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President Trump says he is grateful for a Supreme Court order issued yesterday.
“The temporarily allows his massive White House Ballroom Project to continue.”
The administration says the ballroom is needed for national security, and Piers Emily Fang reports. "On his social media site true social Trump claimed without details that the military wanted such changes for the last 100 years. A non-profit charted by Congress to protect American historic buildings has sued to stop
the ballroom for which the historic east wing of the White House was torn down last year. The lawsuit argues that Trump, by himself, does not have the authority to make such big, structural changes. And two courts ruled the ballroom was likely illegal because Congress did not give it a approval.
But the short Supreme Court order issued Friday afternoon allows the ballroom to continue to be built for now. Trump said construction was "a head of schedule," Emily Fang and Piers News Washington.
“A mid-growing American concerns about the cost of living.”
President Trump says he will temporarily waive a tariff on imported beef.
The move will allow imported beef to be sold at 25 percent below market prices.
American cattle rancher say this will hurt their bottom line. Ethan Lane is the head lobbyist for the National Cataman's Beef Association. So we have a lot of frustrated producers today, a lot of folks that feel like this isn't what they voted for, you know, they voted for a president they thought was going to be giving them limited government, right, and free markets.
The waiver will be in effect for 90 days. Resistance is growing to so-called "flock cameras," those automated license plate readers that police use to track vehicles. And Piers Meg Anderson reports some people are even vandalizing those cameras. Block 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." Some people being amped up to go do something, and I don't think that they're being
given the level of information they should, but 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 Piers News.
Iran's president claims the world has accepted that Iran has won its conflict with the United States, and says the warship ends since the U.S. has hated globally, meanwhile the Trump administration is intensifying economic pressure against Iran. You're listening to NPR. Indie car racers hit the streets of Washington, DC this weekend, in this one time only,
Freedom 250 Grand Prix, as WDET's Quinn Klein filter reports, the event almost took a different path around Washington. The Indie car series, owned by Detroit-based Roger Penske, will send drivers along a temporary track, winding on and around the national mall. But the man who designed the race course, Penske Corporation President Buddenker says it's
not exactly what he first had in mind. Originally, I had a track around the nation's capital.
Never required a congressional bill, I didn't know that. I couldn't get the 60 votes in
the Senate. I had the House covered. President Trump, who has pushed for flashy celebrations of the nation's 250th birthday, signed an executive order bypassing Congress to allow the race to proceed away from capital hill. Trump is also scheduled to take a ceremonial lap around the track.
For NPR News, I'm Quinn Klein filter, Indie Troy. Tesla and some Chinese car makers are recalling more than 4 million vehicles. Due to safety concerns, including risks tied to door handles on the vehicles. Tesla's recall is the biggest. It involves nearly 3 million vehicles, including Model 3, Y, X, and S over the door handles
safety risks. The recall follows China's announcement of February that starting next year, it would ban those hidden door handles after they failed to function and track passengers inside vehicles, including during emergency situations. The handles are commonly used on Tesla and on many Chinese electric vehicles.
I'm Linda Kenyan and PR News in 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.
