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--:-- Ryland Barton: Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. President Trump has given his budget director, Russell Vogt, wide authority to cut staff and services across the federal government during the shutdown.
--:-- Ryland Barton: In an online post, the Office of Management and Budget said it's preparing to batten down the hatches with more reductions in force or firings to come.
--:-- Ryland Barton: During a White House event, Trump said he's targeting programs that don't align with his priorities.
--:-- Ryland Barton: With closing up programs that are Democrat programs that we wanted to close up or that we never wanted to happen, And now we're closing them up and we're not going to let them come back.
--:-- Ryland Barton: The Democrats are getting killed.
--:-- Ryan Lucas: The Republican-led Congress remains at a standstill. House leaders refuse to come back into session while the Senate is stuck in a loop of failed votes to reopen the government as Democrats demand health care funding.
--:-- Ryan Lucas: A State Department advisor and India expert has been charged with illegally possessing national defense information.
--:-- Ryan Lucas: Ashley Tellis is an India and South Asia expert who serves as an unpaid senior advisor at the State Department, a contractor at the Pentagon, and a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
--:-- Ryan Lucas: He was charged by criminal complaint with the unlawful retention of national defense information.
--:-- Ryan Lucas: Court documents say federal agents found more than 1,000 pages of documents with classified markings in TELUS's Virginia home, including in three black trash bags in a storage room.
--:-- Ryan Lucas: The criminal complaint also says TELUS has met at least five times since 2022 with Chinese government officials at Virginia restaurants, but it does not allege that he provided them with any classified materials.
--:-- Ryland Barton: Ryan Lucas, NPR News, Washington.
--:-- Ryland Barton: The Trump administration has revoked the visas of six foreigners they say made derisive comments about slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
--:-- Ryland Barton: The State Department said they should lose their visas after reviewing their social media posts.
--:-- Tom Reese: The man accused of firebombing the residence of Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro in April has pleaded guilty.
--:-- Tom Reese: From member station WESA, I'm Tom Reese.
--:-- Governor Josh Shapiro: I'm grateful to have closure after learning Cody Balmer will spend 25 to 50 years in prison as part of a plea deal.
--:-- Governor Josh Shapiro: Charges range from attempted murder to terrorism.
--:-- Governor Josh Shapiro: Shapiro and guests were asleep inside the Harrisburg home after celebrating Passover when Ballmer entered and threw beer bottles filled with gasoline into a dining room.
--:-- Governor Josh Shapiro: Shapiro says the threat of violence remains with him.
--:-- Governor Josh Shapiro: I think it's important that in this time of rising political violence that none of us grow numb to it or accept this as the normal course of doing business for elected officials.
--:-- Governor Josh Shapiro: The governor's residence has undergone extensive security upgrades in the aftermath.
--:-- Tom Reese: For NPR News, I'm Tom Reese in Harrisburg.
--:-- Ryland Barton: Stocks closed mixed on Wall Street today as trade tensions continue to simmer between the U.S. and China.
--:-- Ryland Barton: This is NPR News.
--:-- Ryland Barton: A Florida judge has temporarily blocked the transfer of land in downtown Miami for Donald Trump's future presidential library.
--:-- Ryland Barton: An activist alleged that officials at a local college violated Florida's open government law when they gave the real estate plot to the state, which then transferred it to Trump's Presidential Library Foundation.
--:-- Ryland Barton: The property is valued at more than $67 million.
--:-- Ryland Barton: French Prime Minister Sébastien Le Corneau says he will end a push to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64.
--:-- Ryland Barton: It's a move aimed at preventing his minority government from being toppled.
--:-- Ryland Barton: And neo singer D has died at the age of 51.
--:-- Ryland Barton: He stood at the forefront of a soul music revival in the 1990s and early 2000s.
--:-- Rodney Carmichael: A sometimes reluctant icon, D'Angelo was best known for his hits Brown Sugar and Untitled, How Does It Feel?
--:-- Rodney Carmichael: The neo-soul movement he helped to find included contemporaries and collaborators ranging from Erykah Badu, Maxwell, and Angie Stone to Raphael Sadiq, Questlove, and Jay Dillow.
--:-- Rodney Carmichael: The release of Voodoo in 2000 shot D'Angelo to superstardom and sex symbol status.
--:-- Rodney Carmichael: Following a long period of reclusion from the music industry, including battles with depression, he began his own creative resurrection, culminating with the release of his final studio album, 2014's Black Messiah.
--:-- Rodney Carmichael: D'Angelo had been battling cancer, according to a statement from his family.
--:-- Ryland Barton: Rodney Carmichael, NPR News.
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