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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corva Coleman.
Chapter 2: What recent legislation did Congress pass regarding the Department of Homeland Security?
Congress has passed legislation funding most of the Department of Homeland Security. The agency's been without full funding since mid-February. President Trump has signed this into law. NPR's Claudia Grisales says DHS had been shuffling money around to pay some of its employees.
The Senate passed a plan five weeks ago to fund the agency, except for some immigration enforcement divisions that could not get through the House. So the White House redirected government funds to pay DHS workers despite questions over the legality of that decision. And now the agency was about to run out of that new money. So the House had to act.
Chapter 3: How does the War Powers Resolution affect President Trump's actions with Iran?
NPR's Claudia Grisales reporting. The immigration enforcement operations within DHS were not funded in this bill, but those employees are still getting paid. They were provided for last year when Congress passed the one big, beautiful bill that President Trump backed.
Chapter 4: What are the latest trends in gas prices across the United States?
It's been 60 days since President Trump began attacking Iran. The War Powers Resolution of 1973 mandates a president must get authorization from Congress to continue a war after 60 days. But in Senate testimony yesterday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth waived that off. He claims the current ceasefire with Iran has paused the legal obligation.
The motoring club AAA says gas prices have jumped again. Overnight, the average national cost of a gallon of regular increased 9 cents. They're up 33 cents a gallon in a week. Motorist Angeles Scafuso crossed from Illinois into Indiana.
Chapter 5: What changes are being made to the 2026 Census testing process?
To find cheaper gas, it wasn't.
I actually was shocked as I was driving down this road here. This is usually a good place to fill up, and it's obviously shot up significantly.
The average price for a gallon of regular in Indiana is now $4.80. The Census Bureau starts a field test for the 2030 census today in parts of Alabama and South Carolina. NPR's Hansi Lo Wong reports this test is expected to involve letter carriers from the U.S. Postal Service.
The Census Bureau is asking households in Huntsville, Alabama and Spartanburg, South Carolina to fill out an online survey. Households that don't may be interviewed in person starting in June by census workers or letter carriers.
As part of a Trump administration overhaul, the 2026 census test that's drawn skepticism from census watchers who cite a past government accountability office study that found that using postal workers to conduct interviews would not be cost effective.
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Chapter 6: How does postpartum depression vary across different regions?
This test census asks people about their U.S. citizenship status. Research shows that's likely to hurt the accuracy of numbers used to redistribute local representation and federal funding. In a court filing, the Trump administration says it may soon formally propose to alter census numbers that the 14th Amendment says must include the, quote, whole number of persons in each state.
Anzela Wong, NPR News.
You're listening to NPR News from Washington. President Trump has dropped his nominee for Surgeon General, Dr. Casey Means, whose nomination was stalled in the Senate. He's now tapped Dr. Nicole Sapphire, a radiologist and wellness influencer. About 1 in 15 women will experience major depressive disorder in the year after giving birth.
NPR's Gabriela Emanuel reports new data suggests that number varies greatly from country to country.
Chapter 7: What happened to the Academy Award for Best Documentary winner's Oscar?
The condition involves persistent sadness and difficulty functioning day to day. The study, published in the medical journal The Lancet Psychiatry, found that rates of major depressive disorder were the highest in southern sub-Saharan Africa, at around 15% of postpartum women, and the lowest in high-income parts of Asia Pacific, dipping to just about 3%.
Women in North America experienced rates between 4 and 5 percent. Researchers say getting a global picture is a key step in targeting prevention screening and treatment programs. Gabriela Emanuel, NPR News.
The winner of this year's Academy Award for Best Documentary says his Oscar statuette is missing. Russian schoolteacher Pavel Talankin's film, Mr. Nobody Against Putin, is a record of how his students were indoctrinated to support Russia's war against Ukraine.
Talankin tells Deadline News when he went to fly out of New York this week, a TSA agent and an official from Lufthansa Airlines said he could not bring the Oscar on board. It was put in checked luggage and described as a potential weapon. When Tulankan got to Germany, it was gone. Lufthansa says it's looking for it. This is NPR.
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