Democratic Governor Kathy Hockel describes it as a first-in-the-nation law aimed at enhancing transparency as AI performers become more common in media. That's that failed to disclose synthetic performers will now face penalties. VISA, the giant payment network that facilitates transactions around the world has struck a partnership with Open AI, the Maker of ChatGPT, it's a step toward AI independently shopping for people as NPR's Alina Selik reports. VISA says it's struck a deal with Open AI to embed its payment network into ChatGPT. This is a major partnership in what is a fast developing industry of AI commerce.
Companies like Google and Amazon have been racing to get shoppers to buy things as part of their conversations with ChatBots and eventually entrusting the ChatBots themselves to complete purchases for the user. VISA says it's deal with Open AI will have VISA overseeing any payments, securing the transactions and monitoring for fraud. It's a massive expansion of AI shopping for VISA and an evolution for Open AI. ChatGPT for a while tested a sort of a digital personal shopping tool called Instant Checkout. But it stumbled with errors and was later phased out, Alina Selik and PR news.
Scientists have discovered marine life thriving on a million-year-old whale graveyard. Researchers used a submersible to explore the remains in the southeast and Indian Ocean and found bones dating back 5.3 million years. The researchers say several factors help preserve the bones including their high density, their location, deep underwater, and a special coating of minerals. This is NPR News. This is our glass. On this American life, when they mean like, it's a good mystery. Sometimes about really big things, but most times, the little mysteries are the best.
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