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--:-- Giles Snyder: Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Giles Snyder.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Democrats are accusing President Trump of weaponizing the Justice Department following the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey. A grand jury in Virginia handed down two charges against Comey days after Trump publicly demanded action.
--:-- Mara Lison: NPR's Mara Lison says the Comey indictment is a turning point. It marks the end of the post-Watergate reforms, which Watergate was a big ethics scandal involving the president of the United States, Richard Nixon. And these reforms enshrined a bunch of norms. They weren't laws. They were norms that were supposed to prevent presidents from intervening directly in the affairs of the Justice Department. The idea is that justice was blind. It was supposed to be meted out fairly, not with regard to whether you were a friend of the president or an enemy of the president.
--:-- Mara Lison: President Trump has said it about justice not revenge Attorney General Pam Bondi told Fox News last night that this is just the beginning
--:-- Giles Snyder: The Supreme Court has extended the Trump administration request to withhold more than a billion in foreign aid NPR Matt Bloom reports on the latest win for the administration in a months-long legal fight over the funding.
--:-- Matt Bloom: The move allows the White House to continue to hold back funding that Congress had already approved for a number of global health programs. Trump initially sought to freeze the funding on its very first day in office in January. Since then, international aid groups have sued to get the money, but in its latest ruling, the Supreme Court's conservative majority said Trump's foreign policy authority outweighs the harms claimed by the group suing.
--:-- Matt Bloom: The court's three liberal justices dissented, with Justice Elena Kagan writing that the Trump administration's request for emergency relief was granted with a, quote, scant briefing and no oral argument.
--:-- Matt Bloom: The latest order pauses a lower court order that requires the funds be spent by next week or risk expiration.
--:-- Giles Snyder: An autopsy has detected that the man accused of killing four people last month in a building that included the National Football League headquarters was suffering from a brain disorder known as CTE Steve Futterman reports.
--:-- Steve Futterman: 27 Shane Tamura targeted the NFL offices He accused the league of concealing the potential dangers of football After the shootings Tamura killed himself In a note he said study my brain please
--:-- Steve Futterman: The medical examiner found he was suffering a low stage level of the degenerative brain disorder CTE. Tamura played youth football here in the L.A. area and continued through high school.
--:-- Chris Nowinski: If you start at six and you play through high school, no researcher who's paying attention to this is now surprised to find somebody who played that long having CTE.
--:-- Steve Futterman: Tamura shot himself in the chest, allowing for a complete study of his brain.
--:-- Giles Snyder: For NPR News, I'm Steve Futterman in Los Angeles.
--:-- Giles Snyder: This is NPR News.
--:-- Giles Snyder: The A-group Doctors Without Borders says it has suspended activities in Gaza City, citing intensified Israeli strikes and gunfire.
--:-- Giles Snyder: The group says Israeli tanks are less than a half mile from its health care facilities, and that escalating attacks have created what it says is an unacceptable level of risk for staff.
--:-- Giles Snyder: At the U.N. General Assembly in New York, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel must finish the job against Hamas. Dozens of delegates walked out as he began speaking.
--:-- Giles Snyder: Netanyahu is due at the White House to meet with President Trump on Monday
--:-- Giles Snyder: New Mexico is officially clear of the measles outbreak that began in February That a word from the state health department From Member Station KUNM Megan Kamrick has more.
--:-- Megan Kamrick: Acting state epidemiologist Dr. Chad Smelzer says there have been no new cases over the past 42 days, which equals two incubation periods for the disease. Also, wastewater samples have been negative for quite a while around the state.
--:-- Megan Kamrick: Smelzer says the state overcame the outbreak, even as other states like Arizona and Utah are seeing rising cases. We were very aggressive with case investigation and contact tracing, so trying to stop spread once a case was identified.
--:-- Megan Kamrick: He also credits high vaccination rates and health care providers' work, especially in identifying and reporting the cases. 100 measles cases were identified in New Mexico, which health officials say was likely due to an outbreak in neighboring West Texas.
--:-- Giles Snyder: For NPR News, I'm Megan Kamrick in Albuquerque.
--:-- Giles Snyder: And I'm Giles Snyder. This is NPR News from Washington.
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