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Chapter 1: What recent actions has President Trump taken regarding Iran?
Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. President Trump is pausing the U.S. effort to guide commercial vessels out of the Strait of Hormuz, saying on social media that the decision is intended to allow time for a deal to end the Iran war. But Trump said the U.S. blockade of Iranian ports will remain in place. Iran's foreign minister, meanwhile, is in China.
State media say he met today with his Chinese counterpart in Beijing. Basarachi's trip comes about a week before President Trump is scheduled to visit Beijing. Republican-controlled southern states are moving to change their congressional maps following the Supreme Court ruling that limits how the Voting Rights Act is applied.
NPR's Debbie Elliott reports on this week's special legislative session in Alabama.
An Alabama House committee advanced a bill to revert to congressional maps drawn by the legislature in 2023, maps that federal courts ruled discriminated against black voters. During debate, Democrat Napoleon Bracey questioned the bill's sponsor, Republican Representative Chris Pringle.
Do we feel that this will take away representation from black citizens of Alabama that make up almost 30 percent of the state's population?
We're not doing anything to deny anybody's right or ability to go into the polls and cast their vote for the candidate of their choosing.
Legislative leaders say it's not about race, but about the majority party reflecting the will of Alabama's conservative voters. Debbie Elliott, NPR News, Montgomery.
President Trump has won an election victory in Indiana. The majority of the GOP incumbent state senators he targeted after they opposed a redistricting plan lost their primary elections to candidates Trump supported.
In neighboring Ohio, former Senator Sherrod Brown will attempt to unseat Republican Senator John Husted and Democrat Dr. Amy Acton will face Republican Vivek Ramaswamy for Ohio governor this fall. Education Department investigating Smith College over alleged Title IX violations for admitting transgender and non-binary students. NPR's Caden Mills reports.
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Chapter 2: How are southern states responding to the Supreme Court ruling on voting rights?
Here's Empire's Maria Godoy.
The current alcohol warning label has been in place since 1988. It states that drinking poses risks during pregnancy or while driving, along with a notice that alcohol, quote, may cause health harms. But research shows people tend to tune out these warnings. In a new study, researchers tested eight revised labels that included disease advisory language with more than 1,000 U.S.
adults who had at least one drink a week. Study co-author Anna Grumman of Stanford says participants ranked all of the new warnings more effective than the current one.
And the warnings that especially resonated with consumers tended to be about cancer.
So most people weren't aware that alcohol contributes to cancer. Studies show a link to at least seven types of cancer. The more people drink, the higher the risk.
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