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Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. The Trump administration is revoking the scientific finding the government uses for federal actions on climate change.
We are officially terminating the so-called endangerment finding, a disastrous Obama-era policy that severely damaged the American auto industry and massively drove up prices for American consumers. Prices went up incredibly for a worse product.
What recent changes has the Trump administration made regarding climate policy?
President Trump speaking at the White House with Environmental Protection Agency Director Lee Zeldin by his side. The endangerment finding links greenhouse gas emissions to human health. Trump also eliminated federal tailpipe standards for cars and trucks. The decision is expected to lead to lengthy court battles. PARTIAL SHUTDOWN OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY APPEARS IMMINENT. DHS FUNDING SET TO EXPIRE TODAY. NPR'S BARBARA SPRONT REPORTS A SENATE FAILED TO PASS A BILL TO FUND THE DEPARTMENT THROUGH THE END OF SEPTEMBER.
THE FAILED VOTE WAS EXPECTED AFTER SENATE DEMOCRATS PLEDGED NOT TO SUPPORT IT WITHOUT MAJOR CHANGES TO DEPARTMENT POLICIES IN THE WAKE OF TWO FATAL SHOOTINGS BY IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT IN MINNEAPOLIS. BOTH PARTIES HAVE BEEN NEGOTIATING ON A SERIES OF PROPOSALS FOR THE DEPARTMENT, but no consensus has been reached. Democrats have said that any changes must be made through the legislative process, not by executive order. in order to ensure that they're codified into law. Barbara Sprint and Peer News, Washington.
President Trump's border czar, Tom Holman, says the immigration crackdown in Minnesota is coming to an end. Holman made the announcement on Thursday, saying the Homeland Security Department has accomplished its goals in the state. The crackdown led to mass protests, thousands of arrests, and two fatal shootings. President Trump and visiting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met Thursday and talked about the chances of securing a nuclear deal with Iran. Here's NPR's Daniel Estrin reporting.
Netanyahu told reporters that Trump believes the conditions he's creating now can lead to a deal with Iran. Netanyahu said, quote, Next week, Trump will convene his Board of Peace in Washington. A U.S. official tells NPR on condition of anonymity... that Trump is expected to announce an international stabilization force with thousands of troops from several countries to deploy in Gaza, along with raising billions of dollars for reconstruction. Daniel Estrin, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
A federal judge has blocked the Pentagon from punishing Arizona Democratic Senator Mark Kelly for participating in that video that called on troops to resist unlawful orders. You're listening to NPR News. The Bangladesh Nationalist Party, the BNP, is claiming victory in Thursday's parliamentary election, the first since the 2024 uprising that led to the ouster of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Final results have not yet been announced, but in a social media post, the BNP said it has secured enough seats in parliament to govern on its own. The BNP has spent years in opposition. It boycotted several elections, accusing Asina's government of vote rigging and political repression. A star in the nearby Andromeda galaxy has essentially vanished.
NPR's Nell Greenfield-Boyce reports that some astronomers think it indicates the birth of a black hole.
Recently, some researchers were going through archival data from a NASA spacecraft to track any changes in the brightness of millions of stars over a 15-year period. And this one massive star really stood out as unusual. Kishaloy Day is an astronomer with Columbia University and the Flatiron Institute.
What we found was that somewhere around 2015, 2016 or so, it actually brightened in infrared light for about a year before it essentially plummeted and disappeared.
In the journal Science, he and his colleagues say the best explanation for this star winking out is that it ran out of fuel and imploded, transforming into a black hole, something that's been seen as theoretically possible, but hard to detect. Nell Greenfield, Boyce, NPR News.
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