Live from MPR News, I'm Giles Snyder.
Interior Secretary Doug Bergham says construction work on a huge arch near Arlington National
Cemetery will begin soon.
“Even as it faces an ongoing lawsuit as MPR's Emily Fang reports.”
Three veterans in an architectural historian argue that 255-foot gilded arch would disrupt sightlines between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery, and that the White House needs congressional approval for construction. Bergham wrote excavation work would begin in the next two weeks anyway. The arch is among several building projects the administration has championed to the capital,
including a planned golf course that would limit the public's access to a public park along the Potomac River and possibly demolishing the Kennedy Center. A massive new White House ballroom is also facing a lawsuit, but as with the arch, the Trump administration appears intent to build it faster than the courts can reach a decision on its legality.
Emily Fang and Pyrenees Washington Virginia Democratic Congressmen James Walkinshal is among a growing number of lawmakers including Republicans who are publicly criticizing defense secretary Pete Hag Seth for his handling of the Iran war and for leadership changes at the Pentagon. At a time when we're engaged in a war, a shooting war, we have absolute chaos in the
army and across the Department.
“North Carolina Republican Senator Tom Tilla's claims ex-ath for creating a leadership”
void. His remarks on social media came after army secretary Dan Dreskle resigned amid reports of tensions with hegg Seth on truth social Thursday night President Trump named Adam Taliz, the acting army secretary Taliz currently the assistant secretary of the army for civil works.
He worked at the White House during Trump's first term. In ice officer charge with making false statements about a shooting in about shooting of it as well in immigrant to Minneapolis has turned himself in and is now in federal
custody, a source of a million with the matter, but not authorized to speak publicly.
So as Christian Castro has an initial court appearance Friday, as in Pyrenees, you have met up with steel reports. The charges represent a rare moment in the Justice Department taking action against immigration officers for their actions and tactics while conducting arrests. Authorities say he fired his weapon through a closed door and shot of Venezuelan immigrant
in the leg.
“Officer Castro initially claimed under oath that he had been attacked, but surveillance footage”
appeared to contradict his claim. Castro also faces state-level charges in Minnesota. Federal immigration officers have been involved in more than two dozen shootings during the Trump administration's immigration crackdown. He met a Bustillo and Pyrenees Washington.
The jury and the Lindsey Clancy trial is to return Friday after again failing for a six-day to come to a verdict. The jury and Massachusetts charged with deciding whether to hold Clancy criminally responsible for killing her three children. Her attorney says one juror refusing to follow judges instructions.
This is MPR. Nine days after deadly flash flooding in Nepal, two workers have been pulled alive from a hydro power tunnel. The two were pulled to safety Friday to cheers from emergency workers after they heard voices coming from inside the tunnel.
Hundreds of others had the project remain missing, but officials say they are hopeful that more workers will be rescued. The Trump administration is making another move against diversity programs. The Treasury Department Thursday proposed a rule that would strip private schools and colleges of their tax exempt status if they provide targeted help to students based on race.
Proposed rules specifically says that any measure that helps students because of their race will be incompatible with the rule. After eight years traveling through space, a European space agency's mission to the planet Mercury is nearing its destination, and as Joe Powell reports, the spacecraft completed
a crucial maneuver early Thursday.
The mission is called Beppe Columbo. It's actually made of two probes, one that will study Mercury's magnetic field, and another that will take close-up pictures of the planet's surface among other things. In order to reach Mercury, Beppe Columbo needed to fly by Earth once, Venus twice, and Mercury itself six times.
During its eight-year cruise, the twin probes relied on something called the Mercury transfer module for propulsion, but that module had to be jettison before arrival. Now that's happened. The next mission milestone comes in November when the probes will be captured by Mercury's gravity and can go into orbit.
For NPR News, I'm Joe Palca. And I'm Jail Snyder, this is NPR News. This week on NewsMakers, after more than a decade in comedy, I wasn't sure that we would get here. Robbie Hoffman is fearless.
I had a small feeling I wasn't Joe, and fully herself. Well, I'm not home now, I'm doing something. We plunge into comedy and success with Robbie Hoffman on NPR NewsMakers.
