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Live from NPR News in New York City. I'm Doua Helisai. Kowtow. The Senate advanced a massive federal government funding package hours before the Friday night deadline. NPR's Luke Garrett reports.
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Senate Democrats and Republicans reached a deal to keep the government running. The agreement includes five appropriations bills funding the Pentagon Departments of Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, Health and Human Services, labor and Education. The deal also includes a stopgap measure to fund the Department of Homeland Security for two weeks. Senate Minority Leader Chuck schumer says the DHS's Immigration and Customs Enforcement needs reform following the killing of Alex Preddy in Minneapolis. Here's Schumer on the Senate floor.
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The clock is ticking. The nation is waiting, and the abuses of ICE must come to an end.
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The government funding package now goes back to the House, which returns Monday. Until then, a partial government shutdown will be in effect starting midnight. Luke Garrett, NPR News, Washington.
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As Senate Democrats press the Trump administration to stop letting immigration officers wear masks on the job, some states are also considering ways to ban the feds from wearing masks. What's unclear is whether states can do so. As NPR's Martin Costi reports, last fall.
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California was the first state to ban federal and local police from wearing masks. That law is now on hold, challenged in federal court by the Trump administration. It says agents need masks to avoid being doxed, and it's unconstitutional for states to do this. But state Senator Scott Weiner, who sponsored the California legislation, says the turmoil in Minnesota shows why states should try.
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This law was important when we passed it, and we're now seeing precisely why it is so important. These masks create an air of impunity and we have to get rid of them.
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Anti mask legislation has been introduced in more than a dozen other states. And earlier this week, a ban passed in the Washington state Senate. Martin Costi, NPR News.
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Luigi Mangione, the man accused of fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, is currently no longer facing the death penalty. Npr, Sarah Ventri reports.
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A federal judge determined that the requirements were not met to charge Mangione with the count that would have carried with it a possible death sentence. Now, if found guilty, the maximum penalty he faces in his federal case is life without the possibility of parole. The federal government could appeal this decision. The judge also determined that Mangione's backpack and its contents, key pieces of evidence, will in fact be admissible in the federal trial. Mangione's attorney, Karen Agnifolo, spoke outside the courthouse.
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We're prepared and have been prepared to fight this case, and we look forward to fighting this case.
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Jury selection is scheduled to begin in September. While Mangione's charges in New York state court continue to proceed, that trial could begin even sooner. Sara Ventri, NPR News, New York.
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And you're listening to NPR News. Blue Origin, the private space flight company founded by Jeff Bezos, is suspending flights of its suborbital New Shepard spacecraft, which took paying customers to the edge of space and back. Central Florida Public Media's Brendan Byrne reports.
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The company is suspending the space tourism flights of its New Shepard rocket to focus on developing a lunar lander. The rocket will remain grounded for at least two years. New Shepard flights have carried 98 humans above the Karman Line, the widely accepted boundary of space, about 62 miles above Earth and then safely back in a capsule that includes Bezos himself, along with paying customers and celebrities such as William Shatner and Katy Perry. The company says the shift allows Blue Origin to focus on building a lunar lander for NASA's human moon missions. The agency awarded Blue Origin a $3.4 billion contract to develop the spacecraft. For NPR News, I'm Brendan Byrne in Orlando.
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A virus that jumps from fruit bats to humans and has a high mortality rate has been confirmed in the eastern state of West Bengal in India. The World Health Organization says there is no evidence of transmission outside of South Asia. Health authorities say a male and female nurse, both 25 years and working at the same private hospital, were infected with the Nipah virus. And as of last week, the man is recovering, but the woman is in critical condition. The vaccine was first detected in Malaysia and Singapore back in 1999, and nearly every year since then has been detected in other parts of Asia. So far, there is no vaccine for the Nipah virus. I'm Dwahali Sai Kowtel, NPR News, in New York City.
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