"Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor-Johnston.
The Pentagon is facing growing calls for an investigation into conditions aboard the USS
Abraham Lincoln after reports of supply shortages, broken plumbing, and mental health concerns. The carrier has been at sea for eight months without a port call. Democratic Senator Rubin Gaego, who served in the Marines, is calling for a bipartisan oversight visit to the ship." The fact that the military, especially Peacock Seat, are just denying this is just
ridiculous. We are able to talk to a lot of these sailors, so we are able to talk to their spouses.
“And this is why I think it's important they allow us by a bipartisan member of a bipartisan”
group of members of the House and the Senate to go and visit these sailors, so that it has happened before, to make sure that we know that they're doing well and that the Secretary
of Defense is not lying to us.
President Secretary Pete Heggsett says the situation on board the ship has been completely misrepresented. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the number of cases of cyclists barriacists across the U.S. has reached nearly 14,000, and PR's Yucanaguchi reports the CDC is working to confirm an additional 10,000 infections that have been linked to iceberg
lettuce grown in Mexico. This year's cyclists barriacists outbreak bus past prior records, Susan Maine says that's in part because of the Trump administration's staff cuts across health agencies last year. Maine headed the food and drug administration's food safety division until three years ago.
“I think that that has really pushed us into a new level of vulnerability in terms of our”
food safety system. He says key FDA staff coordinating international outbreak response were cut, though the FDA says it continues to work with foreign partners. Federal funding and staff working on cyclists for research at the CDC were also cut. Yucanaguchi and PR news Britain's right-wing anti-immigration leader Nigel Farage is returning
to Parliament after winning one of the strangest elections in recent British history. His opponent campaigned with a giant trash can on his head. His MPR's Fatman Alka Sub reports. Farage received more than 63% of the vote in the special bi-election, which he triggered after coming under scrutiny over his campaign finances, and which all of Britain's mainstream
parties decided to boycott, Farage's closest rival, Joe Candidate, Count Bimface, who has run in multiple elections, got more than a quarter of the vote. Farage didn't attend the count, earlier saying he didn't want to be demeaned and humiliated bi-nobodies. Count Bimface for his part said he was gratified after what was his best electoral performance
yet. Fatman Alka Sub MPR News London. This is NPR News in Washington. Federal judge has dismissed a Trump administration lawsuit against Harvard University, and NPR's Genaki Meta reports the suit accused the school of not doing enough to protect students
from anti-Semitism on campus. The lawsuit filed back in March claimed that after the war in Gaza began, Harvard had turned, quote, "A blind eye to anti-Semitism and discrimination against Jews and Israelis." Now Judge Richard Stearns of the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts has dismissed the lawsuit.
Saying its claims of anti-Semitism were, quote, "two isolated," and, quote, "devoit of any factual allegations," unquote, "to prove that Harvard was out of compliance with civil rights laws." While this is a win for Harvard, which has been in a years-long battle with the Trump administration, Hermit Dylan, the assistant attorney general for civil rights at the U.S. Department
of Justice, told NPR, quote, "we disagree with the ruling and are assessing next steps," unquote, adding that the Justice Department is actively investigating anti-Semitism nationwide. Genaki Meta and Peehr News. In an NPR exclusive report, federal regulators have launched a review of mentioned markets, where people wager millions of dollars on words public figures use, that's according to
two people with direct knowledge of the probe. Calshy, the country's largest prediction market, has removed the bets from sporting events and mid-the inquiry, but still offers them for political events.
Sports account for more than 80 percent of the billions of dollars traded on Calshy each
week, so removing those markets could have a significant impact. I'm Windsor Johnston, NPR News, in Washington. This week on Consider This, stories about the Trump administration, here how a former Olympian was targeted by the Justice Department over damage to the reflecting pool, plus inside Trump's
“secret decoy flight out of Turkey that left press and cabinet officials on Air Force”
one without him.
