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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. President Trump wants the government he leads to pay him billions of dollars. Trump has filed claims over the search of his Florida resort and the leak of his tax returns in 2019. As NPR's Kerry Johnson reports.
The president's asking for more than $10 billion because of damage he says he suffered after his tax returns became public and an FBI search for classified papers at Mar-a-Lago. The legal demands are putting his appointees at the Justice Department on the spot. Both the attorney general and the deputy AG once served as Trump's personal lawyers.
A spokesperson there says officials follow the guidance of career ethics lawyers. Most legal claims like these against the government involve crashes of postal trucks or medical malpractice in federal hospitals for veterans. President Trump's demands for money are many times greater than in those run-of-the-mill cases. He says he'll give any money he recovers to charity.
Carrie Johnson, NPR News, Washington.
Environmental and public health groups sued the Trump administration today for ending regulations on climate pollution. They argue the White House is violating the law and rehashing arguments the Supreme Court already decided. Here's NPR's Jeff Brady.
The Trump administration repealed the basis for federal action to rein in the greenhouse gases heating the climate.
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Chapter 2: What legal claims is President Trump making against the government?
Under the Clean Air Act, the Environmental Protection Agency previously found that greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare. Now the Trump EPA reversed that endangerment finding, calling it the largest deregulatory action in U.S. history. Among the groups filing the lawsuit are the American Lung Association, Earth, Justice, and Public Citizen.
The case likely will take years to litigate and could bring the issue of regulating climate pollution before a Supreme Court that is more conservative than the one that issued the original decision in 2007. Jeff Frady, NPR News.
Authorities in Northern California say the bodies of eight backcountry skiers have been found. They say the eight were found fairly close together and that three of them were found by the skiers who survived Tuesday's avalanche near Lake Tahoe. One remains missing. The U.S. is becoming more renter-friendly, according to a report from Realtor.com on January's rental market.
NPR's Stephen Passaha says more renters have bargaining power.
There are some exceptions where landlords have more power. Coastal cities like Boston, New York City, and San Jose still have few vacancies. But empty apartments across most of the country are pushing rents down. In the 50 largest metros, the median asking rent in January was a bit under $1,700, down 1.5% from a year earlier.
A big reason for dropping rents and vacancies are new apartments being built, especially in the Sunbelt. But the National Association of Realtors is expecting apartment construction to slow down this year, in part because of those vacancies. Stephen Passaha, NPR News.
And you're listening to NPR News. New Jersey's Newark International Airport is getting back to normal. Flights have resumed after a JetBlue flight suffered an engine failure on takeoff and returned to the airport. The FAA says that crew reported smoke in the cockpit. The flight returned to New York and passengers evacuated using those slides. The incident forced Newark into a brief ground stop.
The movie industry has been on a ticket-selling spree this year with the best first six weeks since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. NPR's Bob Mondello reports.
Ticket sales of about $900 million since January 1st have cinemas riding high at what's usually a slack time for the film industry. Holiday hits like Avatar Fire and Ash and Marty Supreme are still doing well.
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