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Ice officers may soon be outfitted with gloves that deliver electric shocks to people deemed
“aggressive from member station W.E.K.U. Shepherd Snyder reports.”
Ice plans to spend up to $20 million on generated low output voltage emitters were gloves
for short. That's according to an online notice published by the Department of Homeland Security. The technology is manufactured by complaint technologies LLC based in Lexington, Kentucky. According to an online manual, the gloves are applied directly to the skin in order to deliver shocks.
They're already used by some jails and police departments. The ACLU and other civil rights groups have spoken out against the technology. Ice has been heavily criticized for its use of force, including multiple fatal shootings emit a federal immigration crackdown. For NPR News, I'm Shepherd Snyder in Lexington, Kentucky.
The Treasury Department says it refunded another $30 billion worth of tariffs last month. This after the Supreme Court ruled against the Trump administration and how they were collecting the duties. NPR's Emily Fang reports.
“Tariffs are a key part of President Trump's economic toolkit.”
But by the end of last month, the US had refunded a good chunk of them.
After $15 billion, out of the approximately $166 billion in tariffs, wrongfully collected
under an interpretation of trade law, the Supreme Court struck down this February. The Trump administration then rolled out a new round of tariffs on about 60 countries last month, which it alleged were exporting some goods made with forced labor. But earlier this month, the coalition of 25 US states sued the administration over those new tariffs, arguing they are an attempt to simply replace the customs duties already struck
down. Emily Fang and Pure News, Washington White House press secretary Caroline Levitt is leaving at the end of the month. NPR's deepest shiver arm reports her time and, as Trump is facing troubling poll numbers, ahead of the midterms.
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 as a top outside advisor 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. Deepish Ivaram and PR News, the White House.
Ted Decker, the CEO of Home Depot, is taking a temporary medical leave to deal with an undisclosed medical issue, several officials will oversee the day-to-day operations of the chain, which has 2,300 stores in North America. It's NPR. Millions of people in Europe stepped outside to watch this evening a spectacular sunset with
a solar eclipse in the path of totality as it passed through parts of Greenland, Iceland and Spain, Alexis Marshall reports. In a tiny Galician town, hundreds of locals and visitors filled the streets to view this rare astronomical event. Bill Courtney of Michigan traveled all the way here with his college buddies to be in the path
of totality. This is his fourth total solar eclipse. It's a very special bit of geometry that allows for that spectacle to take place. This was the Spanish mainland's first total solar eclipse in more than a century, but another one is coming next year.
For NPR News, I'm Alexis Marshall in O'Cathable Spain. Nick Riner, the son of actor director Rob Riner and his wife Michelle Singer Riner, has been indicted by El Los Angeles County Grand jury for the murderer of his parents last December the 14th. The indictment was return last month and officially unsealed Wednesday.
It alleges that Riner was laying in weight when the couple were stabbed to death in their Brentwood, California home. The Grand jury indictment is considered a major step forward towards trial and it allows prosecutors to skip California's preliminary hearing process where evidence is publicly aired.
Because prosecutors say Riner was lying in weight for his parents, he could be eligible for the death penalty, but no word from prosecutors if they will seek that. This is NPR. Support for NPR. Attention.
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