Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton.
The Supreme Court has paused an appeals court order on President Trump's more than $300
“million ballroom project, meaning construction can carry on for now, and PR's Emily”
Fang reports. The Supreme Court put a stay on a lower court's order to halt construction, but the higher court did not give an explanation for its decision. Two lower courts already ruled that the ballroom project is likely illegal because Congress never approved it.
But this Supreme Court order means the administration can continue with the 90,000 square for the addition to the White House. The Trump administration has argued the ballroom is not just an aesthetic necessity, but a national security issue as well. And material supplied to the Supreme Court, D. John Sauer, the solicitor general and a former
personal lawyer for Trump, is that the future ballroom would include a sniper's nest, drone proof, roofs, and a hospital. Emily Fang and PR News, Washington Another deadline is looming tonight for the U.S. In Canada, finalize a trade deal in order to avoid an additional 50% tariff on Canadian goods.
“President Trump initially set a deadline of midnight Wednesday, earlier this week, but delayed”
it, saying there had been progress in negotiations. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has been urging provincial leaders to allow the sale of U.S. liquor, which have been banned since Trump's tariffs began last year. Manitoba's premiere is urging Canada to keep fighting rather than make concessions.
That's West Indiana is in its second week of power outages due to storms that hit the
state on August 11th, Barb and Giano reports, city and state officials are calling for more transparency from electricity provider northern Indiana public service company, or nipsco. Nipsco says nearly 375,000 to customers lost power in what they called the worst outage in the company's history, and estimates the power is still out for nearly 68,000 to customers.
Larry Indiana was one of the hardest hit areas, Nipsco says they expect power will be back there Tuesday. Gary Mayer Eddie Milton says it's been a frustrating situation. "I have to demand that Nipsco provide more accurate restoration times, specifically for
“Gary, because the information that was shared was omitting, like Gary."”
Indiana Governor Mike Braun in a social media post Thursday praised crews working around the clock to restore power, and also urged Nipsco to take the situation seriously. For NPR News, I'm Barbangiano in inapolis. "The other in chief of military news outlets, Stars and Stripes, says the Pentagon has fired him, as well as its publisher and a reporter, Eric Slave, and cited an interview
he gave in which he objected to any potential censorship by the U.S. military. Stars and Stripes is partly funded by the Pentagon, but has a long legacy of editorial independence, recently it reported on challenging conditions aboard the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln Aircraft Carrier. Major U.S. Stock Index is rose today, this is NPR News."
The number of people receiving snap food aid has fallen more than 13% in a year as work requirements and other provisions of President Trump's big tax cut and spending bill from last year take hold. The loss of help is making it hard for some families to figure out what to do. More people are required to work to receive the aid now and that to change has come
with more reporting requirements. Several states looking for new ways to crack down on homelessness have passed laws that make it a crime to camp on public property. NPR's Marissa J. Lang reports Tennessee has some of the harshest penalties in the country. "Three people in Tennessee this summer have been charged with felonies for camping on public
property, two in Nashville Park and recently a chat nougum man who was found sleeping in his car. Under state law he could face up to six years in prison. Lindsey Krinks of housing for all Tennessee says, "These increasing arrests don't actually help solve homelessness."
"These kind of laws are just punishing people for their poverty, they're prolonging homelessness and they're doing nothing to solve our housing crisis." Those who support camping bands say they give states and local law enforcement more power to forceably move hard to reach people off the street. Marissa J. Lang and PR News.
Next week is Fat Marmett Week, last winter was tough for the ground hog like rodents in the Colorado mountains, but the marmets that survived doing well, they've fattened
up gaining the critical weight they need to make it through next winter to drum up interest
in their work. Marmett researchers are launching a contest for the public to vote for their favorite critter. Fat Marmett Week begins on Monday. I'm Rylan Barton, and you're listening to NPR News from Washington.
This week on the NPR 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 NPR Politics podcast.
