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The Trump administration wants to deregulate Head Start, the landmark early education program
“for low-income children and their families.”
NPR's Johan Andez reports critics warn the change, could lead to a declining quality among Head Start providers across the country. The proposal announced by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would leave it up to states, rather than the federal government to regulate things like student teacher ratios in background checks.
It would also lower the amount Head Start providers can spend on administrative costs.
Officials estimate that would save over $2 billion, which the administration has vowed
to reinvest in the program to create more slots for kids. Head Start currently serves more than 700,000 children nationwide with child care, preschool, and more. Some supporters of the program say reducing federal oversight could lead to variations in quality from one state to the next.
The proposal's rule changes will be open for public comment for 60 days. Johan Andez NPR News The non-partisan congressional budget office finds a President Trump's plan for the U.S.
“Navy to build new, nuclear-powered battleships will take longer and cost a lot more than”
initially estimated. Here's NPR's Cat Loan Store. Trump announced the plan for the Navy to build its largest battleships since World War two back in December, saying they would be "the fastest, the biggest, and by far, 100 times more powerful than any battleship ever built."
They've been dubbed "Trump class battleships."
The first was initially said to cost around $15 billion, but the estimate by the CBO found
it will likely cost more than $23 billion. 14 additional ships are also estimated at substantially more than originally thought, with a total price tag of $275 billion for the whole fleet. U.S. shipyards also may not have the capacity to build such ships the report found, saying the first might take eight years or longer to build.
Trump had originally said, at least two would be finished by the end of his term. Cat Loan Store, MPAR News, Washington. Senate Democrats are introducing a bill to block the Pentagon from resetting the U.S. military's casualty count in the war the U.S. and Israel initiated against Iran in late February. Siding technical reasons, a Pentagon had changed how it records military deaths and injuries.
Some of the casualty figures attributed to the Iran War have been reclassified to overseas operations. Democratic Senator Tammy Duckworth of Illinois is a veteran of the Iraq War, who sustained serious combat wounds, including the loss of both of her legs. She tells ABC News how the country records a service member's death or injury has economic
repercussions for military household. "There is different statuses for how our service members are treated for their wounds and compensated if they are wounded or killed in a combat operation as opposed to a non-combat injury or death." Since the U.S. Iran War began more than 680 troops have been wounded and at least 18 have
been killed. This is NPR News. Online prediction market Calshy can no longer do business in the state of Utah earlier this week, a federal judge ruled that the company is not immune to the state's ban on gambling.
Sean Higgins with member-station KUER reports. Gambling and other games of chance are explicitly banned in the Utah Constitution, driven largely by the beliefs of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which is headquartered in the state. Earlier this year, state lawmakers added proposition bets, like the ones made on Calshy
and other similar websites to the state's definition of gambling. Calshy sued Utah in February over the law. It argued that state couldn't treat its sports futures contracts as bets because it operates as a federally registered exchange. The court disagreed.
Utah Attorney General Derek Brown celebrated the outcome saying clever branding can't beat state law. Calshy says it plans to appeal. For NPR News, I'm Sean Higgins in Salt Lake City. Federal and state public health officials are investigating a salmonella outbreak from contaminated
jalapeno peppers. 345 people got sick. 36 were hospitalized after eating contaminated jalapenos grown in Sinaloa, Mexico, and distributed by coast citrus. The peppers have been recalled.
The CDC is also tracking a cyclist for outbreak in 15 states linked to iceberg lettuce sourced in central Mexico and distributed by Taylor Farms. The outbreak sent more than 270 people to the hospital, two people died and in New York City today, patients and families of 92 people got sick or died during last summer's deadly Legionnaires outbreak in Harlem have filed suit.
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