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the plan to launch an anti-weaponization fund to compensate people. The Trump administration
“says were hurt by the Biden Justice Department is now dead. NPR's Kerry Johnson reports”
the idea prompted by partisan outrage on Capitol Hill."
Todd Blanche says there's no infrastructure for the nearly $1.8 billion fund, no commissioners
and no transfer of money from the Treasury. President Trump touted the fund as a way to help his supporters who faced charges, including for storming the U.S. Capitol on January 6th. Blanche addressed the question with reporters at the DOJ. "He feels very strongly that he would want to make them whole as do I, but it will not be through the anti-weaponization fund."
January 6th defendants and other Trump allies already have filed separate legal claims with the Joe's disdepartment, seeking money for the ways they say the DOJ harm them. Larry Johnson and PR news Washington. The leader of the World Health Organization says new U.S. guidelines reducing the number of childhood vaccinations and spacing out others are not backed by science and could leave
kids vulnerable to preventable diseases, and PR's a dirty-boose care and reports.
“During a press conference in Geneva, WHO director General, Dr. Tedros Adonon Gibriaises,”
says the evidence is unequivocal. Vaccines are safe. Delaying vaccines or separating doses are necessarily does not make vaccination safer and can leave children unprotected. He says changes to immunization schedules should be backed by science, not political influence. The Trump administration released the new vaccine recommendations Monday in an executive
order, saying the policy is intended to support, quote, "maximal parental choice" over childhood vaccines. This forecast is a good news bad news situation, the storm could bring lightning and high winds to fan more fires, but possible rain and those winds could help blow out dense smoke that's been trapped in valleys here for weeks.
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“In Idaho, KC Mooney is taking her dog for a morning hike in the foothills above downtown”
Boise, a recent wildfire here was a close call for the city, but ended up just blackening the sagebrush and grasses in the popular trail system. It's been hit and miss better worse, better worse, so we get it out as early as we can and get home and get inside. In the AC, before it hits 100 degrees again, Kirk Sigler and Pierre News, Boise.
U.S. inflation slowed last month, suggesting higher oil and gas prices from the Iran War are only having a limited impact on the broader economy. It's NPR. The U.S. military is on track to pull all its forces out of Iraq by the end of September marking the end of a presence that started in 2003, Washington and Baghdad agreed in
2024 to wind down operations against the Islamic State Group. U.S. troops pulled out of most areas last year, but maintained a presence in the northern Kurdish region.
The LA Lakers are being sold for a second time in a year, for $12 1/2 billion in
Piersnot confirmed that amount, but Steve Futterman reports that would be the most ever paid for a sports team. They are considered one of the crown jewels of the NBA. The LA Lakers have won 17 championships featuring some of the game's all-time grates, including Kobe Bryant, Karim Abdul-Jibbar, and LeBron James.
Now for the second time in a year, the team is being sold. The new owner is subject to approval, will be Josh Kushner, the brother of President Trump's Senna Law Jared Kushner, and Bob Eiger, the former CEO of the Walt Disney Company. Last year, majority stake in the Lakers was sold to Mark Walter. He also leads the group that owns the LA Dodgers.
Walter is currently the subject of a federal probe into whether he and properly disclosed loans to other companies.
A spokesman for Walter says he's always acted in good faith.
For MPR News, I'm Steve Futterman, in Los Angeles. More than 200 gold statuettes of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his dog have disappeared from Salzburg, Austria. The Mozartian Foundation unveiled 320 statuettes to honor Mozart's 270th birthday within two weeks over 80 vanished, and by today 210, we're missing. This is NPR News.
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