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Chapter 1: What lawsuit has President Trump reopened against the IRS?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dan Roman. A federal judge has reopened President Trump's lawsuit against the IRS over a 2019 leak of his tax returns. The president last week dropped that suit and in favor of a settlement that, among other things, created a fund to compensate individuals he argues were wrongly targeted by a weaponized judicial system. NPR's Elena Moore reports.
Trump sued the IRS for $10 billion back in February. Then, earlier this month, after the federal judge overseeing the case questioned its merits, he dropped it.
Instead, the administration announced a settlement in which the Justice Department would start a, quote, anti-weaponization fund of nearly $1.8 billion, sparking concerns from Democratic lawmakers and others that payments could be awarded to January 6th defendants. The terms drew scrutiny from a bipartisan group of 35 former judges.
And now, in a major setback for Trump, the federal judge has reopened the case, giving Trump's attorneys until June 12th to file a written response to claims that the dismissal was, quote, premised on deception. Elena Moore, NPR News.
Chapter 2: What changes are being proposed to childhood vaccination policies?
President Trump Friday issued an executive order aimed at once again trying to revamp the number of routine childhood vaccinations. NPR's Rob Stein has the story.
The order directs the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to review the vaccines routinely recommended to protect children against diseases like measles, mumps and whooping cough. and aligned the so-called childhood vaccine schedule with a recent federal scientific assessment that found the U.S. recommends more vaccines than other peer nations.
The order comes after a federal judge blocked the administration's last attempt to reduce the number of federally recommended childhood vaccines from 17 to 11. That change was condemned by major medical groups and many leading infectious disease and public health experts. Rob Stein, NPR News.
Major stock indexes closed higher Friday, NPR's Rafael Nam reports.
Despite the economic concerns created by the war with Iran, stock indexes have been hitting records this month, with the Nasdaq up 8% in May.
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Chapter 3: How are stock market trends affected by the war with Iran?
That's because investors believe the war will end sooner rather than later. Oil prices, for example, have fallen sharply this month. But it's also that company earnings have been decent and consumer spending has held up better than expected, despite the high gas prices, in part because of tax refunds.
The issue here, though, is that even if the war ends, gas prices will take a while to return to levels from before the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran. So the inflation risks to the U.S. economy are far from over. Rafael Nam, NPR News.
Stock indexes closed higher on Wall Street, adding to the all-time highs setting a day earlier. The S&P and the Nasdaq added points.
Chapter 4: What are the current challenges in treating Ebola patients?
You're listening to NPR News. Ebola is a very deadly disease, killing about half of the people it impacts. The current outbreak in Central Africa has already killed more than 220 people. But as NPR's Jonathan Lambert reports, the high death rate depends on the kind of care the patients receive.
Early symptoms of Ebola include fever and malaise. Eventually, patients experience extreme vomiting and diarrhea, and losing all those fluids can kill them. Healthcare workers try to save patients by replacing these fluids through IV, for instance. But that can be hard in low-resource settings, says Craig Spencer, a physician at Brown University.
He treated Ebola patients in Guinea in 2014 and was hospitalized for the disease in the U.S.
In Guinea I was taking care of 30 to 40 patients at any time.
Chapter 5: What details are known about the recent deadly bus crash investigation?
In the U.S., there were probably 30 to 40 providers on call any time just to take care of me.
He says that difference in care is likely why the vast majority of Ebola patients treated in the U.S. survive, and so many in African countries die. Jonathan Lambert, NPR News.
The NTSB is now taking the lead on the investigation into a Friday morning deadly bus crash on Interstate 95 south of Washington, D.C. The crash left five people dead and at least 34 others were injured. A federal judge in Washington says President Trump's name must be removed from the Kennedy Center and the board that made the change acted illegally.
The judge, Christopher Cooper, also blocked the board from temporarily closing the Arts Center for what Trump said was a much-needed two-year renovation. The Kennedy Center now has a deadline of June the 12th to change the name. This is NBC.
Chapter 6: What legal decisions are impacting the Kennedy Center's name change?
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