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Jack Speier
Washington, I'm Jack Speier. The city of Memphis says it will not enter into a consent decree with the federal government to govern its police force. NPR's Debbie Elliott reports. The city's pushing back against US Justice Department report that finds a pattern of unconstitutional civil rights violations by the department.
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Debbie Elliott
The Justice Department says Memphis police regularly use excessive force, conduct unlawful stops, searches and arrests and discriminate against black residents and people with behavioral health disabilities. The findings come after a 16 month investigation into the practices of Memphis police initiated after the beating death of black motorist Tyre Nichols after traffic stop. Three fired officers were convicted on federal civil rights charges and two others pleaded guilty. The attorney for Memphis says city officials are not ready to negotiate reforms or enter into a consent decree and implies the federal probe was rushed. Debbie Elliot, NPR News.
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Jack Speier
Even as the search for a masked gunman who shot and killed a healthcare CEO on the streets of New York City continues, police say they're finding more clues. Law enforcement officials say that includes recovered ammunition discovered on the street after the shooting with words like deny, defend and depose written on them. The words may have been a reference to tactics insurers sometimes used to deny claims, though it's unclear why a gun had opened fire killing 50 year old United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Surveillance video showed a masked gunman opening fire on Thompson from behind as he was walking to a hotel to attend an investor conference. The Biden administration is trying to finalize a massive expansion of solar power development on Western lands before leaving office. But NPR's Kirk Zigler reports there's growing opposition to the Western Solar plan in states like Nevada.
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Kirk Zigler
Once finalized, the plan could open up tens of millions of acres of federal public land across 11 states to solar energy development. That would still pale compared to how much federal land is open to oil and gas companies. But in rural Nevada, there's concern these massive developments are already affecting wildlife and view sheds. Joe Westerlin, the town manager in Tonopah, says there's little economic benefit apart from short term construction jobs.
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Kirk Zigler
Lot of full time long term residents or jobs, but the industry argues that renewable energy does offer lasting benefits. The outgoing administration's Western Solar plan is expected to be finalized by early next year. Kirk Zigler NPR News.
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Jack Speier
The two individuals will be heading up the private effort to radically reduce government spending, the so called Department of Government Efficiency, or doge. We're on Capitol Hill today. Elon Musk Musk and Vidak Ramaswamy have promised to cut trillions in federal government spending through a variety of methods, including firing government workers, cutting entire departments and eliminating what they term burdensome regulations. On Wall street, the dow is down 248 points. This is NPR. French President Emmanuel Macron says he'll name a new prime minister in coming days. NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports. He spoke a day after the prime minister and the government were ousted in a no confidence vote.
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Eleanor Beardsley
Macron gave a sort of we can do it pep talk to the nation. He said extremists on the right and left got together to overthrow the government in defiance of the Republic. They were not thinking of you or the well being of the country, he said, but of their own political futures. He said he was not to blame for the country's fragmented political situation and that he would complete his term. Macron challenged the French to use the same energy and spirit of cooperation that produced the Olympic Games and renovated Notre Dame Cathedral in just five years to make their own nation stronger, more innovative and productive. The world admired us, he said. Let's show them what we can do. Eleanor Beardsley in Pierre News, Paris.
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Jack Speier
Another delay for NASA's latest Artemis mission, which instead of next fall now apparently won't be sending astronauts into orbit around the moon until the spring of 2026. Engineers have been looking at how the Orion. Orion spacecraft's heat shields hold up under stress following an initial mission two years ago, it was found protective material unexpectedly wore away in flight. As part of the Artemis 2 mission, four astronauts would fly the spacecraft around the moon and then look to safely return to Earth. Critical futures prices lost ground today. Oil down 24 cents a barrel to settle at $68.30 a barrel in New York after investors deemed supply to be adequate, even as OPEC indicated it will delay a planned output increase. This is npr.
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