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 The attorney for the family of 25-year-old Freddy Gray is speaking out about the 6.5 million dollars settlement unanimously approved by Baltimore officials today. Gray's death became a flesh point  in a growing nationwide debate over police's treatment of black suspects. KB with member station WYPR reports the settlement means there'll be no lawsuit against the city. Gray family attorney Billy Murphy says the settlement represents the whole justice, praising Baltimore mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake for taking decisive action. 'If this civil case and file ends in federal court which is our plan, it could easily have taken three years to resolve and no grieving family wants to go through that.' Negotiations over a settlement began shortly after six officers were criminally charged in Gray's death from a spinal injury he suffered while in police custody in April. The mayor and other city officers have emphasized the settlement is not a indicator of guilt work innocents in the upcoming criminal trials. From NPR news, I'm KB in Baltimore. As Europe continues a deal with an influx of migrants, many coming from the war-torn Syria, the US now says it is prepared to increase the number of people it will accept next year. To officials and * speaking on condition amenity, saying Secretary of State John Kerry told participants at a close door meeting on Capital Hill today US will boost its global quota for settling refugees. Kerry speaking after the meeting confirmed the US will take more migrants so he declined to give a specific number. President Obama travelled to Michigan today to promote his proposal for free community college. NPR's BN reports the president announced related program to provide apprenticeships. Speaking at Macone Community College outside Detroit, Obama unveiled a 175 million dollar grand program. He says it will provide apprenticeships to 34,000 students. Obama said the money would create apprenticeships in high-growth and high-tech industries, including healthcare, IT and advanced manufacturing. 'When our business is creating good jobs, and our community colleges and training programs are helping workers get the skills they need to fill those jobs, you cannot stop this. There is nothing we cannot accomplish. 'The administration is also forming a board of educators and government officials to promote its plan for free community college which has gotten a cool reception in Congress.RN,NPR news, Washington.

Defense contractor LM is wielding the job-cutting axe. The professed * base contractor saying it is eliminating around 500 positions within its information systems and global solutions division. Cuts apparently involved both voluntary and involuntary lay-offs.
On Wall Street today, stocks after moving higher turned sharply in the opposite direction. The Dow ended the session down 239 points at 16253. NASDAQ was down 52 points. S&P 500 fell 27 points.
The chamber of house community that is looking into secretly-made videos of Plant Parenthood says an ongoing * group will protect tax-payers from quote the kinds of horrors as he put it that are contained in the videos. Republican BG of Virginia made his comments as the House of *  ommunity held its first hearing on the controversial video. Its secretly * abortion opponents videos purported to show the Plant Parenthood profits illegally for providing fetus issue for medical research. Plant Parenthood is claiming the videos are heavily edited. An estimated of 14 percent of American households don't always have enough food. That's according to a new report from the US Department of Agriculture. NPR's A reports remains fairly steady even as the economy has improved over the past several years. As the congress begins the process of reauthorizing the Child Nutrition Law, Agricultural secretary says it is important to know the role federal nutrition programs play in nourishing the families who rely on them. The millions who are struggling with food insecurity are not necessarily going hungry. But the USDA says they sometimes lack the resources to eat nutritious meals.BS is CEO of the anti-hunger group' Share Our Strength.'This is a solvable problem. We have not only food in this country what the some countries of course don't, but we have food nutrition programmed. In addition to the snap rogram often referred to its food stamps, there are subsidized school lunches and breakfast. AN, NPR news.
Crude oil features prices close lower today. The price of oil was down a dollar 1 dollar and 79 cents a barrel to about 44.15 a barrel in New York.
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