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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News, I'm Dan Ronan.
Chapter 2: What are the latest updates on the Iran deal negotiations?
President Trump says a deal with Iran may be near, but some Republicans in Congress are concerned about the terms. NPR's Mara Liason reports.
President Trump posted on Truth Social that negotiations are, quote, proceeding in an orderly and constructive manner, and that, quote, the blockade will remain in full force and effect until an agreement is reached, certified, and signed. Iranian officials say the agreement would allow for more talks over the next 60 days and would not include a discussion of Iran's nuclear program.
Trump has announced impending deals with Iran before that have never materialized, and some Republicans in Congress are skeptical, saying that the deal would allow Iran to retain its nuclear ambitions, and while it may open the Strait of Hormuz for now, it would leave Iran with the power to close it again.
Chapter 3: How is the Justice Department reshaping public memory of January 6th?
Mara Liason, NPR News.
The Justice Department has removed hundreds of online records related to the January 6th insurrection from its website.
Chapter 4: What records were deleted by the Justice Department regarding January 6th?
The Trump administration calls the material political messaging. Critics argue it's an effort to reshape public memory of the Capitol attack. NPR's Winsor Johnston reports.
The deleted records include news releases detailing the criminal charges, convictions, and prison sentences tied to the January 6th attack on the U.S.
Chapter 5: What is the current status of the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo?
Capitol building. The Justice Department says the material amounted to partisan propaganda left behind by the previous administration. Critics say removing the records would erase a public accounting of the insurrection. when Trump supporters stormed the Capitol in an attempt to stop the certification of the 2020 election results.
Trump, on his first day back in office, issued sweeping pardons and commutations for more than 1,500 people charged in connection with the riot, including some convicted of assaulting police officers.
Health workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo are scrambling to contain an outbreak of the Ebola virus, which is suspected of having killed more than 100 people and risk spreading across international borders. Local officials and age groups are currently mounting a response to manage the outbreak, the first major one since the dramatic cutting of U.S.
Chapter 6: What were the highlights of the Indianapolis 500 race this year?
aid programs by the Trump administration. NPR global health correspondent Fatma Tanis has more.
This is a rare strain of the Ebola virus, and there's no vaccine for it. Health officials had been testing people for regular Ebola, and it was coming back negative. It wasn't until they sent the samples back to a lab in the capital, Kinshasa, which is about 600 miles from the outbreak zone, that they realized they were dealing with a different variant.
And it's partly because of that that experts think the disease was likely spreading undetected for a while.
Several border nations to the Congo have closed their borders. You're listening to NPR News. The 110th running of the Indianapolis 500 made history with the closest finish ever. From member station WFYI, Samantha Horton reports it ended with a last-lap shootout.
The more than three-hour race was riddled with cautions and restarts. A final restart left drivers one lap to secure the lead. Going into the final straightaway, Felix Rosenquist came from behind an inch ahead of David Malukas by just over two hundredths of a second. The photo finish was so close, some in the crowd were unsure who won.
Rosenquist says it was how he always pictured his first Indy 500 win.
It was almost like muscle memory when it happened, because I've been dreaming about that last lap move. And it's kind of weird, you never really get that last lap move in the 500, and it just played out perfectly.
It's a second win for team owners Meyers Schenck Racing. For NPR News, I'm Samantha Horton in Indianapolis.
The family of Kitty Bruce, the only child of famed comedian Lenny Bruce, announced this weekend she died May 13th. She was 70. Bruce established an archive of her father's work at Brandeis University, and she backed the successful effort to obtain a pardon. in the state of New York for his 1960s-era conviction on an obscenity charge because of words he used during a stand-up act.
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