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The Trump administration is investigating sportswear giant Nike for allegedly discriminating against white employees through its diversity policies.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission subpoenaed the company's criteria for selecting employees for layoffs and how it tracks and uses worker race and ethnicity data.

Nike says it's been cooperating with the EEOC.

The EEOC investigation doesn't stem from a worker complaint, but from CEOC Chair Andrea Lucas using a rarely used tool based on Nike's public comments on its commitment to DEI.

A new social media platform is getting a lot of attention in Silicon Valley.

As NPR's John Ruich reports...

Moldbook is a platform for artificial intelligence bots to communicate with each other.

On Wall Street, the Dow is down 428 points.

I'm Janine Herbst, NPR News in Washington.

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The House this hour narrowly voted to advance a partial government shutdown-ending budget package, setting it up for a final vote later today that could send the more than $1 trillion measure to President Trump for his signature.

It funds much of the government through the end of September, but it only funds the Department of Homeland Security for two weeks, giving lawmakers a chance to debate changes to the agency.

This after Democrats refused to approve DHS funding without restrictions on immigration enforcement tactics after two U.S.

citizens in Minnesota were killed by federal officers.

Meanwhile, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says federal immigration officers in Minneapolis will start wearing body cameras.

NPR's Franco Ordonez has more.

Ukraine's main power provider says last night's strikes on the country's energy facilities from Russia were the biggest this year.

NPR's Eleanor Beardsley has more.

Pepsi's cutting prices on some of its popular snack foods.