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A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction blocking the Trump administration's
“nearly $2 billion anti-weaponization fund.”
The judge said the move was necessary, as NPR's Ryan Lucas reports." At a court hearing on a lawsuit challenging the fund, U.S. District Judge Lee and he brink him a said the public statements from DOJ officials that the Department was abandoning the fund were not sufficient. She noted the President Trump continues to publicly support the fund, and that the
government has refused to formally declare under oath that the fund is indeed dead. Judge Brinkham had therefore issued a preliminary injunction blocking the fund, but she gave the Justice Department one week to provide a clear, unambiguous declaration under penalty of perjury signed by the acting attorney general and the U.S. Treasury Secretary that the fund will not move ahead.
If it does so, the judge said she will likely dismiss the lawsuit.
If the government does not do so, then the case will move forward.
Ryan Lucas and PR news Alexandria, Virginia. A federal judge has refused to stop the White House from staging a UFC mixed martial arts event on the south lawn of the White House this weekend.
“The White House calls the lawsuit baseless saying it's no different from many other events”
hosted at public forums in the Capitol, and PR's Danielle Kurtsleben has more. A watchdog group has filed a lawsuit attempting to halt the fight, noting the money that UFC stands to make off the event, and that Trump owns up to $50,000 of stock in the company that owns UFC. The DOJ has responded, saying in part it would be too disruptive to halt an event a year
in the making, and noting past presidents White House events. White House spokesperson Davis Engel insisted to NPR. There are no conflicts of interest, and added that Trump's assets are in a trust managed by his children. NPR's Danielle Kurtsleben reporting, in Ohio, a group that organizes political activities
for Democratic causes was raided by the FBI today from Ohio Public Radio Joe Engel's reports. Ohio organizing collaborative board member, Prinnis Haney, says FBI agents have searched premises and in some cases taken laptops and electronic devices as well as interviewed people who work with the organization.
There's no reason for over 100 agents to be knocking on the doors of everyday Ohioans, demanding and accusing people of voter fry as if it was a glitch time, and scaring them with their children following them in their cars, the school and to work. I mean, this was a full-out assault. I mean, they haven't seen anything like this in Sama.
Haney says the people who were contacted by the FBI were told it was related to a case of voter fraud. The FBI has been contacted for comment. For NPR news, I'm Joe Engel from Columbus, Ohio. The federal appeals court has upheld the conviction of crypto currency entrepreneur, Sam
Bankman Freed, rejecting arguments that his trial was unfair, just as expressed skepticism
“that he was not allowed to present key evidence during his 2023 trial.”
This is NPR news. Thousands of Puerto Ricans are struggling with water shortages, so severe that the governor has activated the national guard. Officials have not publicly pinpointed the cause. The shortages are largely affecting some of the islands most populated cities, including San
Juan residents are being forced to buy potable water. Heat can be dangerous for pregnant women, a new study looks at how certain proteins inside a pregnant body respond to heat, and how that can affect both mother and fetus, and Piers Alejandra Barrunda reports. One way body's deal with heat stress is to ramp up the production of molecules called
heat shock proteins. Fundamentally, their job is to protect the cell. That's Carrie Bretton. She's an environmental epidemiologist at Washington University in St. Louis. She says that's extra important during pregnancy when feeling too much heat can affect both
mother and fetus. The new study in environmental science and technology shows that heat exposure ramped up the amount of protective heat shock proteins in most pregnant women's blood, but some women who developed lots of the proteins ended up having their babies early. It's a hint about why some pregnant people might be more sensitive to heat than others.
Alejandra Barrunda and Piers News Patagonia the clothing brand is suing patty gonia the drag queen for one dollar. The central question is whether patty gonia who filed for a trademark last year can sell merchandise using her name without causing confusion for consumers. Patagonia, the company, is named after the region in southern Chile and Argentina.
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