Chapter 1: What recent resignations occurred in the Minnesota U.S. Attorney's Office?
Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. Several top prosecutors in the Minnesota U.S. Attorney's Office have resigned. They include Joe Thompson, who is best known for prosecuting social services fraud in Minnesota. The Minnesota U.S.
Attorney's Office has been under pressure from the Justice Department to investigate the widow of Renee Macklin Good, a 37-year-old mother of three, fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent last week.
NPR member station Minnesota Public Radio reports that when the DOJ declined to include the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension in its investigation, Thompson objected, according to a person familiar with the decision. A number of attorneys reportedly also voiced concern that immigration enforcement diverted resources away from prosecuting fraud cases in the state.
Chapter 2: How does the current inflation rate affect Federal Reserve decisions?
Inflation's holding firm, according to the Labor Department's report on the Consumer Price Index in December. Consumer prices were up 2.7 percent from the previous year, same as November's year-over-year increase.
Chapter 3: What is the significance of the House Oversight Committee's actions regarding the Clintons?
That'll weigh on Fed policymakers when they meet later this month to decide whether to cut the key interest rate for a fourth straight time. In an economic speech in Detroit today, President Trump alluded to prior resistance to lowering interest rates.
Today, If you announce great numbers, they raise interest rates to try and kill it. So you can never really have the kind of rally you should have.
Trump's clash with Fed Chair Jerome Powell over the central bank's previous resistance to lowering interest rates remains at the forefront. This week, former Fed chairs who served during Republican and Democratic administrations united to defend Powell against threats of a federal criminal investigation.
The Republican-led House Oversight Committee has announced plans to hold former President Bill Clinton and potentially former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in contempt of Congress.
Chapter 4: Why are New York City nurses striking during peak flu season?
The committee subpoenaed the Clintons for testimony related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. NPR's Sam Greenglass reports.
House Oversight Chair Kentucky Republican Congressman James Comer announced his plans after President Bill Clinton did not show up for a deposition.
Again, no one's accusing the Clintons of any wrongdoing. We just have questions, and I find it odd, not only they didn't show up, but that the Democrats on the committee, who are so concerned about getting to the bottom of the Epstein investigation, didn't even bother to show up.
In a letter to the committee, the Clintons called the subpoenas legally invalid and designed to embarrass political rivals, writing that, quote, every person has to decide when they have seen or had enough and are ready to fight for this country, its principles, and its people. Sam Greenglass, NPR News, Washington.
U.S. stocks trading sharply lower this hour with the Dow Jones Industrial Average now down more than 400 points or more than three quarters of a percent.
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of the new flu vaccination recommendations for children?
It's at 49,181. The S&P has lost 26 points. You're listening to NPR News. Cars hung, people wave in support, as heard via the Associated Press, as thousands of New York City nurses spend a second day on the picket lines for higher pay and more job protections. The nurses are targeting three major hospital systems. The strike stretched into a second day during peak flu season.
Many doctors are condemning the federal government's decision to stop recommending that children routinely get a flu shot in the middle of a bad flu season. NPR's Rob Stein has that story.
Instead of recommending that all kids get a flu shot every year, the Trump administration now says parents should talk to a health care professional to see if that's necessary. Many doctors worry that the new recommendation will result in fewer kids getting a flu shot, more kids catching the flu, ending up in a hospital, or even dying.
They say the decision is especially alarming right now, when the nation is in the midst of one of the worst flu seasons in years. At least 288 children died from the flu last season. Most were unvaccinated. And at least nine children have died from the flu so far this season. Rob Stein, NPR News.
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