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NPR sues Trump administration over executive order to cut federal

funding to public media

By DAVID BAUDER vene the Corporation for
AP Media Writer Public Broadcasting, a pri-
NEW YORK (AP) — Nation- vate nonprofit corporation
al Public Radio and three set up to distribute federal
of its local stations sued funding to NPR and PBS,
President Donald Trump which is intended to insu-
on Tuesday, arguing that late the system from politi-
his executive order cutting cal interference. Congress
funding to the 246-station has appropriated $535 mil-
network violates their free lion yearly to CPB for 2025,
speech and relies on an 2026 and 2027.
authority that he does not In response to the lawsuit,
have. White House deputy press
Earlier this month, Trump secretary Harrison Fields
instructed the Corporation said that CPB “is creating
for Public Broadcasting media to support a par-
and federal agencies to ticular political party on the
cease funding for NPR and taxpayers’ dime,” so Trump
PBS, either directly or indi- was exercising his authority
rectly. The president and his under the law. “The presi-
supporters argue their news dent was elected with a
reporting promotes liberal mandate to ensure effi-
bias and shouldn’t be sup- cient use of taxpayer dol-
ported by taxpayers. lars, and he will continue
Retaliation is Trump’s plain The headquarters for National Public Radio (NPR) is seen in Washington, April 15, 2013. to use his lawful authority
Associated Press
purpose, the lawsuit ar- to achieve that objective,”
gues. It was filed in federal the system’s diversity in ur- NPR to adapt its journalis- NPR’s CEO, said Tuesday. Fields said.
court in Washington by NPR ban and rural areas. tic standards and editorial Lawsuit says Trump is tar- Trump hasn’t hidden his
and three Colorado enti- “By basing its directives choices to the preferences geting a private nonprofit feelings about NPR, calling
ties Colorado Public Radio, on the substance of NPR’s of the government if it is to corporation it a “liberal disinformation
Aspen Public Radio and programming, the execu- continue to receive federal The lawsuit alleges that machine” in an April social
KUTE, Inc., chosen to show tive order seeks to force funding,” Katherine Maher, Trump is acting to contra- media post.q

Vessel’s implosion can be heard on new video from expedition to

Titanic wreckage

By HOLLY RAMER and his 19-year-old son, Suleman.
Associated Press The implosion sparked international de-
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — U.S. Coast Guard bate about the future of private deep-
officials investigating the disappearance sea travel and an ongoing Coast Guard
of an experimental submersible on its way investigation. After holding public hear-
to the Titanic wreckage in 2023 have re- ings in September, the Coast Guard last
leased video recorded aboard its support week released a two-and-a-half minute
ship from the moment the sound of its im- video showing Rush’s wife, Wendy Rush,
plosion reached the ocean’s surface. and an OceanGate employee monitoring
The Titan vanished June 18, 2023, on its way the submersible’s descent from the Polar
to the wreck of the Titanic in the North At- Prince support ship.
lantic Ocean, setting off a five-day search The video shows Wendy Rush and Gary
that ended with authorities saying all five Foss sitting in front of a computer. After a
passengers had died when the vessel im- faint sound like a closing door, Rush asks,
ploded. “What was that bang?”
On board were Stockton Rush, CEO of the The Coast Guard says it believes it was the
Debris from the Titan submersible, recovered from the ocean company that built the Titan, along with sound of the Titan’s implosion reaching the
floor near the wreck of the Titanic, is unloaded from the ship British explorer Hamish Harding, veteran surface of the ocean.
Horizon Arctic at the Canadian Coast Guard pier in St. John’s, French diver Paul Henri Nargeolet, British- About 2 minutes later, Foss says, “We’ve
Newfoundland, Wednesday, June 28, 2023.
Associated Press Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood lost tracking.”q