Live from NPR news in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton.
The Supreme Court's Chief Justice is allowing President Trump to continue construction
of his at least $300 million White House ballroom project for now.
Trump celebrated the temporary ruling during a rally in South Carolina. I just want to thank the Supreme Court and the Chief Justice and we have a ruling that
“it's perceived when they say precede, I think that's a good thing.”
Lower courts had ordered a halt to the project saying, and must have congressional approval as NPR's Tamar Keith reports. Trump now calls this a military installation as well as a ballroom. The existence of the bunker and the need to replace it because it had been destroyed as part of this process came out in some of the earlier legal filings.
But since then, the president has really been piling it on about how this is such a national security issue, not just the underground bunker, but then also saying it's going to be a drone port. It's a military installation. This isn't just a ballroom.
This is national security. NPR's Tamar Keith reporting.
This social media platform TikTok and it's affiliates will pay $400 million to settle
litigation brought by the Department of Justice in 2024.
“NPR's John Ruach reports the company was accused of violating a federal law to protect”
children's privacy online. The Department of Justice had alleged that TikTok collected, stored and processed vast amounts of data from its users, including millions of American children under 13 in violation of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. The Department of Justice says since the complaint was filed, TikTok has undergone significant
changes to aspects of its business, including ownership and management. The Trump administration broke her to deal for a U.S. version of TikTok to be spun off from its Chinese owner by dance earlier this year and put in the hands of American investors. The Department of Justice says TikTok has since implemented extensive measures to strengthen safeguards for young users, John Ruach and PR news.
A military source tells the NPR the Navy is considering renaming an aircraft carrier under construction for President Trump and Pierce Quilorn's reports it was supposed to be named for Black World War II Hero Doris Miller. In 1941, Doris or Dory Miller was working in the mess hall of a ship under attack in Pearl Harbor.
“He dragged the wounded to safety and then down two Japanese planes with an anti-aircraft gun”
he'd never been trained to fire.
He died at war two years later. Dory Miller died in a line of duty at age 24. He's the first black man to receive the Navy Cross. Kyle Bibi with the Black Veterans Project is outraged by reports that the aircraft carrier might be named for President Trump instead of Miller.
The Navy should be focusing on supporting current sailors serving and fighting in this war rather than finding ways to honor the politicians who actually started this war. A spokesman told NPR the Navy has no announcement at this time. Quilorn and 10 PR news. This is NPR News.
Harbor University Medical School has agreed to pay $53 million to settle a lawsuit over its former morgue managers illegal sale of human remains. Sedric Lodge was sentenced to eight years in prison last year for selling body parts. As wife and six others were also sentenced, Harbor says Lodge acted without their knowledge. Flock cameras, the automated license plate readers police use to track vehicles are facing
growing resistance as NPR's Meg Anderson reports some people are vandalizing them. Flock cameras capture billions of license plates every month. Police leaders say that has helped them find stolen vehicles and missing people. But legal experts say the technology raises privacy concerns. Now, some people are taking matters into their own hands.
According to an NPR review, Flock cameras have been vandalized or stolen in at least 36 states. Garrett Langley is the CEO of Flock. These are people being amped up to go do something and I don't think that they're being given the level of information they should that they're also committing a felony. Langley says if people have concerns, they should take it up with their city council.
And many people have, according to the advocacy group, deflock at least 100 cities have deactivated the cameras or canceled their contracts. Meg Anderson and Pair News. Nigeria's president has ordered investigation into a man accused of creating a fake government agency.
The National Brands Development and Made in Nigeria Special Project office was operating illegally. This is the second fake agency uncovered recently. This is NPR News. For the first time, a US government debt has surpassed $40 trillion, a massive number that affects your bottom line.
This week on Consider This, we connect the dots between the National debt and your car payment, your mortgage, your small business loan, and so much more. Listen to Consider This, the daily afternoon news podcast from NPR.
