"Live from MPR News, I'm Dale Wilman.
they were calls for Trump's death during a funeral Thursday for Iran's former Supreme
Leader.
“And social media, Trump said the military would destroy Iran for a year if Iran attempts”
to kill him." Lawmakers in Houston are calling for an independent investigation into the fatal shooting of Mexican immigration by a migrant-by-ice agents from Houston Public Media Kyle McLinigan reports. The shooting took place on Tuesday, in the district of Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia.
She says the acting director of ICE told her officers when after the wrong person. "He confirmed that Los Angeles, together, and Ohio was not the target of the operation. Nor was his brother, who was a passenger in the vehicle." "And I spokesman says officers open fire after the driver attempted to run them over. Attorney Hugo Balderas represents two of the men who were in the van at the time of
the incident.
"They confirmed that at no point was there ever an ICE agent directly in front of the
vehicle. They also confirmed that the shots came from the sides, not from the front, which is inconsistent with the ICE agents statement."
“The local district attorney is also launching his own investigation.”
For NPR News, I'm Kyle McLinigan, in Houston." Graham Platner is formally withdrawn from Maine's U.S. Senate race less than a week after a former romantic partner accused him of rape, Kevin Miller with Maine Public Radio his more. Platner said Wednesday night that he planned to drop out, but the progressive Democrat
waited two days to file the official paperwork. His withdrawal letter doesn't mention the accusations against him, which he has repeatedly denied.
Instead, Platner wrote that his overwhelming primary victory, shows Maine voters support
the ideals at the center of his populist campaign, such as Medicare for All, ending so-called forever wars, and stopping billionaires from buying elections. And he said by withdrawing, he was seeking to quote, "Further than movement we have built." His Democratic Party now has about two weeks to select a new nominee to challenge Republican
Senator Susan Collins this fall. For NPR News, I'm Kevin Miller.
“"Apple is suing the artificial intelligence company, OpenAI, and a top executive alleging”
they stole trade secrets, and P.R.'s John Rooch, as our reports." Apple is accusing two former employees who went to work for OpenAI of stealing confidential information. One of the two people is OpenAI's chief hardware officer who leads the company's efforts to develop consumer AI devices.
The other worked on sensitive product development programs at Apple before moving to OpenAI. The lawsuit accuses them of illegally accessing Apple computers and files, and it alleges that OpenAI has at every level, and in coordination with business partners, been stealing Apple's trade secrets and confidential information. The two companies had partnered together to fold AI into Apple's series, but that fell
through, and Apple is now working with Google to improve the digital assistant, OpenAI did not respond to an NPR request for comment, John Rooch and PR News. "And you're listening to NPR News." The Gordy-How International Bridge between Windsor Canada and Detroit will be opened on July 27th, the opening was delayed after President Trump said the negotiated revenue sharing
was unfair Trump now says there's a better deal in place. Trump and health workers responding to the Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo, say they've not been paid, and are walking off the job in protest. More than 600 people have died so far during the outbreak, that's according to the country's health ministry.
And PR's "Duribuskeran" reports. The hardest hit area in this outbreak is Boonea, in the aturibravance. Onus4Bengenza is the Ebola response team leader for Mercy Corps there. He says the strike is concentrated among government employees, working in disease surveillance, and people who handle bodies for burial, but most are still working, while they negotiate
with Congo's government. If they can't make a deal, Bengenza says the outbreak could spread out of control. He fears more people would lose their lives as a result. The World Health Organization says four out of five new Ebola cases in the DRC have no known link to an existing patient, a sign that the true scale of the outbreak is already
larger than the official numbers suggest, Deribuskeran and Pernus Washington. Cruiser, once again, draining the link of a memorial reflecting pool in Washington, DC. The Trump administration had paid millions of dollars to renovate that pool, but not long after the work was completed. The pool was again filled with an algae, an algae bloom, and a liner in the bottom had
begun to peel. Trump had said the renovations would last for a century. Stocks finished up Friday on Wall Street. I'm Dale Wilman, NPR News. Don't miss our full conversation and the rest of our game.
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