This is next live from n.p.r. News in Washington Herbst a federal appeals court in Richmond Virginia hears arguments today in a case accusing President Trump of profiting off the presidency as N.P.R. s Bobbie Allen reports the case is one of 3 pending suit seeking to force Trump to divest himself from his business empire the attorneys general of Washington d.c. And Maryland say the president hosting foreign leaders at his own hotel just blocks away from the White House is illegal the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution prohibits federal officials from accepting profits and other perks from foreign governments attorney Deepak Gupta represents the state suing Trump unlike all previous presidents he took no steps to prevent his business intent comments with foreign governments and to this day we still have not seen an accounting of what payments President Trump is getting through his businesses from which foreign governments to similar suits are still active travel ministration lawyers
They will go on to the island and I will make every effort to recover all of the bodies from the auto and you know the people are confirmed dead more than 2 dozen are injured many in critical condition authorities in New Jersey are still investigating the motive of shootings in Jersey City this week N.P.R. s Quil Lawrence reports memorial services have begun for some of the 5 victims the 2 attackers are believed to be responsible for killing a livery cab driver on Sunday police put out an alert for the suspects U.-Haul van and that s why 39 year old Jersey City detective Joseph seals approached the van on Tuesday the heavily armed assailants gunned him down and then drove to a kosher grocery store and killed 3 people inside before police pin them down in what turned into a 3 hour firefight local officials say the attackers had posted support for anti Jewish groups on social media the victims inside the grocery store were Mindel for inch 32 who ran the store with her husband Moshe Deut
It s an inflation this is not a bipartisan bill Republicans in Congress have said the measure is a nonstarter and President Trump has said he will veto it that s all the more reason that we should really be setting a little higher standards in this building that s Congressman Boyd Doggett a progressive Democrat from Texas he and others on the left side of the Democratic Party have been pushing for last minute changes ahead of the full vote Selena Simmons deafen n.p.r. News education secretary Betsy De Vos testifies on Capitol Hill today answering questions about how her department incorrectly collected federal student student loan repayments from borrowers who were defrauded by for profit colleges more than 200000 borrowers are in financial limbo waiting for the government to process their claims that their colleges lied to them about things like job prospects and transfer credits for financial markets Asian markets were higher by the close the Nikkei in Japan up 110th of a percent if