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Congress is considering a rescissions package from the White House that would claw back more than $1 billion of public media funding. Federal funding for all of public media amounts to about $1.60 per person per year. That helps bring you the news and podcasts you rely on from NPR. Please take a stand for public media today at GoACPR.org. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston. at GoACPR.org. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston. Migrant detainees are staging protests at an immigration and customs enforcement facility in Miami. On Thursday, they lined up in the courtyard of the Chrome Detention Center and spelled out the lettersS. with their own bodies. NPR's Jasmine

Guards has been following the conditions there. This facility has had problems for years and right now we're seeing severe overcrowding. Detainees have reported illnesses, limited access to medication. One of the first tips we received about Crohm was from a woman named Maria. She asked that her last name be withheld to protect her brother, who she says has had a serious eye infection with a fever for two weeks and hasn't gotten medication. That's NPR's Jasmine Garz reporting from Miami. The Trump administration is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to step in and allow it to continue dismantling the Department of Education.

NPR's Corey Turner has more. The administration needs the Supreme Court's help after a federal judge in Massachusetts told the administration to reinstate the nearly 1,400 employees it has already put on leave on the way to firing them. The judge's concern was that the department, at roughly half its former size, was failing to perform important duties. In its request for the Supreme Court to intervene, the Trump administration argued, "...the Constitution vests the executive branch, not district courts, with the authority

to make judgments about how many employees are needed to carry out an agency's statutory functions. It's not clear how quickly the court will move or what it will decide. Corey Turner, NPR News. The European Union is joining the International Criminal Court in blasting the Trump administration for punishing judges for tribunal investigations. Terry Schultz reports legal communities around the world are criticizing the move, which could impact global justice efforts. President Trump has slapped sanctions on four judges from the ICC in retaliation for their

work on the tribunal's probes into alleged war crimes committed by U.S. personnel in Afghanistan and by Israel in the West Bank and Gaza. The judges from Benin, Peru, Slovenia, and Uganda will have any U.S.-based assets frozen. European Commission spokesperson Pala Pino says the EU remains committed to the ICC. This court holds perpetrators of the world's gravest crimes to account and gives victims a voice. It must be free to act without pressure.

In February, the Trump administration banned the chief prosecutor and other non-American employees of the court from entering the U.S. and warned of more measures to come. For NPR News, I'm Terri Schulz in Brussels. Stocks are trading higher on Wall Street at this hour. The Dow was up 447 points, the Nasdaq up 272. This is NPR News. Police in Michigan say they have one person in custody after authorities thwarted what

appears to have been a planned mass shooting at a high school graduation. The incident took place Tuesday night at the UWM Sports Complex, where the Arts and Technology Academy of Pontiac was holding its commencement. Starting this week and for the first time ever Russians are able to watch the corruption investigation videos of banned now deceased Kremlin opponent Alexei Navalny on TV. NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports it's made possible through a joint project with Paris-based press NGO Reporters Without Borders. Hello. Thank you so much for coming.

Julia Navalny, the widow of Alexei Navalny, helped launch the new channel called Russia's Future, which will be beamed in by French satellite UTELSAT. Project director Jim Filipov says Navalny used YouTube because television was always controlled by the Kremlin. For more than 20 years, the Russian public has been bombarded with anti-Western, anti-Ukrainian, anti-democratic, pro-authoritarian propaganda. Now he says the Navalny team will reach a bigger audience on TV and unlike with YouTube, the Kremlin will not be able to block the satellite. Eleanor Beardsley in Pierre News, Paris.

Officials say an Australian Navy vessel mistakenly disrupted Wi-Fi across parts of New Zealand's North and South Islands this week due to its navigation system. The incident has raised concerns about military technology interference with civilian infrastructure. I'm Windsor Johnston, NPR News in Washington.