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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. The U.S. Supreme Court finds Louisiana's congressional maps amount to an, quote, unconstitutional racial gerrymander. The justices voted 6-3 to strike down a map that created a second-majority black congressional district in the state. The high court's decision was along partisan lines.
Chapter 2: What was the Supreme Court's decision regarding Louisiana's congressional maps?
The Iran war is costing U.S. taxpayers $25 billion, according to the Pentagon's chief financial official. On Capitol Hill today, acting Comptroller Jay Hurst offered the first public cost estimate for the conflict. Meanwhile, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dan Kaner, also agreed.
appearing before lawmakers to talk about a Pentagon budget request for $1.45 trillion. Hegseth sparred with Democratic Representative Adam Smith, a ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee.
They had not given up their nuclear ambitions and they had a conventional shield of thousands. So Operation Midnight Hammer accomplished nothing of substance. It left us at exactly the same place we were before.
President Trump's pick to lead the Federal Reserve has won the backing of a key Senate committee. NPR's Scott Horsley reports Kevin Warsh is on track to take the helm of the central bank next month.
The Senate Banking Committee voted along party lines to endorse Kevin Warsh to be the next chairman of the Federal Reserve. That sets the stage for a confirmation vote by the full Senate. Republican Senator Tom Tillis dropped his opposition to the vote after the Justice Department agreed to end its criminal investigation of the Fed.
which was widely seen as part of a pressure campaign by the White House for lower interest rates. The top Democrat on the committee, Elizabeth Warren, was not convinced.
No one is fooled. Trump is still going after control of the Fed, and he is keeping the threat of bogus criminal charges alive until he gets what he wants.
Trump's been demanding lower interest rates, but the central bank's expected to hold its benchmark rate steady today. Scott Horsley, NPR News, Washington.
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Chapter 3: How much is the Iran war costing U.S. taxpayers?
Former FBI Director James Comey is expected to turn himself into authorities in Virginia day after grand jury indicted him for allegedly threatening the president. NPR's Carrie Johnson is more.
Comey says he's innocent and he has confidence in the judicial system. He's facing two felony charges related to an image he posted to Instagram last year while walking along the beach. The photo showed shells in the shape of the number 8647. 86 is slang for get rid of and 47 is, by some accounts, a reference to Donald Trump as the 47th president.
Comey quickly deleted the post and apologized, saying he didn't know it could be connected to violence. But the Justice Department sought to indict him anyway. The president's been calling on his DOJ to prosecute Comey and other prominent critics. A judge dismissed a separate case against the former FBI director last year. Carrie Johnson, NPR News, Washington. It's NPR.
King Charles III and Queen Camilla's latest stop of a state visit is New York for a wreath-length ceremony at the 9-11 memorial. The royal couple meets with Mayor Zoran Mamdani and other dignitaries. King Charles' visit has been described as a tribute to America's 250th anniversary. But he was also on a diplomatic mission to help repair U.K. and U.S.
relations fractured over their disagreements on tariffs, Ukraine's defense against Russia, NATO, and the Iran war. A survey from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows many adults in the United States are sleeping less than seven hours each night. NPR's Ping Wang reports on how that contributes to health problems.
The survey finds that one in three U.S. adults is not sleeping enough. That leaves some feeling lethargic, prone to accidents, and also facing increased risks of diabetes, depression, and stroke. Dr. James Rowley is a sleep specialist at Rush University in Chicago who's not affiliated with the report.
So many patients tell me how they go to bed with their cell phone or their laptop, their tablet.
Rowley says much of the time spent doom scrolling could be better spent sleeping when the brain repairs itself.
But a lot of people don't have insomnia issues and could go to bed earlier if they chose to do so.
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