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Trump and his family raked in more than a billion dollars from cryptocurrency ventures
in the past year, associated press reporter Bernard Condon says the speed that Trump made the money is surprising. His property business, at least according to my judgment, is growing. At the fastest, it has in the centuries since the Trump organization, his family business started.
And yet, crypto triumphs. Trump also took intensive millions from new properties and countries beholden to the U.S. for military support or seeking terror for leave, and he got tens of millions more suing media companies. The White House says the president has no financial conflicts and only acts in the public
interest with the latest Supreme Court session now over President Trump at his administration
“have a lot of wins and some high-profile losses as NPR's Tamar key reports Trump is”
celebrating an expansion of presidential power. The Supreme Court upheld birthright citizenship and earlier in the term blocked the president's sweeping tariffs, but it also delivered wins for him and his party, allowing Trump to strictly limit even legal immigration and making it easier for red states to redraw congressional district lines in favor of Republicans.
In a social media post assessing the court's term, Trump crowed that the decision clearing the way for Trump to fire commissioners at federal agencies, quote, "give tremendous additional power back to the presidency," where it belongs. He adds the Republican party was treated very fairly by the United States Supreme Court. Tamar key and PR news, the White House.
This is the Justice Department is going after state gun laws that it calls unconstitutional in PR's Jacqueline Diaz reports on two lawsuits that challenge gun bands in California and Virginia. In California, a newly enacted law banned dealers from selling certain glock and glock-style pistols.
In Virginia, state lawmakers recently banned the purchase and sale of semi-automatic rifles. In these two lawsuits, the Justice Department sites recent decisions from the Supreme Court that struck down restrictions on gun owners, including one decision from just a few days ago.
The suits, also say, both states laws violate the Second Amendment.
The DOJ is asking two federal judges to put a stop to these bands. Jacqueline Diaz and PR News. Former CIA director John Brennan is suing the Trump administration demanding a court order to accord to order officials to preserve records from investigations that are targeting him.
“Brennan says the records would be essential for him to mount a defense on vindictive prosecution”
grounds in the event of a future indictment brought by the administration. No charges have been brought, and the Department of Justice has denied claims of weaponization. Most US stocks rose today, but drops for some influential technology companies kept the market in check. This is NPR.
Lines are growing at Russian gas stations at several months of Ukrainian attacks have sent oil refineries of blaze, and choked supplies. Fuel rationing has been introduced in many regions. The fuel crisis is brought in Moscow's invasion of Ukraine home to ordinary Russians. President Putin acknowledged the problems for motorists and businesses.
A fast spreading fire in Colorado has burned around 155 structures and prompted evacuations. The fire is currently burning 35,000 acres with 0% containment from member station KRCC, Brianna Heney has more. Officials say that aspirin acres fire ballooned from a few hundred to more than 20,000 acres over the course of 12 hours.
“It began burning Monday morning and has led authorities to declare mandatory evacuations”
for multiple towns and areas. Ned Pitman is a resident of the town of Bula, which is under evacuation order. He says he left his home unaware of the fire and was not allowed to return. He believes his home has burned. I cried a bunch yesterday when I just initially seen it, and I'm in shock now, it's devastating
health and safety for hours. The fire is the largest of six major fires in the state. For NPR News, I'm Brianna Heney in Colorado Springs. Marshall Arts icon, and San Francisco native Bruce Lee will become the first Chinese American in California history with an annual namesake day.
Democratic Governor Gavin Newsam signed a law officially designating May 17th as Bruce Lee Day, the day in 1959 that an 18 year old Lee returned at San Francisco after spending his childhood in Hong Kong. It's NPR.
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