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What is the Senate considering regarding the $9.4 billion aid and NPR funding?
Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Sangh. The US Senate could proceed in the coming hours on the White House's request to rescind nine point four billion dollars Congress had previously approved. Most of that funding was intended for international aid, the remainder a little over a billion dollars was slated for the corporation for public broadcasting, which funds NPR and PBS. Today on Capitol Hill, lawmakers voted to advance a funding bill for the Census Bureau with a controversial proposal to alter a special set of census numbers. NPR's Hanzi Lo Wong reports those figures influence elections for presidents in the House of Representatives.
There's a key set of census numbers that are used to determine how many US House seats and electoral college votes each state gets for a decade. The fourteenth Amendment says those apportionment counts must include the quote whole number of persons in each state. But Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee have released a funding bill that would ban the Census Bureau from including the millions of people living in the states without legal status. Other GOP lawmakers have introduced similar bills that would exclude a broader group, all people living in the states without U.S.
How might proposed census funding changes affect representation and the 14th Amendment?
citizenship, including green card holders. President Trump recently said he would support such a proposal. He tried and failed to carry out a version of it for the 2020 census. If any of the current bills in Congress passed, they would likely be challenged in court. Hansie Lewang in PR News, Washington.
Attorney General Pam Bondi has tried to sidestep questions about her handling of the investigative files of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. She also refused to address reports of a rift with the FBI's deputy director over the Epstein investigation. More from NPR's Ryan Lucas.
Bondy has come under a wave of criticism from many in President Trump's MAGA Bay since the Justice Department released a memo last week stating that there was no Epstein client list, that Epstein had indeed died by suicide, and that no further files from the investigation would be made public.
Why is Attorney General Pam Bondi facing criticism over the Epstein investigation?
Some critics have called for Bondi's resignation. Asked how she would respond to the MAGA frustrations, Bondi said this.
We're going to fight to keep America safe again, and we're fighting together as a team.
The Attorney General also refused to address reports of a major rift with FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino over the Epstein matter.
I'm not gonna discuss personnel matters. I think we all are committed to working together now to make America safe again. Ryan
Lucas, NPR News, Washington.
Президент Трамп у Indonesia.
We have full access to Indonesia.
How are Trump’s tariffs influencing U.S. inflation and consumer prices?
Everything as you know, Indonesia is very strong on copper, but we have full access to everything. We will pay no tariffs.
Meanwhile, Trump's tariffs are finally starting to have an impact on inflation, as economists had cautioned. Consumer prices rose two point seven percent in June from a year ago, a bigger annual increase than the two point four percent rise seen in May. US stocks end the day mix with the Dow down four hundred thirty-six points. This is NPR News. The head of the world's most valuable company, chipmaker, Nvidia, says the US government will allow it to sell high end artificial intelligence chips to China, reversing a previous ban. NPR's Anthony Kuhn has more from Beijing.
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang spoke to reporters in Beijing where he's attending a conference.
What does NVIDIA’s CEO say about U.S. licensing for AI chips to China?
He said the U.S. government has assured NVIDIA it will be granted licenses to export its H20 chips to China, and the company hopes to start shipment soon. Huang argues the China market is too innovative for U.S. firms not to compete in. The White House banned sales of the H twenty to China in April on concerns it could help China's military. Huang has lobbied President Trump to lift the ban. Nvidia has said the restrictions would cut its revenues by $15 billion. The China market has been critical to the growth of NVIDIA, which last week became the first company to see its market value exceed $4 trillion.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the Senate considering regarding the $9.4 billion aid and NPR funding?
0:01–1:09
2
How might proposed census funding changes affect representation and the 14th Amendment?
1:09–1:56
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Why is Attorney General Pam Bondi facing criticism over the Epstein investigation?
1:56–2:30
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How are Trump’s tariffs influencing U.S. inflation and consumer prices?
2:30–3:21
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What does NVIDIA’s CEO say about U.S. licensing for AI chips to China?
3:21–4:01
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Who was Fauchis Sang and why is his marathon legacy inspiring?
4:01–4:39