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Chapter 1: What recent developments occurred between Israel and Iran?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. Israel and Iran backed away from further strikes today after they traded fire for the first time since the U.S. agreed to a ceasefire with Iran two months ago. The renewed hostilities raised concerns that the Middle East could plunge back into a full-scale war.
During a tele-rally supporting Republican Senator Lindsey Graham tonight, Trump predicted the war would end soon.
I think we are winning that battle, but you're really going to win it over the next two weeks. when we declare total victory. It'll be a total victory. It'll happen very soon. And oil prices will come tumbling down.
Industry experts say even if the war ends, it could take a while for gas prices to return to what is considered normal. A federal judge has ruled that President Trump's $100,000 fee for highly skilled worker visas is unlawful. Twenty states sued over the policy, saying it would impede their ability to hire teachers and medical workers.
The judge ruled the change intruded on Congress's powers and that the administration had no authority to impose the fee. The Trump administration is ordering the Census Bureau to come up with new plans for protecting people's privacy when it produces statistics based on people's personal information.
As NPR's Hansi Lewong reports, the new policy could limit the data released from the census and other federal government surveys.
Federal law requires the Census Bureau to keep people anonymous in its statistics. For decades, one of the main ways the Bureau has done that is by adding what's known as statistical noise to make certain data fuzzy, especially data about small geographic areas and minority populations who could be easy to identify.
But the Trump administration is now banning this approach to data privacy protection. Spokespeople for the Commerce Department, which oversees the bureau, did not immediately respond to NPR's questions about why the ban was issued. For the 2020 census, no statistical noise was added to the state-level population numbers used to redistribute congressional seats and electoral college votes.
But last year, the bureau said it was planning to keep using this privacy protection for neighborhood-level results from the 2030 census. Anzila Wong, NPR News.
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Chapter 2: How is the U.S. government addressing visa fees for skilled workers?
The pins included the number 168, referring to the people killed, most of them children, when a likely U.S. strike hit the school in southern Iran. The head of the World Health Organization is calling on Uganda to reconsider its decision to close its border with the Democratic Republic of Congo as both countries deal with an Ebola outbreak. Michael Kuloki has more.
Tedros Ghebreyesus, the WHO director general, said Uganda, which temporarily shut its border with Congo last month, should rethink the move. Ugandan authorities had previously said the action was taken to limit the spread of Ebola. However, the WHO chief warned that blanket travel restrictions are not effective.
Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni called for regional cross-border collaboration in tackling the disease. The White House had said last month, that the U.S. was setting up a facility in Kenya to quarantine Americans exposed to Ebola, which a Kenyan court later temporarily suspended. For NPR News, I'm Michael Kaloki in Nairobi.
Researchers at 23andMe say they have identified the lost remains of Maryland's second colonial governor, Thomas Green, who died in 1651. According to Maryland Matters, the discovery came after dozens of bodies were discovered in a graveyard in St. Mary's County, Maryland. Researchers compared DNA with those bodies with those of more than 11.5 million people in 23andMe's genetic database.
It's the first time ancient DNA has been used in this way to identify people in a situation where researchers had no idea who they might be. This is NPR News.
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Chapter 3: What changes are being made to Census Bureau privacy policies?
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