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Federal prosecutors are charging an officer with immigration and customs enforcement for
“lying to investigators about a shooting of a Venezuelan man in Minnesota earlier this”
year. The criminal case is not yet public, but was confirmed by a person not authorized speak publicly about an ongoing investigation. The charges represent a rare moment of the Justice Department seeking to hold immigration officers accountable.
The Christian Castro, the ice officer, was in North Minneapolis in January, is part of a broad immigration crackdown in the state known as Operation Metro Surge. Authorities say he fired his weapon through a closed door and shot Julio Sosa Selesa Venezuelan immigrant in the leg. When the Federal Reserve meets again in less than two weeks, investors will watch to see
if it holds interest rates steady or increases them. Board of governors member Chris for Waller said today he's in favor of keeping the rate at its current level, depending on how the economy performs. Today, Vice President J.D. Vance took issue with the Central Bank's actions so far. We believe that the Fed should be lowering interest rates.
“We feel quite confident that if you look at the inflation numbers, if you look at the”
CPI numbers, that it's proper and responsible for the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates. That is a very important thing. It's something that we care a great deal about.
Vance was leading the White House's first press briefing in over a month.
Posted Venezuelan President Nicolath Maduro and his wife for asking a federal judge in New York to toss the drug trafficking case against them. The new court filing the Maduro says attorneys say their clients should have immunity as the head of a foreign state and first lady. Here's NPR's Ryan Lucas.
And the new filing in federal court in Manhattan, Maduro's attorneys say no American court has ever presided over the criminal trial of a foreign leader who was recognized in their own country as the city in head of state. They say that's because heads of state are immune from prosecution in any national court but their own.
“And therefore they say the U.S. court lacks jurisdiction and must dismiss the indictment.”
Maduro faces narcoterrorism, drug and gun charges, both he and his wife, Celia Flores, were captured by the U.S. in a military raid in Caracas in January and brought to the U.S. to face trial. Both of them have pleaded not guilty, Ryan Lucas and B.R. News, Washington. The Massachusetts jury spent a six day attempting to reach a unanimous decision on whether
to find Lindsey Clancy criminally responsible for the 2023 killings of her three young children. She said that happened while she was suffering postpartum psychosis. The prosecution claims she knew exactly what she was doing.
The case could end in a mistrial if the jury were to return to the judge for a third time
claiming that they are deadlocked. You're listening to NPR News. The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo passed another grim milestone so far where the 3000 people have died in the outbreak. But in Pierce, off the Lambert reports, countries trying to contain the spread of Ebola
and there are signs of hope. But the number of new cases seems to have come down slightly from the peak in August, according to Africa CDC official Wesson Mancula. It's very early to say we have sustained the climb in this outbreak, but we see a good sign with this kind of plateau phase for the last two weeks.
The virus is starting to receive from previous hotspots, like Mangualu and Wampara, where the first cases were reported. But the virus is spreading in new regions in DRC, underlining the challenge of containing this outbreak. Jonathan Lambert and PR News.
In Florida, leaked grand jury report details how Governor Ron DeSantis's administration misappropriated millions from a Medicaid settlement to a U.S.F. stuckless soul has more.
The report says the money first went to a charity, then ultimately went to oppose an unsuccessful
state ballot proposal to allow recreational marijuana. The grand jury didn't issue indictments, saying no one would take responsibility. It did recommend more guardrails, U.S. representative Byron Donalds, the Republican nominee for Governor agrees. My commitments are very clear.
We are going to work with the legislature. We're going to make the necessary laws changes so that this does not occur again. The Democratic nominee David Jolly also wants to report that he wants another investigation too. The report details the involvement of two officials to Santa's later appointed to hire
office. Both are Arno Vimbers ballot and deny wrongdoing. For NPR News, I'm Douglas Sol in Tallahassee. This is NPR News. Hey, you know that nagging voice in your head, the one telling you to put the phone down and
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