5 takeaways from this week — from courts pushing back on Trump to wars overseas
Here are five takeaways from a week when President Trump moved ahead with deportations and sweeping changes to the federal government — and ran into obstacles in the courts.
How Trump’s firings could upend a 90-year-old Supreme Court ruling limiting his power
Already, lower courts have found President Trump’s removal of Democratic members of independent agencies to be unlawful. The Trump administration has appealed.
Trump wants to erase DEI. Researchers worry it will upend work on health disparity
Cancer researchers working on health disparities say President Trump’s actions could hurt rural whites, who lag behind other groups in cancer screening.
Is planting trees ‘DEI’? Trump administration cuts nationwide tree-planting effort
The Trump administration’s efforts to end DEI programs is hitting some unexpected targets, including a nationwide effort planting shade trees in neighborhoods to reduce extreme heat.
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This week also saw a highly undramatic object cause drama and the happily undramatic return of the two NASA astronauts who had an unexpected stay on the International Space Station.
Hollywood filmmaker charged with defrauding Netflix of $11 million
Director Carl Erik Rinsch sold Netflix a sci-fi series. Instead of finishing it, prosecutors allege he spent some of the streamer’s money on his own investments, luxury rentals, five Rolls-Royces, a Ferrari, and more.
UK court finds men who stole $6 million gold toilet guilty
The artwork, titled, America, was stolen from the palace where Winston Churchill was born.
Farming is uncertain — a trade war makes it more so
Farmers already worry about things like crop prices, the cost of farm supplies and extreme weather.
Now, President Trump’s signature tariffs — and the federal government under the Trump administration — pose more big question marks.
We hear from Ann Veneman, the Secretary of Agriculture under George W. Bush.
And Robert Smith and Wailin Wong from NPR’s The Indicator from Planet Money report on what economic uncertainty means for one farmer.
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3 people face federal charges for Tesla attacks. Are such acts domestic terrorism?
Attorney General Pamela Bondi says the accused are part of a “wave of domestic terrorism.” Experts say this is a common stance of the federal government and can be used to seek stiffer penalties.
Judge calls ‘woefully insufficient’ the Trump administration response to his order
Judge James Boasberg had earlier asked the Trump administration to provide more details about weekend flights that deported hundreds of alleged Venezuelan gang members to El Salvador — despite his order to turn the planes around.
Why a DOJ prosecutor resigned, telling coworkers and bosses ‘you serve no man’
Former Assistant U.S. Attorney Sean Murphy resigned from the Department of Justice, telling NPR, ‘It just was not a Department of Justice that I any longer wanted to associate with.'”
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