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1:00County officials argue the company's new, but chose to deceive the public about the threats from climate change. The energy giants are asking the Supreme Court to block the lawsuit because they say the federal government should be in charge of such a sweeping issue. The justices ask tough questions of both sides. They seem to be weighing a potential flood of cases in state courts against blocking cases by Boulder and other local governments. At such an early stage, Kerry Johnson and PR News. At the Ivy League Cornell University students gathered Monday for a protest against the school's response to allegations of sexual assault at a fraternity house. Athena Holloway is a public policy major and a leader of Cornell's chapter of the NAACP. She was among the speakers. Our experience is maybe different. Our story may be different, but what is left is such as one part of our community, all of us have a responsibility to respond. So let's say it went for time.

2:02One struggle, one struggle, one fight. Students are demanding an outside investigation into the university's response to a class makes gang rape allegations. They're also calling for the resignation of Cornell president Michael Kotlakov. Cornell has defended its response, which included shutting down the fraternity chapter in imposing expulsions and other sanctions against fraternity members allegedly involved. A student protest movement in France is ongoing with scatter but intense violence. Empire's Eleanor Beardsy reports more than 700 police and 200 young people have been injured. More than 6,000 people have been arrested, though most released, since last week when peaceful student protests against degraded facilities and a lack of teachers took a violent turn. The right is largely blaming the students and denouncing a lack of authority. A news crew from BFM television was trapped inside a school as young masked men set fire to it.

3:03We are under siege, says the reporter. Others say the police are too violent. In a tragic incident in the northern city of Launce, a 15-year-old lost his hand when he picked up a tear gas canister that exploded. Students are calling for a massive protest march in Paris Tuesday. Left-wing unions are calling on their members to march with the students to protect them from the police. Eleanor Beardsy in Pair News, Paris. And you're listening to NPR News. That is Monday evening, rally in Nebraska, President Trump rolled out a new tax exemption for diesel fuel, signing an executive order to ease limits on the tax-free use of red dye diesel, which is used by the agriculture industry and not subject to the same state and federal highway taxes as regular diesel. Trump was campaigning for Republican Senator Pete Ricketts who was locked in a competitive contest with independent Dan Osborne. Dennis Haster, the former house speaker who was tied to a child sex abuse scandal has died.

4:06The Illinois Republican was 84 NPR's Cluddy Gorsales reports. The coroner's office in Kendall County, Illinois, said they were notified of Haster's death Saturday evening. The coroner said the Plano, Illinois resident was pronounced deceased at his residence while in hospice care he died of natural causes. The former lawmaker was the longest serving Republican speaker of the house before leaving Congress in 2007. In 2016, his political legacy was tarnished after he admitted in court to having sexually abused teenage boys during his years as a high school teacher and wrestling coach. He was sentenced to 50 months in federal prison after making hush money payments to cover it up. Cluddy Gorsales and beer news. Televangel is Jim Baker is died. Baker's wife Lori Baker announced his death on her husband's official Instagram account. Baker was 86. His cause of death is not clear. Baker built a multi-million dollar evangelical empire around television's P.T.L. club alongside his

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