NPR News: 05-12-2026 4AM EDT
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. With a deadlock over the straightforward moves driving prices at the pump, President Trump says he will move to suspend the federal tax on gasoline. But he can't act on his own. He would need congressional approval.
What is President Trump's plan regarding the federal gas tax?
Lawmakers from both parties have pushed for such a move. Republican Senator John Hoeven of North Dakota.
Yeah, you know, I would, and I think others would, but what's going to make the real difference is what I just described. Again, getting control of the Strait of Hormuz.
The standoff over moving ship traffic through the Strait does not seem likely to end soon, though. Trump told reporters at the White House Monday that the U.S.-Iran ceasefire is on life support after rejecting Iran's latest proposal to end the war. The Iran war will likely loom over Trump's summit this week with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Trump is to leave for Beijing later today. Tennessee is fielding multiple legal challenges over its new congressional maps. Lawmakers there were the first to redistrict after the Supreme Court's ruling last month that weakened the landmark Voting Rights Act. Mariana Bacchial of member station WPLN reports.
Tennessee's ACLU, NAACP, and Democratic Party have all filed separate lawsuits challenging different aspects of the map. But they all have the same goal, to block it from going into effect before the midterms. The allegations range from racial discrimination to voter disenfranchisement to an overreach of state powers. So far, Tennessee's attorney general has argued that the NAACP doesn't have standing to challenge the maps. A previous NAACP challenge to the state's 2022 maps was rejected by the courts because the change would have been too close to an election. Now the NAACP is hoping that logic extends to the state's new maps. For NPR News, I'm Mariana Bacayau in Nashville.
A family of one of the two people killed in a shooting at Florida State University last year is suing OpenAI. The alleged shooter consulted with ChatGPT before the attack, as Douglas Soule of member station WUSF reports.
Thiru Chaba was a 45-year-old father of two when he was shot and killed. His family's legal team says there weren't enough safeguards on Chad GPT when the accused gunman asked it questions, like how many victims it would take to make the news and the busiest time at the student union building where the shooting took place. Attorney Robbie Bell calls it a landmark case.
Our job as lawyers for the Chaba family and for the public is to make a wrong or right and to try to prevent this from ever happening again.
Lawyers also allege the chatbot inflamed and encouraged the accused shooter's delusions leading up to the violence. OpenAI says ChatGPT is not responsible for the shooting and that it provided factual responses with information that can be found across the internet. For NPR News, I'm Douglas Soule in Tallahassee. This is NPR.
President Trump has nominated Cameron Hamilton to lead the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Hamilton is a former Navy SEAL who Trump fired last year when he was acting director. Hamilton was ousted after he appeared to break with Trump on the agency's future. The man accused of attempting to assassinate President Trump at the White House Correspondents' Dinner last month has pleaded not guilty.
How is the U.S.-Iran ceasefire affecting international relations?
31-year-old Cole Allen appeared in federal court for his arraignment Monday. Meanwhile, NPR's Odette Youssef says a survey shows many are skeptical that this and two other assassination attempts were all real.
The NewsGuard YouGov poll surveyed 1,000 Americans. It asked about the incident at the dinner as well as incidents at a Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania and on golf grounds in West Palm Beach, Florida. 30% of respondents thought at least one of those was staged. Sophia Rubinson is with NewsGuard. She says that previously, uptake of conspiracy theories has been a feature of the political right in the U.S.
But this is really one area where the political left seems to be very susceptible for, you know, believing this types of baseless narratives.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:01–0:17
2
What is President Trump's plan regarding the federal gas tax?
0:17–3:23
3
How is the U.S.-Iran ceasefire affecting international relations?
3:23–4:59
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What legal challenges are arising from Tennessee's new congressional maps?
4:59–5:02