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Chapter 1: What was the push for meat consumption in the 1950s?
Starting in the 1950s, there was a push to get meat onto Americans' plates at every meal.
So you would have breakfast with maybe perhaps sausage offered. You'd have lunch where it would be deli meat sandwiches. And you'd have dinner that would center over a large cut of meat.
The hidden forces behind our everyday decisions. That's on the TED Radio Hour from NPR.
Chapter 2: What are the results of the NPR-PBS News Marist poll on President Trump's first 100 days?
Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. A new NPR-PBS News Marist poll is taking the measure of President Trump's first 100 days in office. NPR's Domenico Montanaro says what many Americans are not impressed.
More than 1,400 people were reached by telephone, online, or by text, and they were asked to grade Trump's first 100 days in office. The top answer was an F. 45% of respondents gave Trump the failing mark. About half that, 23%, gave him an A.
Chapter 3: How did different political groups rate President Trump's performance?
80% of Democrats and 49% of independents gave Trump an F, 54% of Republicans, meanwhile, gave him an A. Trump has just a 42% approval rating in the poll overall, the second worst score for a president's first 100 days in 80 years of polling, the lowest Trump in 2017 when he was just a point lower. The survey has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.3 percentage points.
Domenico Montanaro, NPR News, Washington.
Chapter 4: What legal action is the Corporation for Public Broadcasting taking against President Trump?
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is suing President Trump after he opened up a new front in his assault on public media and sought to remove three of the CPB's five board members. In this morning's filing, the CPB points to federal law and a Supreme Court ruling in arguing Trump is overstepping his authority.
NPR has learned that two employees of the government cost-cutting entity Doge have been given accounts on classified networks used to send nuclear secrets. Here's NPR's Jeff Brumfield.
Chapter 5: What is the controversy involving Doge employees and nuclear secrets access?
Two sources told NPR that the Doge employees had appeared in a user directory for the classified networks. Their names are Adam Ramada and Luke Ferritore. Ramada is a Miami-based venture capitalist. Faridor is a 23-year-old former intern at SpaceX. Neither seems to have much experience with either nuclear weapons or classified information.
The networks are used at the Department of Energy to transfer restricted data about nuclear weapons designs and materials. It's unclear why Ramada and Faridor would need the access, though Doge has been reviewing budgets and contracts across governments. An Energy Department spokesperson acknowledged the accounts were created, but said they were never used to access the networks.
Jeff Brumfield, NPR News.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has canceled a Pentagon program called Women, Peace and Security, a program that began under the first Trump administration. More from NPR's Quill Lawrence.
Hexeth posted on X that he proudly ended the Women, Peace and Security program, calling it a woke, divisive, social justice Biden initiative that he claims troops hate. But the program, which focused on involving women to prevent and resolve conflicts abroad, was passed under the first Trump administration by a bipartisan majority in Congress.
The Trump campaign even touted the program during election season to back up the claim that Trump did more for women than any president in history. Secretary Hegseth has been under fire since sharing sensitive military plans in insecure group chats. President Trump has said he thinks Hegseth will, quote, get it together. Quill Lawrence, NPR News.
This is NPR. Illinois State Police say three young children and a teenager were killed and six others were injured when a car crashed through the site of an after-school camp yesterday in Chatham. But investigators say the incident does not appear to be a targeted attack.
Nova Nordisk, maker of the weight loss drug Wagovi, is now partnering with telehealth companies to make it available online, including on HIMSS. Here's NPR's Sydney Lubkin.
HIMSS says patients without insurance coverage for Wagovi can bundle the drug dispensed in an injector pen and a HIMSS membership for about $600 a month. That's lower than Wagovi's regular price of more than $1,000 a month. HIMSS raised eyebrows earlier this year with a Super Bowl ad that criticized the weight loss industry, including drug makers.
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