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Shea Stevens
Live from NPR News. In Washington, I'm Shea Stevens. There's a Showdown in the U.S. house where Republicans are trying to push through President Trump's tax and spending priorities. GOP leaders spent much of Wednesday trying to win over the holdouts. Speaker Mike Johnson is confident that lawmakers will meet Trump's July 4 deadline for final passage.
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Mike Johnson
We are going to deliver the big beautiful bill, the president's America first agenda, and we're going to do right by the American people. This is going to be a great thing for the country. Look forward to moving it forward.
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Shea Stevens
Democrats and some moderate Republicans are worried about the impact of the plan's proposed Medicaid cuts, while conservative Republicans say it's not enough now that USAID is out of business. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the State Department is getting rid of what he calls a rainbow of unidentifiable logos on foreign aid programs. As NPR's Michelle Kellerman reports, all U.S. aid will now be branded with an American flag.
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Michelle Kellerman
In a social media post, the State Department says its redesign is very simple. Gone are the names of all the USAID programs, like Power Africa, Feed the Future or the president's Malaria initiative. Now there will be an American, American flag with the words, quote, provided by the United States of America. The Trump administration has canceled 83% of America's foreign aid programs and dissolved an agency that began in 1961. The Lancet medical Journal says the cuts could lead to 14 million deaths over the next five years. The administration disputes that claim. Michelle Kellerman, NPR News, the State Department.
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Shea Stevens
A federal jury reached a mixed verdict in the trial of Sean Combs, finding the hip hop mogul not guilty of sex trafficking and racketeering. WNYC Samantha Fox has reaction. In Harlem, where Combs grew up, it.
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Samantha Max
Was business as usual here after a jury convicted Combs on two counts and acquitted him of more serious charges. Vendors sold clothing, ambulance sirens blared and commuters waited for the bus. Sam Stigger says Combs means nothing to the local community.
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Sam Stigger
You see any signs, anybody celebrating, everybody saying go Diddy because it's wrong?
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Samantha Max
Prosecutors have accused Combs of creating a criminal enterprise to abuse women outside the famed Apollo Theater, Denver. Williams says the verdict is disheartening.
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Sam Stigger
I wouldn't know how to feel if I was those victims.
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Samantha Max
Combs has denied breaking the law. He faces up to 20 years in prison. For NPR News, I'm Samantha Max in New York.
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Shea Stevens
Wisconsin's highest court has struck down the state's 19th century abortion ban. The court's liberal majority says the 1849 law remained on the books but had already been superseded by more recent abortion statutes. The U.S. supreme Court ended the nationwide right to abortion nearly three years ago. This is NPR. A federal judge in Washington has blocked President Trump's executive order to suspend the processing of asylum claims at the southern U.S. border. U.S. district Judge Randolph Moss says Trump's actions threaten to create an alternative immigration system that's separate from the laws set by Congress. The administration argued that the Immigration and Nationality act allows the president to deny entry to the country. Judge Moss says the Constitution does not give presidents or their delegates any sweeping authority. The heat wave that's gripping Europe is beginning to subside in parts of France, but persists in Italy and Spain. As NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports, the high temperatures have smashed June records across southern Europe.
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Eleanor Beardsley
Retired climate reporter Jean Louis Cafier says its intensity, duration, early onset and wide geographic spread made this heat wave exceptional. But he says scientists have been warning about this for 25 years. This is just the beginning, he said. We are now going to see how global warming will play out on the ground in different countries, from heat waves to catastrophic storms. CAFE says 20 years ago, no one envisioned the things we're seeing now, like forest fires in Sweden and deadly flash flooding in Germany and Spain. His he says these phenomena will only accelerate. Eleanor Beardsley, NPR News, Burgundy, France.
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Shea Stevens
US Futures are virtually unchanged in after hours trading on Wall Street. On Asia Pacific markets, shares are mixed up a fraction in Shanghai. This is NPR News.
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