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What executive order did President Trump sign regarding voter ID?
An order that would create a national voter list. I'm Lisa Lucera, Fox News. President Trump signing the executive order about 90 minutes ago.
The only people that don't want to do voter ID are people that cheat. There's no other reason for it.
The order calls for the Department of Homeland Security working with the Social Security Administration to make a list of eligible voters in each state and seeks to prevent the Postal Service from sending absentee ballots to people not on each state's approved list. The president also wants the ballots to have secure envelopes with barcodes for tracking. Oregon and Arizona have already pledged legal challenges to the order. On Iran, the president said the U.S. mission will be done in two to three weeks and said securing the Strait of Hormuz is not up to us.
What happens to the Strait, we're not going to have anything to do with because these countries, China, China will go up and they'll fuel up their beautiful ships and they'll leave and they'll take care of themselves. There's no reason for us to do it.
The president saying he's spoken to a lot of people in Iran recently and they're more accessible, adding Iran doesn't have to make a deal now. A federal judge says the University of Pennsylvania has to turn over its records on Jewish employees as part of an anti-Semitism investigation.
The EEOC filed suit to have a subpoena enforced to aid its investigation into illegal employment practices they say led to anti-Semitic harassment on campus. Judge Papert upheld most of the subpoena's provisions, but said the Ivy League school is not required to say if a worker is with a Jewish organization or give details about those groups. The judge also said employees can decline to cooperate with the federal investigation.
Fox's Colonel Scott Penn has until May 1st to comply with the federal subpoena. A different federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to suspend construction of the new ballroom at the White House. America's listening to Fox News.
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If all conditions remain clear, Americans will head back to the moon tomorrow night.
Four astronauts are set to blast off from the Kennedy Space Center Wednesday night for the Artemis II mission. And while it's not a moon landing, it will be the first time humans have been in lunar orbit since Apollo 17 in 1972. NASA's Jeff Spalding says everybody is in a good mood.
Normally when we're in the firing room working over there, folks got their heads down when they're working and they're doing all the business that we do in the space business, but I'll say there was a lot of smiles today.
Artemis II will also be the first crewed mission for NASA's Orion multipurpose vehicle, a taxpayer-funded next-generation space capsule, and the Space Launch System rockets. The mission is expected to be 10 days in duration and will splash land in the Pacific Ocean off the San Diego coast. In Miami, Eben Brown, Fox News.
A federal judge has permanently blocked the Trump administration from putting a presidential directive into place to end funding for national public radio and the public broadcasting system, citing the First Amendment. Former reality star Joseph Duggar has entered a non-guilty plea to all charges as he makes an initial court appearance in Florida.
The 31-year-old is accused of sexually assaulting a 9-year-old girl. multiple times during a family vacation to Panama City Beach in 2020. He is charged with lewd and lascivious molestation of a victim under 12 and lewd and lascivious conduct by a person over 18. Ahead of his court appearance, Duggar submitted the written plea, waived arraignment, and demanded a jury trial in a document signed by his attorney. His bond was set at $600,000 during the brief hearing, and he is due back in court April 20th.
Fox's Michelle Polino. Wall Street stocks surged to their best day since last spring as oil prices eased.
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