Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.
President Trump says his administration is investing millions of dollars in mining, including mining education. He says the investments are a move to ensure the U.S. doesn't have to rely on foreign countries for resources. And if your stupid Chevron has more.
Trump and members of his cabinet gathered with mining executives at the State Department and unveiled nearly $200 million in mining training and education. Everything from advanced weaponry to automobiles.
“And we want these essential products to be mind-refined and made right here in the USA with”
the American skill and American hands. There's been a more acute focus on mining since the A.I. race with China has intensified as
many metals and rare earth materials are needed to produce critical technology.
Officials say the U.S. graduates fewer than 200 mining engineers each year compared to China graduating more than 3000. Deepishivarom and PR News. Legal aid groups that have represented migrant children for months without pay could soon be getting a check from the Trump administration.
Remember station KQED, "Tiky Hendrix" has more. In December, the government stopped paying the non-profits for representing on a company kids in immigration court. This week, a federal judge in Oakland ordered the government to pay about $65 million. The checks are due to arrive Monday.
“"It's incredibly important to have this money."”
Alvaro Werta with immigrant defenders law center in Los Angeles represents the groups. "Because we do feel an ethical obligation and moral obligation to ensure that children have someone standing beside them in court." The future is unclear for the nation's more than 20,000 unaccompanied kids because the legal aid contract expired last month.
For MPR News, I'm Tiky Hendrix in San Francisco.
The judge in New Mexico is ordering Meta to pay more than $516 million dollars into a fund
to help address harms from the company's social media platforms. This is in addition to 775 million Meta was ordered to pay previously for having violated the state's unfair practices act earlier this year, and here's John Ruitt reports. New Mexico is one of dozens of states suing Meta over child safety and a jury in March found that the company had violated the state's consumer protection laws.
In a fresh order, the judge ordered Meta to put $567 million dollars into a so-called
“abatement fund, the fund will be used to abate the public nuisance that Meta created with”
its social media platforms, which include Facebook and Instagram. The order said the court decided such a fund was necessary due to the wide-ranging impacts of the harm and the complex nature of the remedy. But it says it disagrees with the ruling and will appeal, later this month another landmark trial against Meta by a group of states gets underway in California, John Ruitt and PR
news. This is NPR News President Trump says he'll appeal a federal court's decision halting construction of the White House ballroom, a three-judged panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that Trump can't build a $400 million ballroom without congressional approval.
The appeal of court did, however, allow below ground work to continue, throughling a state for 14 days to allow the Trump administration to appeal the case to the Supreme Court. A study on Pumas in Washington state shows the large cats, also called Cougars and Mountain Lions, make may make roadways safer for drivers, and PR's early McCoy has more. Researchers combined data from more than 500 wildlife cameras around the Olympic
Peninsula. They also looked at the number of vehicle wildlife collisions and found were Pumas were most active. There were 76% fewer vehicle collisions with deer compared to areas with the least amount of Pum activity.
Justin Saratchi at Conservation Science Partners says the Pumas are likely changing deer behavior. They're actually spending less of their time near roads. Which he thinks is so deer can avoid the open space that roads provide, which are ideal hunting grounds for ambush predators like Pumas.
Rajee says these results could add to conversations around allowing Pumas to naturally recolonize areas where they're currently popping up in the Midwest, or even reintroduction. The results appear in the journal Current Biology, Burley McCoy and PR News. Well, straight higher by the closing bell, the Dow of 151 points the Nasdaq up 342. On Janine Herbst and PR News in Washington.
This week on Consider This, Virginia thought her criminal record would follow her forever until a few minutes with an AI app that told her she could clear her felonies.
You'll never find a harder worker than someone who has something to prove to themselves
how AI could help millions of Americans with criminal records find work.
