Live from NPR News in Washington, on Corvac Olman, today's the funeral for Memphis motorist

Tyree Nichols.

He died three days after a savage beating by Memphis police officers and after Memphis

fire department paramedics would not immediately treat him.

Five officers have been fired and charged with murder.

Civil rights activist and Reverend Al Sharpton will give Nichols' eulogy.

He says Vice President Harris will attend today's service.

We are going to have a funeral, dignified funeral service, not a marathon tomorrow.

And let the family mourn and receive whatever messages and the Vice President.

But this is not about politics tomorrow, it's about justice.

That audio is courtesy of WMC-TV.

President Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy are scheduled to meet today to discuss the

death ceiling. The U.S. government cannot borrow any more money to pay the bills it has already

incurred.

That is, unless Congress raises the death limit.

Republicans say they won't, unless they get significant government spending cuts.

President Biden says he won't negotiate the death limit.

House Republicans are preparing to remove Minnesota Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar from

the Foreign Affairs Committee.

The House rules panel sent a resolution to the floor last night.

P.R.'s Giles Knighter reports a vote could come as soon as today.

The Rules Committee advanced the resolution after adding compromise language at WGOMAR

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