Chapter 1: What recent legal ruling affects President Trump's classified documents case?
Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. A federal judge has blocked part of former special counsel Jack Smith's report on President Trump's hoarding of classified documents from becoming public. NPR's Kerry Johnson has more on the ruling from Judge Eileen Cannon.
Judge Cannon, who was appointed by President Trump during his first term in office, says legal errors in the way the special counsel got his job bar any further action from him. The judge previously threw out an indictment against Trump for obstruction and unlawful retention of classified documents.
She says that should have stopped any additional work from Jack Smith, including the preparation of his final report. Judge Cannon says the report likely contains grand jury information. and she says to release it would damage the presumption of innocence that Trump is owed.
Chapter 2: Why has the U.S. ambassador to France been banned from meeting with officials?
Carrie Johnson, NPR News, Washington.
The U.S. ambassador to France has been banned from meeting with French ministers after failing to show up for a summons Monday evening. NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports that Ambassador Charles Kushner, the father of President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, is under scrutiny for his comments after a right-wing activist was killed in a fight with left-wing militants.
Chapter 3: What impact did the recent snowstorm have on the Northeast region?
The French government summoned Kushner after the U.S. Embassy posted on social media about the killing of 23-year-old Quentin Durand, saying violent radical leftism is on the rise in France and poses a threat to public safety. Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrault said the youth's death was being politicized by outsiders.
Kushner, a real estate magnate, reportedly cited personal commitments and sent a senior official in his place. In light of the failure to grasp the basic requirements of the ambassadorial mission, said the foreign ministry in a statement, Kushner would no longer be allowed direct access to members of the French government. Eleanor Beardsley, NPR News, Paris.
Chapter 4: What are the details surrounding Peter Mandelson's arrest in the UK?
The Northeast is beginning to dig out from that major snowstorm that brought blizzard conditions to the region. Roads are beginning to reopen and power is being restored. However, the National Weather Service is still warning of blizzard conditions across coastal Maine. U.S.
Olympic men's hockey team is back arriving to a hero's welcome in Miami on Monday after winning the gold medal over Canada at the Milan Winter Olympics, the first gold medal in men's hockey since the miracle on ice in 1980. Player Jack Hughes lost a tooth in the game but scored the winning goal.
Honestly, the gold medal is so important for us because we worked so hard to get to that point and
Chapter 5: What new discovery has been made about a species of dinosaur?
You know, it's for us, but the best part is it's for, like I was saying this, the day of the gold medal. It's for all the guys that have come before us and, you know, all the young kids that are going to come after us.
President Trump has invited both the gold medal winning men's and women's teams to attend his State of the Union address tonight, but the NHL and the PWHL seasons resume this week. This is NPR. Officials in the UK say the former British ambassador to the US, Peter Mandelson, has been released on bail.
Mandelson was arrested Monday in a misconduct investigation stemming from his ties with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Mandelson does not face any sexual misconduct allegations. Police are investigating him over documents suggesting he passed sensitive government information to Epstein. Scientists have discovered a new species of dinosaur.
NPR's Rebecca Herscher reports it was long as a bus and it ate fish.
The dinosaur is a type of Spinosaurus. That's a group of dinosaurs that were very large predators with long pointy skulls, ideal for fishing. The new species of Spinosaurus was discovered in the Sahara, in an area that was marshy when the animal lived about 95 million years ago. The discovery was made by an international group of scientists led by a team from the University of Chicago.
The details were published in the journal Science last week. The new species is different from its cousins because it has a large horn-like crest sticking up from its skull. The authors speculate that the animal used that crest to attract others of its species. Rebecca Herscher, NPR News.
Financial markets in Europe and Asia are mixed in Tuesday trading after Wall Street slumped Monday amid a sell-off in shares linked to artificial intelligence companies. Stocks largely down in early trading in Europe and Asia. Japan's benchmark DK advanced nine-tenths of a percent. I'm Giles Snyder. This is NPR News.
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