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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Giles Snyder. Democrats are accusing President Trump of weaponizing the Justice Department following the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey. A grand jury in Virginia handed down two charges against Comey days after Trump publicly demanded action. NPR's Mara Lyson says the Comey indictment is a turning point.
That marks the end of the post-Watergate reforms, which Watergate was a big ethics scandal involving the president of the United States, Richard Nixon. And these reforms enshrined a bunch of norms. They weren't laws. They were norms that were supposed to prevent presidents from intervening directly in the affairs of the Justice Department. The idea is that justice was blind. It was supposed to be meted out fairly, not biased. with regard to whether you were a friend of the president or an enemy of the president.
President Trump has said it's about justice, not revenge. Attorney General Pam Bondi told Fox News last night that this is just the beginning. The Supreme Court has extended the Trump administration's request to withhold more than $4 billion in foreign aid. NPR's Matt Bloom reports on the latest win for the administration in a months-long legal fight over the funding.
The move allows the White House to continue to hold back funding that Congress had already approved for a number of global health programs. Trump initially sought to freeze the funding on his very first day in office in January.
What are the latest accusations against President Trump regarding the Justice Department?
Since then, international aid groups have sued to get the money, but in its latest ruling, the Supreme Court's conservative majority said Trump's foreign policy authority outweighs the harms claimed by the group's suing. The court's three liberal justices dissented, with Justice Elena Kagan writing that the Trump administration's request for emergency relief was granted with a, quote, scant briefing and no oral argument. The latest order pauses a lower court order that requires the funds be spent by next week or risk expiration.
Matt Bloom, NPR News. An autopsy has detected that the man accused of killing four people last month in a building that included the National Football League headquarters was suffering from a brain disorder known as CTE. Steve Fetterman reports.
27-year-old Shane Tamura targeted the NFL offices. He accused the league of concealing the potential dangers of football. After the shootings, Tamura killed himself. In a note, he said, "'Study my brain, please.'" The medical examiner found he was suffering a low stage level of the degenerative brain disorder CTE. Tamura played youth football here in the L.A. area and continued through high school. Chris Nowinski is co-founder of the Concussion Legacy Foundation.
If you start at six and you play through high school, no researcher who's paying attention to this is now surprised to find somebody who played that long having CTE.
How does the Comey indictment mark a turning point in U.S. political ethics?
Tamura shot himself in the chest, allowing for a complete study of his brain. For NPR News, I'm Steve Fudgerman in Los Angeles.
This is NPR News. The A-group Doctors Without Borders says it has suspended activities in Gaza City, citing intensified Israeli strikes and gunfire. The group says Israeli tanks are less than a half mile from its health care facilities, and that escalating attacks have created what it says is an unacceptable level of risk for staff. At the U.N. General Assembly in New York, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel must finish the job against Hamas. Dozens of delegates walked out as he began speaking. Netanyahu was due at the White House to meet with President Trump on Monday. New Mexico is officially clear of the measles outbreak that began in February. That's a word from the state's health department.
From Member Station KUNM, Megan Kamrick has more.
Acting state epidemiologist Dr. Chad Smelzer says there have been no new cases over the past 42 days, which equals two incubation periods for the disease.
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