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Trump has issued an executive order that attempts to end federal funding for NPR and PBS,

accusing the organizations of political bias. NPR's Rylan Barton reports it's the latest attack on public media by the Trump administration.

Trump is ordering the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to stop sending money to NPR and PBS, and he's banning local public radio and TV stations from using taxpayer dollars to support the news organizations.

The president says federal funding should not support what he calls biased and partisan news

coverage.

CPB is the independent nonprofit that Congress funds to partially pay for public broadcasting,

and currently NPR receives about 1% of its funding directly from CPB, and PBS gets about 15 percent. Earlier this week,

Trump moved to fire three of CPB's board members. They're suing, saying they're not a federal

agency and don't serve at the pleasure of the president. Rylan Barton, NPR News. A federal judge

has ruled that President Trump acted unlawfully when he used the Alien Enemies Act to deport certain

Venezuelan migrants from South Texas. U.S. District Judge Fernando Rodriguez Jr. is a Trump appointee.

He says, although the migrants are alleged gang members and the gang's presence is harmful,

their activities do not meet the legal standard to be viewed as a predatory incursion

as it's understood by the law. The judge's decision only covers areas in the Southern District of

Texas, including Houston. In Colorado, immigration authorities are proposing what appears to be

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