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What are the details of James Comey's recent indictment?
Former FBI Director James Comey has been indicted again, this time over a social media photo of seashells arranged on a beach that officials say constituted a threat against President Trump. In a video statement, Comey says he is innocent.
It's really important that all of us remember this is not who we are as a country. This is not how the Department of Justice is supposed to be. And the good news is we get closer every day to restoring those values.
Comey says he assumed the arrangement of shells reading 86-47 was a political message, not a call to violence against Trump, the 47th president. It's the second criminal case the Justice Department has brought against Comey. Investigators are still looking into what may have motivated a Southern California man charged with attempting to assassinate President Trump over the weekend. 31-year-old Cole Thomas Allen was a high school educator. NPR's Odette Youssef reports.
Allen's family members have told reporters that he was a radical leftist. NPR has not independently confirmed these reports. But Jared Holt, an online extremism analyst with Open Measures, says writings and social media accounts believed to be associated with Allen paint a different picture.
They're really not that radical. Oftentimes it's like quite centrist, pretty moderate left wing, if anything.
Holt says that unlike some of the prior assassination attempts against Trump, the writings do not indicate that Allen was immersed in extreme or conspiracist information systems online. Odette Youssef, NPR News.
The United Arab Emirates has announced it will leave OPEC, dealing a blow to the oil cartel and its leader, Saudi Arabia. The UAE has long wanted to produce more oil than OPEC permitted, as NPR's Camilla Dominovsky explains.
individually, each country wants to produce as much oil as they can to make as much money as they can. But if every country did that, they would oversupply the market and crash prices. So they try to aim for a sweet spot, producing just enough that prices are high enough that they make a lot of money per barrel, but low enough that they don't crash the economy. And the UAE, as a major player in OPEC, had long argued that its share of the total oil pie was was too small, that it was having to give up more production than other members of the cartel. And by leaving, UAE will be freed up to produce as much as it can.
NPR's Camilla Dominovsky reporting, Purdue Pharma is expected to be ordered to pay $225 million in a criminal case related to how it sold its opioid painkiller OxyContin. If a judge accepts the deal, it opens the door for a separate settlement of thousands of lawsuits over the toll of opioids. the company would dissolve and members of the Sackler family who own the company would have to pay up to $7 billion. Some advocates want that deal to be blocked and are calling on members of the family to be criminally charged instead. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. Federal agents have served search warrants in Minnesota in an ongoing fraud investigation of publicly funded social programs for children.
Agents could be seen outside child care centers in the Minneapolis area today. Democratic Governor Tim Walz welcomed the action. The Trump administration has charged dozens of people, many of them Somali-Americans, with fleecing a kids' food program. Florida lawmakers are refusing to take up Republican Governor Ron DeSantis' call to repeal vaccine mandates in schools. From member station WUSF, Kerry Sheridan reports.
DeSantis wanted lawmakers to work on a medical freedom bill during the four-day session, but the Speaker of the Florida House, Republican Daniel Perez, says he won't bring the vaccine issue to the floor. He says he's uncomfortable with the idea of children being in school without protection against diseases like measles and polio. Aubrey Jewett is a political science professor at the University of Central Florida.
If the House isn't going to take it up, it's just not going to go anywhere.
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