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Chapter 1: What recent actions has the U.S. taken regarding Iran, Venezuela, and Cuba?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. Iran's U.N. ambassador says U.S. actions in Iran, Venezuela and Cuba reflect a pattern of coercion, intimidation and interference that violates the U.N. charter, threatens the country's sovereignty and independence and endangers international peace. The comments come as the U.S.
continues to strike Iran, and President Trump says he's negotiating a deal to extend the current ceasefire. Amir Saeed Irvani told the U.N. Security Council Iran has a right to respond to the U.S. and Israeli attacks. and closed the Strait of Hormuz.
The Justice Department has opened an investigation into the writer E. Jean Carroll over alleged perjury tied to her civil lawsuits against President Trump. This is the latest Justice Department probe to target a perceived enemy of the president. NPR's Ryan Lucas has more.
The investigation into E. Jean Carroll is being handled by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Chicago. That's according to a person familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity. The investigation is examining whether Carroll committed perjury in a deposition tied to civil lawsuits she brought against Trump.
Carroll won a $5 million civil judgment against Trump for sexually abusing her decades ago and another $83 million judgment against him in a defamation suit. The Justice Department did not respond to a request for comment. The investigation is the latest launched by the Trump DOJ against the president's critics or perceived political adversaries. Ryan Lucas, NPR News, Washington.
Treasury Secretary Scott Besson says his agency has a design for a $250 bill featuring the visage of President Trump US law does not allow a living person to appear on currency. A Republican-sponsored bill proposed in Congress would provide an exemption for Trump. Inflation is moving in the wrong direction. NPR's Scott Horsley reports on the Commerce Department's latest price data.
Consumer prices in April were up 3.8 percent from a year ago, according to the Commerce Department's inflation yardstick, which is closely watched by the Federal Reserve. That's a bigger annual increase than the previous month. Prices rose four-tenths of a percent between March and April, driven in part by higher gasoline prices sparked by the war with Iran.
Stripping out volatile energy and food prices, so-called core inflation was 3.3 percent for the 12 months ending in April. A separate report from the Commerce Department shows the U.S. economy grew a little more slowly in the first three months of the year than initially reported. GDP grew at an annual pace of 1.6 percent during the quarter. down from an earlier tally of 2%.
Scott Horsley, NPR News, Washington.
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Chapter 2: What is the significance of the investigation into E. Jean Carroll?
New research suggests a first of its kind drug for hepatitis B may let some patients stop treatment without showing signs of the dangerous liver virus. Chronic hepatitis B is hard to treat and the virus can hide out in the body, making a cure elusive.
Researchers reported that new studies about one in five patients given the experimental drug for six months saw their virus reduced to levels low enough that the immune system could keep it in check. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. France's lower house has voted finally to scrub a foundational slavery-era edict from French law.
The National Assembly voted 254-0 to overturn Code Noir, or Black Code. It now goes to the Senate. King Louis XIV signed it at Versailles Palace in 1685 to set the rules for slavery across France's colonial empire. The code quietly remained on the books even after it lost any authority when France abolished slavery in 1848.
Health workers are fighting to contain an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where more than 240 people are suspected to have died of the disease. Emmett Livingstone reports the response is facing a series of complications.
On the ground in Mongwalu, the gold mining town in eastern Congo at the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak, doctors say they're having a hard time. Some people think the disease is fake, and the town's hospital was attacked several times last week. This is making contact tracing, which is a crucial part of controlling Ebola's spread, extremely difficult.
Complicating response efforts further is insecurity. Militia groups plague much of a Turi province where there are the most cases. The WHO's director-general describes the situation as a quote, "...catastrophic collision of disease and conflict."
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