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President Trump has threatened a prominent liberal think tank with a $5 million defamation lawsuit
“if it does not retract a report published last month.”
That report found that Trump's national guard deployment to Washington, D.C., has done little to reduce violent crime in the city, and PR's Cat Loan's door for reports. One of President Trump's personal lawyers sent a letter to the Center for American progress demanding a full retraction of the report. The letter, which NPR has read, said that the report was full of "false and malicious
claims." In a statement, Cat President and CEO near a tandem who served as a senior advisor to President Biden outlined the research and analysis behind the report, and called the lawsuit "transparent attempt to silence the organization." She said the report would not be retracted.
A similar study by the nonpartisan think tank-thinist canon center published earlier also found that the national guard presence has had no effect on violent crime in Washington. Cat Loan's door for NPR News, Washington.
“The Supreme Court's allowing the White House to keep building its ballroom for now, today”
the Chief Justice of the United States, John Roberts, signed a temporary order for construction to continue as the High Court considers the Trump administration's emergency appeal, more from NPR's Deepish of Rome. The Trump administration is arguing that the ballroom was needed to create a "integrated military complex" that houses medical care, a drone port, and bomb shelters.
On the other hand, the National Trust for Historic Preservation is saying that the executive branch doesn't have the authority to transform the White House like this, even for national security purposes. NPR's Deepish of Rome, and appeals court has upheld a decision to block the Justice Department subpoenas to New York Attorney General Latisha James' office.
The DOJ seeking records about civil lawsuits james filed against President Trump and his
family business, as well as cases against the powerful gun rights lobbying group The National
Rifle Association.
“President Trump travels to South Carolina today, for a rally in support of Darley and Graham,”
who is running for the Senate seat left vacant when her older brother Lindsey Graham died, and Piers Tamar Keith has more. With a rally in Murdoch Beach, Trump is trying to boost support for Darley and Graham, among his base in the deep red state. After her brother's sudden and unexpected death, Trump encouraged Graham to run for the
Senate and was quick to endorse her, but that endorsement didn't clear the field. She faces Republican congressman Ralph Norman in the runoff. "It's another test of the power of the President's endorsements." Earlier this week, three of the candidates he endorsed lost their primaries. A White House official tells NPR this is just one of many events in the coming months.
Trump will hold for candidates he endorsed, Tamar Keith and PR News the White House. U.S. stocks continue to climb with the Dow Jones industrial average now up more than 560 points or more than 1%. This is NPR News. The number of cyclists for a case is the CDC's link to iceberg lettuce is nearing 11,000,
including two deaths. Yellow farmers pulled lettuce products sourced in central Mexico as an outbreak spread to at least 17 states and territories. However, the recall product had been distributed in many more states. The FDA says they may include California Washington State, the Dakotas, Rhode Island, Vermont,
Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico, where more than half a million residents are currently
facing water rationing because of a historic drought. A British court has ordered Prince Harry, Sir Elton John, and five more celebrities, to pay up to $47 million in damages to a newspaper publisher they sued after losing a high-profile privacy case. The order coincides with news that Harry and his wife Megan are moving back to Britain,
more from NPR's Lauren Freyer. This order comes amid questions about what Harry and Meghan planned to do here professionally to earn money since there's still non-working royals. Harry is one of those who together have been ordered to pay an initial $13 million by next Friday, and may have to further reimburse the Daily Mail's publisher for the rest
of its legal costs, too. The other claimants include singer Elton John and his husband and model actor Liz Hurley. Together they accused the publisher of malpractice, including phone hacking, but a judge ruled against them citing a shortage of evidence and the possibility that information printed about them came from legitimate reporting.
Harry and the other celebrities haven't until early October to appeal. Lauren Freyer and PR News London, this is MPR. This week on the MPR Politics podcast, the Trump administration is taking credit for a major drop in violent crime, murder, robbery, assault, all-down in big cities and small towns. We're going to dig into the numbers and unpack whether this is really as simple as the
President claims it is on the MPR Politics podcast, listen on the MPR app or wherever you
