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What recent legal actions are being taken against Jim Comey?
Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. The Justice Department is going after former FBI Director Jim Comey again. Todd Blanch is President Trump's acting attorney general.
While this case is unique and this indictment stands out because of the name of the defendant, his alleged conduct is the same kind of conduct that we will never tolerate. and that we will always investigate and regularly prosecute.
A grand jury in North Carolina indicted Comey on Tuesday. The Justice Department accuses Comey of threatening President Trump. A Virginia judge threw out the first case against Comey, saying the prosecutor was not legally appointed. The second case is over a social media photo of seashells arranged to read 86-47. Comey later deleted the post and said he did not know that 86 could be considered a threat. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will be on Capitol Hill Wednesday. He's appearing before the House Armed Services Committee and will likely be questioned about the Iran war and his firing of top generals and other military leaders. The Supreme Court will hear arguments over the Trump administration's removal of protections for Haitians and Syrians Wednesday.
NPR's Andrea Hsu reports on senior citizens advocating for immigration caretakers.
More than 20,000 Haitians with TPS work as nursing assistants and caregivers, according to the immigration advocacy group Forward.us. even more work in dining services and other roles in long-term care facilities. Rita Simonala is a resident of Goodwin Living, a retirement community in northern Virginia. She says now is not the time to be forcing willing and able workers out.
This has a tremendous impact on American seniors. Hundreds of thousands turn 65 every year. Who's going to care for them?
The Trump administration has argued that TPS was always supposed to be temporary and that conditions in many countries have improved. That's despite ongoing warnings of unsafe conditions from the State Department. Andrea Hsu, NPR News.
Israeli Jewish settlers have attacked Palestinian homes in the West Bank village twice this week, NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports.
a group of 20 or so settlers was caught on camera monday as they ran down a hillside toward the village of jalud another close-up video shows them setting fire to a house as scared palestinian women scream and huddle out front black smoke billows from the door one settler was arrested according to the u.n office for humanitarian coordination some 36 000 palestinians have been displaced in the west bank since the october 7 2023 war in gaza The organization says more than 1,000 have been killed by settlers and the Israeli army in the last two and a half years. Two settlers in the Israeli cabinet have made no secret of the fact that they want to drive Palestinians from their land and increase settlements.
More settlements have been approved in the last year than in the previous two decades. Eleanor Beardsley, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
This is NPR News. Much of Bali is still reeling from the largest coordinated attack in more than a decade by militants, including an al-Qaeda affiliate. The militants have taken over a key city and have announced a blockade on the capital. This offensive threatens to worsen a security crisis in West Africa's Sahel, already one of the world's deadliest regions, as NPR's Jewel Bright reports.
The attacks this weekend were carried out by the Al-Qaeda-linked JNIM group and Tuareg separatist rebels. The groups launched an offensive that experts say is unprecedented on at least six cities, including the capital, Bamako. They also attacked a town just north of the capital where the military junta resides, killing Mali's defense minister, and injuring another senior government official. The whereabouts of Mali's military leader, Asimi Goita, is unknown. Former Russian mercenaries now embedded in the Russian defense forces are also fighting alongside Mali's army. On Tuesday, Russia's defense ministry said about 12,000 militants attempted a coup that it helped repel.
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