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Kristen Wright
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Kristen Wright, the corporate parent of cbs, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central and Paramount Pictures. And as a new owner, the FCC has approved its takeover by the Ellison family and Skydance Media. As NPR's David Folkenflick reports, Paramount and Skydance made concessions to the Trump administration to secure the deal.
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David Folkenflick
Paramount controlling owner Sherry Redstone had told associates Paramount could not compete with the digital giants Netflix and Amazon. Skydance is controlled by another titan, Oracle founder and Trump supporter Larry Ellison and his son David. The FCC's approval comes after Paramount agreed to pay $16 million to settle lawsuit by Trump against CBS News over an interview with Kamala Harris. Outside legal scholars called the suit frivolous. Skydance also agreed to scotch Paramount's DEI initiatives in the US and to take steps to ensure ideological diversity in its programs and news. Trump's FCC chairman, Brendan Carr, celebrated, calling it a blow against bias in mainstream media. David Folkenflick, NPR News.
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Kristen Wright
President Trump has signed an executive order to overhaul how the U.S. manages homelessness. As NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports. Now it calls for making it easier to move people from street encampments and into treatment.
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The order says endemic vagrancy has made cities unsafe and getting people into long term care for addiction or mental illness will restore public order. It calls on the attorney general to make it easier to commit people against their will by challenging past legal precedents. Critics say that would violate civil rights. Trump's action also calls for shifting federal funding toward treatment programs in instead of housing. But some experts say forcing treatment does not work and that losing badly needed housing will only make it harder for communities to reduce homelessness. Jennifer Lutton, NPR News, Washington.
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Kristen Wright
The Senate Judiciary Committee has advanced the nomination of Jeanine Pirro to lead the U.S. attorney's office in Washington, D.C. nPR's Carrie Johnson reports. Lawmakers hotly debated Pirro's long record.
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Carrie Johnson
The committee voted 12 to 10 along party lines to move forward with the nomination of Jeanine Pirro. She's a former local prosecutor in New York who went on to serve as a Fox News personality. Democrats on the panel pointed out the Network paid nearly $800 million to Dominion Voting Systems in part because of false statements Pirro made about voting security in the 2020 election. Since then, she's called defendants who stormed the US Capitol hostages and told senators she was not aware President Trump had pardoned rioters who assaulted police on January 6, 2021. She still requires a vote by the full Senate. If she's confirmed, she'll lead the largest U.S. attorney's office in the nation with some 330 prosecutors. Carrie Johnson, NPR News, Washington.
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Kristen Wright
You're listening to NPR News in Washington. The journal Science is retracting a paper that claim to find a new form of life in a California lake. As NPR's Jeff Brumfeld reports, the retraction comes 15 years after the paper's original publication.
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Jeff Brumfiel
In the 2010 study, NASA scientists claimed to have discovered a bacteria that did not need the element phosphorus to survive. Instead, they said it used arsenic. Arsenic is highly toxic to virtually all forms of life. This new bacteria species might have demonstrated a life form that could inhabit other worlds. But follow up studies found the bacteria still needed phosphorus and was just resistant, resistant to arsenic. Despite flaws in the original experiment, Science did not retract the paper at the time. Now, 15 years later and following the divisive COVID 19 pandemic, it says its standards have changed. The journal will now retract debunked work even in cases where no misconduct occurred. The authors of the original paper say they do not support the retraction. Jeff Brumfiel, NPR News.
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Kristen Wright
Pro wrestling legend Hulk Hogan has died at 71. He suffered a cardiac arrest in Florida today. In the 80s, Hogan helped turn the WWE into a global phenomenon and became one of the most recognizable figures in pop culture. Born Terry Bollea, he became a household name with a larger than life personality and signature mustache. Homicide and other violent crime rates are falling in the U.S. according to a mid year analysis of crime data released today by the Council on Criminal Justice, a nonpartisan think tank. The analysis mirrors the findings of other research as well. I'm Kristen Wright and this is NPR News in Washington.
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