Lye from NPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Kivone.
jurors have found former gang member Duane Davis guilty of murder in orchestrating the 1996
killing of rap icon to Paxacor.
“Shacor was gunned down and adrive by shooting near the Las Vegas strip, September 7, 1996,”
following a Mike Tyson boxing match at the MGM Grand Hotel. Reporter Steve Futterman was in the courtroom for the verdict. And as the verdict was announced, Duane Davis stood at the defense table he showed little if any emotion. Earlier jurors heard arguments from both sides.
The prosecution saying that Duane Davis was out for revenge after his nephew had been assaulted by Shacor at the MGM Grand Hotel. The prosecution told jurors that Davis was hunting for Shacor. The defense argued that there was no proof that even though Davis has acknowledged involvement
in the shootings, these were exaggerations that he could not be believed.
In the end, though, the jury did believe what Davis had said, and he has been found guilty. For MPR News, I'm Steve Futterman at the County Courthouse in Las Vegas. The Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to continue with construction on
“a White House ballroom for now, and PR's Kerry Johnson reports the more than $300 million”
project represents a top priority for President Trump. The Supreme Court did not address the underlying issue, whether the demolition of the East Wing and construction of a new ballroom is legal. Rather, the court majority says the National Trust for Historic Preservation likely hasn't suffered a concrete injury that would allow it to suit a stop the project.
Leaders of the CIA, the FBI, and the Director of National Intelligence filed court papers arguing any delay could hurt National Security and make it harder to protect the president. Chief Justice John Roberts dissented, along with the Court's three liberal justices, Roberts wrote the construction is likely unlawful because Congress has not approved it. He noted the White House is not just any building, Kerry Johnson and PR News.
President Trump today stepped forward with a defensive data center construction across the U.S. in a social media post, the president said opponents could quote end up being backwards in poor data centers have become a key issue for voters in this year's midterm elections. Just about it today, Vice President JD Vance told reporters. I think probably 99% of the backlash to data centers has come in areas where building
a data center means higher utility and higher electricity for the people on the ground. So I think what these companies have to do is take advantage of some of the federal derregulatory efforts that we've undertaken.
“If you build the data center, you should be putting power back into the grid, not taking”
it out. And if that is happening, I don't think the data centers are that controversial. It's when the utility bills get so much higher, that's when it's a real problem. The president said that data centers will deliver lower taxes and more jobs. The Dow off 374 today, this is NPR.
The secretary of the Army, Dan Driscoll, is stepping down from his post after a year and a half on the job that's according to a U.S. official not authorized to speak publicly. No reason was given for the change by President JD Vance as a friend of Driscoll, but tensions between Driscoll and Defense Secretary Pied Heggseth have been reported. Soccer great Leonardo Messi announced his retirement today from international soccer, saying
he has nothing left to give and the time has come. John Bartlett reports. Messi retires as Argentina's most cut player, the country's top scorer and a world cup winner with the national team in the 2022 tournament in Qatar. He originally retired from international soccer in 2016 before reversing his decision and continuing
to play for La Albe Celeste as Argentina's national team in known and descended to near immortal status in his home country when he lifted the World Cup six years later, Argentina's first title since 1986. Messi won the ball on door, Soccer's most coveted individual honour, a record eight times, as well as dozens of trophies during his club career with Spanish Giants Barcelona and
French champions Paris Saint-Germain. 39-year-old Messi will continue to play for Inter Miami in Major League Soccer. Grand Pyrenees, on John Bartlett.
At the U.S. Open tennis fourth seed, no-vac joke-a-vitch lost in the first round of place
on day, a clearly ill joke-a-vitch lost in five sets to Mariana, no-vone of Argentina, Carlos Alcaras returned to the U.S. Open taking his first game showing no sign of the risk problems that it signed line to him for months. I'm Luis Givoni, and P.R. News. This season on Planet Money Summer School, we have drilled for oil in Norway.
We have smuggled products in the North Korea, and now we make it to our seventh continent at Harktica. That's right, big for me. Mr. Penguin, speak for me. I have another sound of Antarctica, that's a reporter trying to interview a penguin.
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