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Levitt will be departing her role at the end of the month. In an online post President
“Trump says it's so she can spend more time with her family. He says she'll now be one of”
his top outside advisors. Levitt is 28 years old and was the youngest White House press secretary in history. Two media organizations are suing President Trump over his subscription service, offering early access to his truth social posts. And PR's Bobby Allen reports the suit
claims the service violates the first amendment and asks a court to block it."
The intercept on the freedom of the press foundation are suing Trump and White House officials alleging that the service known as "truth API" is illegal. For up to $100,000 a month, the offering provides banks and other investors with faster access to Trump's often market-moving social media posts, where the President makes announcements about economic policy, the war, and Iran, and other matters. Trump media officials say so far 10 customers have signed up.
The suit claims the service is quote "extraordinary corrupt and unconstitutional." The suit
“argues selling early access to the President's posts violates the first amendment's guarantee”
of equal public access to the President's statements. Trump's media company said monetizing
social media data is not unusual, adding that the President created the platform as a quote
"uncancelable haven for free speech." Bobby Allen and PR news. Ice is planning to purchase high-tech gloves that deliver electric shocks to people. They're trying to detain immigrant rights advocates are concerned. And PR's Meg Anderson has more on how they work. They shock you. So it looks just like a black glove, but it's got a little button on the wrist. And when that blows blue, it's activated and delivers an electric shock when it touches skin.
It's sort of like a taser except there are no prongs that come out and break the skin. But it is clearly painful. Yeah. The Instagram page for compliant technologies is filled with videos of police officers being subjected to the glove in demonstrations. Most of them grimace or yell and fall to the ground. And PR's Meg Anderson reporting. The Justice Department filed criminal charges today against a hate group researcher who used to work at the Southern
poverty law center as MPR as a Jew, John Feeblock reports this is the latest development in the DOJ's case against the civil rights organization. Heidi Byreck is an expert in white supremacist hate groups and used to direct Southern poverty law centers intelligence project, which used paid informants to track extremist groups. The Justice Department has accused the organization and Byreck of making improper payments of millions of dollars to informants
through fictitious companies. Byreck's attorney Michael Proctor said in a statement that Byreck is innocent. The case is politically motivated and that she was targeted because of quote,
“her important work combating hate groups and extremists. Federal officials said Byreck”
was arrested Wednesday, but her lawyer disputed that and said she voluntarily appeared in court to fight the charges. Jude Jaffeeblock and Pyrenees. Wall Street finished just shy of a record today after several AI stocks reported by the growth. This is NPR. Severe storm struck the Midwest today causing tornadoes heavy rains and flash flooding for responders and utility crews have been working to clear roads and restore power to hundreds of thousands of rate payers nearly 600,000
are without power and Illinois and Indiana or Ohio Kentucky in West Virginia. Researchers have used
the largest and most powerful solar telescope to see the surface of the sun in stunning new
detail. NPR's Ari Daniel has more. The new images reveal world pools of plasma, a boiling brew of hot and magnetized charged particles. Friedrich Vouger is a solar physicist at the National Solar Observatory. It was completely mind-blowing when we first saw this. Vouger and his colleagues noticed that when different layers of plasma move past one another at different speeds, they generate subtle disturbances that grow into large swirling
vortices. This turbulence occurs on the edges of magnetic features on the solar surface which are pretty much everywhere. These vortices may help fuel explosive solar events that influence space weather and can impact satellites and power grids. Ari Daniel and PR news. A football player at Momel High School in Arkansas says he felt unusual movement inside his head gear following warm ups last week. A two foot cotton elf was discovered behind some
padding in his helmet. The pit viper was so reluctant to exit the helmet that animal control officers had to submerge the helmet in water to force it out. It was released in a wooded area. I'm Ryland Barton and you're listening to NPR News from Washington. The working class. It's a term politician to throw around a lot these days but do we know what it actually means? Midterm elections are coming up and on it's been a minute. We
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