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White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt is leaving at the end of the month.
“NPR's Deepa Shiver on reports her time ends as Trump is President Trump is facing troubling”
polling numbers ahead of the midterm election. President Trump announced Levitt's departure in a post on social media, saying she was leaving to spend time with her two young children. He called Levitt one of his "most trusted AIDS," and said she would now serve at the top outside adviser, as Republicans gear up for the midterm elections in November.
Levitt first started working for Trump at the end of his first administration.
She also ran for Congress in her home state of New Hampshire, but was unsuccessful, and she later worked for Trump's super PAC before coming on to his 2024 campaign. Who her replacement will be is not yet clear, while Levitt was on parental leave several cabinet officials briefed the press. Deepa Shiver on, and PR News the White House.
The pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly is stunning a new obesity drug, and it's not yet approved by the FDA, but that hasn't stomped people from selling unapproved versions, and now the drug company is suing, and PR's Sydney Lubkin has more.
“Eli Lilly says it is filed six lawsuits against businesses, telling what it calls "black”
market-ready" true-tied. They include a medical spa chain in California and a compounding pharmacy in Texas. The drug company is also suing companies that sell so-called "research-only peptides" online. But a true-tied is currently in phase three clinical trials.
Because it targets three hormones, GLP-1, GIP, and Glucogon, it's more powerful than GLP-1's
already on the market. However, since Retro-tied isn't FDA approved, compounding it, repackaging it, or selling its active ingredient to compounders is illegal, the FDA says. Unapproved products may be contaminated, contain too much or too little of the active ingredient, or be counterfeit products that contain none at all.
Sydney Lubkin and PR news. Officials in Texas say two people are dead following a military helicopter crash in central Texas, this afternoon from Member Station KUT in Austin, Gabriel Velasquez-Neda reports.
“The Bell County Sheriff's Office says the Apache attack helicopter crashed around 130 pm”
local time and started a fire which has since been contained. The crew members were later pronounced that at 230 pm, according to the Sheriff's Office. Their craft was based in Fort Hood. It's unclear what led to the crash. Military responders, local fire, and police departments, and the Texas Department of Public
Safety, all responded to the incident. Fort Hood's Criminal Investigations Division and the Bell County Sheriff's Office are now investigating. For MPR News, I'm Gabriel Velasquez-Neda in Austin.
The search for survivors in the rubble of Colombia's powerful earthquake is growing more
desperate, where the 250 people have died, Colombia's new president is trying to ensure aid makes it to the vulnerable communities most affected by Monday's Quake, and more than 100 aftershocks. They're listening to NPR News from Washington. A former Southern Poverty Law Center official has been charged in the Department of Justice's
broader criminal case against the Alabama-based civil rights group. Heidi Byrick is a political extremism expert who served as the Law Center's chief financial officer that a Department of Justice claims the nonprofit improperly raised millions of dollars to secretly pay leaders of the Ku Klux Klan and other hate groups for inside information. At least 44 people died after a ferry sunk on Symbabwe's Lake Carita, a official say,
Kate Bartlett reports dozens more people were rescued and many more are missing. Symbabwe and President Emerson Munningagua declared a state of emergency in the Southern African country on Wednesday after the scale of the tragedy became apparent. The accident happened on Tuesday when the overcrowded ferry was hit by a wave and overturned so far 77 people have been rescued.
It had been carrying people across one of the world's largest man-made reservoirs. The Carita Dam built on the Symbabwe's river on the border with Zambia, first opened in 1960. The boat was carrying more passengers than it had capacity for according to officials. Kate Bartlett, NPR News, Johannesburg.
A Kansas town has agreed to pay $850,000 to a former reporter at the Marion County record to end her lawsuit over a police raid of the paper's offices in 2023. Marion's police chief said he was investigating whether the paper had committed identity theft in accessing a restaurant owner's driving record. The reporter Philis Zorn said the raids were retaliation for hard-hitting local coverage.
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