Jane Araf
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first heard Nov 2024
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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. The European Union says it's prepared to impose counter-tariff plans now that President Trump doubled his tariffs on steel and aluminum imports to 50 percent. An EU spokesperson says they had paused their tariffs in hopes of reaching an agreement.
Elon Musk stepped down from the federal government yesterday, and some people, including Republicans, aren't sad to see him go. NPR's Maria Aspin spoke with Senator Mike Rounds of South Dakota.
The United Nations says Israel banned aid to Gaza from Jordan and Egypt. The move leaves hundreds of millions of dollars of food and medicine intended for Gaza stuck in warehouses and on trucks. And here's Jane Araf has more from Amman.
This UN warehouse on the edge of Amman is piled high with boxes of food, hygiene kits, and medical supplies. $24 million worth. It's been here for months. And now... We're looking at...
That's Jonathan Fowler with the UN's Palestinian Refugee Agency. Among the food is 200,000 tons of flour at risk of being thrown out. Israel has started a new mechanism to get food into Gaza, but it can only come from Israel, says the UN in Gaza. The Israeli military declined to comment on the change. Jane Araf, NPR News, Amman. You're listening to NPR News.
Pharmaceutical company Moderna says the Food and Drug Administration has approved its new COVID booster vaccine, although the agency did put restrictions on who can get it. This new booster is a lower-dose version that's a step toward next-generation coronavirus vaccines. Moderna says it expects to offer both the new vaccine and its existing COVID-19 shot this fall.
The FDA approved the new vaccine for adults 65 and older and also for people aged 12 to 64 who are at higher risk from the coronavirus. That's the same limit that the FDA set in licensing another vaccine option from Novavax. When people get a scratch or an infection, the body responds better if it happens during the day. NPR's Burleigh McCoy reports on how the immune system tells time.
Sanctions are inflicting harm, but this harm is not critical for macroeconomic stability of Russia. And actually, further escalation of sanctions would hardly be critical as well.
There seems to be a different tone of emphasis, I think, with Mark Carney as prime minister now. Obviously, Mr. Trump's still talking about the 51st state stuff, but he's not called him Governor Carney. You know, he's called him a very nice man. And I think Mr. Carney certainly looks like kind of a nerdy central bank kind of guy.
And I think for Mr. Trump, who obviously likes kind of central casting figures, you know, I think Mr. Carney looks that part.
Yeah, well, you're right, Ayesha. The First Amendment is enshrined in the Constitution. But throughout U.S. history, there have been moments in which that right to free speech has really been threatened. People talk about the Red Scare, the McCarthy era, even John Adams in 1798 when he passed laws that he then used. to prosecute journalists and dissidents who criticized him.
Immigration, scientific research, education, the role of the press. And so we just wanted to get a sense of who was feeling silenced and why and who was feeling really emboldened and empowered in this moment. And so we put a call out to our listeners and we got responses.
And when we would reach back out to many of the people, what we noticed was a lot of them seemed really nervous to talk with us. Would you be comfortable with us using your full name?
And these are teachers, researchers, pastors, you know, regular Americans who are in our communities. And that was really, at least for me, really surprising to hear in the U.S.,
Yeah. I mean, the first thing we did was reach out to two First Amendment legal scholars who really both are seen as advocates for that amendment and for free speech, but they come from different perspectives. One is Lee Bollinger, and he's the former president of Columbia University, and we all know what's happening with Columbia University right now. They've had their funding threatened.
They've made major overhauls of their security and protester rules to try to comply with the Trump administration's guidance to get that funding back. And they also agreed to the Trump administration's demand that they appoint a provost to provide oversight now over departments that teach about the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa. By the way, none of those areas of study are
are the ones that were getting the federal funding. And Bollinger is seen as one of the foremost scholars on the First Amendment and free speech in this country.
And then we also reached out to Jonathan Turley. He's another very respected legal scholar on the First Amendment. He's often on Fox News as a commentator. And he recently wrote a book called the indispensable right, free speech in an age of rage.
And they really had... different perspectives on when they have felt that speech is threatened in this modern time. So in Bollinger's view, the danger is clearly right now.
He talked about how there's a moment like every 20, 30 years where the First Amendment free speech is really threatened. And he says the U.S. is going in that direction now.
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