"Lie from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi, saying.
A federal judge has slammed President Trump's lawsuit over his leaked tax return saying
“"It was filed in bad faith for an improper purpose."”
The judge also recommended sanctions for attorneys involved in the matter. Here's NPR's Ryan Lucas." In her 56-page order, U.S. district judge Kathleen Williams blasts President Trump's lawsuit against the IRS over his leaked tax returns.
The suit ended with a settlement, which included the creation of a nearly $1.8 billion anti-weaponization
fund, which has since been scrapped. Judge Williams says Trump's lawsuit was brought to manipulate the judicial process and to try to use the court to provide some legitimacy to the eventual settlement and the earmarking of billions of taxpayer dollars to address grievances not defined in the law. The judge referred one of Trump's lawyers for potential disciplinary action, Ryan Lucas NPR News,
Washington.
“"South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster is expected in the coming hours to announce who he selected”
to succeed Senator Lindsey Graham, who died Saturday at the age of 71 likely from a tear in his Aorta according to officials. President Trump says he thinks Graham's sister should temporarily fill the role. Graham is being remembered as a foreign policy hawk and peers here and now spoke with Politico, Politics Bureau, Chief Jonathan Martin about the Republican lawmakers impact."
"He was driven almost singularly by national security and foreign policy, and especially in the final couple of years on two things. Defending Ukraine against the Russian invasion and also pushing President Trump to invade Iran and trying to leverage a deal between the Saudis and the Israelis." Graham died shortly after returning from Ukraine.
“The Trump ally was also seeking reelection to a fifth term.”
A dozen states led by California are suing to stop the merger of Hollywood Giants' paramount and Warner Brothers' discovery. NPR's David Folk and Flick reports the states were either deal with stifle competition between film studios and news outlets. California Attorney General Rob Bonta says a union of paramount and Warner would lead to
higher prices, lower quality and less content for film and television.
The $111 billion deal would bring together the company's movie studios,
streamers' paramount plus and HBO Max, news outlets CBS News and CNN and other household names. Oracle co-founder and Trump ally Larry Ellison is largely bankrolling the bid. The US Justice Department has decided not to fight it, but in a press release, Bonta says California and the other states are fighting for free and fair not rigged markets. He says America has no kings in government or its economy.
David Folk and Flick and PR News. US stocks trading lower this hour now with a NASDAQ down nearly 400 points or one and a half percent. This is NPR News. An immigration enforcement operation in Maine this morning ended in a 26-year-old man's death. Senator Angus King says that according to Homeland Security Secretary Mark Wayne Mullins
account, the man had been ordered to leave the country in that he had weaponized his vehicle when the shooting in the city of Bidford occurred with an hours of the encounter. Hundreds of people began to protest the latest killing at the hands of immigration enforcement agents. As commercial shipping traffic slow to a crawl in the straight-of-form news, global oil prices continue to climb. They're currently hovering around $80 a barrel up more than
six and a half percent. Meanwhile Triple A says the average cost of a gallon of regular gasoline is $3.87. A panel created by European Commission President Ursula Wanderline is looking at ways to protect children from the dangers of social media. Terry Schultz has the tales from Brussels. The group's findings will be presented in Wanderline as expected to use their opinions to form her own legislative proposal by September. The commission chief has expressed her
personal concerns, blaming social media's business models for treating children's attention as a commodity and exploiting addictive design. She's believed to favor an EU-wide ban on
access for youth up to age 16. That model has enforcement problems in Australia, the first country
to try it, but some EU governments are forging ahead anyway, including Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, and Spain. For Imperial News, I'm Terry Schultz in Brussels. I'm Lakshmi Singh, and PR News in Washington.
