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What new executive order did President Trump issue on childhood vaccinations?
Live from MPR News in Washington, I'm Giles Snyder. President Trump signed another executive order Monday, this one aimed at trying to upend the way American children are vaccinated against dangerous infections.
Effective immediately, my administration is recognizing gold standard childhood vaccine recommendations for only eleven core vaccinations. Against the most serious and dangerous diseases, along with the MMR, which hopefully will be split up.
The MMR shot is a single vaccination against measles, mumps, rebella, and chickenpox.
Who is Todd Blanche and why is his appointment as Attorney General controversial?
Todd Blanche is now the eighty eighth Attorney General of the United States. MPR's Carrie Johnson reports that Blanche took his o his uh oath in the Oval Office as President Trump looked on.
Blanche started his legal career as a federal prosecutor in New York, but he came to national attention defending Donald Trump in several criminal cases after Trump finished his first term in the White House. Blanche says he loves the Justice Department.
How are Alabama’s new congressional districts affecting the upcoming primary elections?
During his swearing in ceremony, he pledged to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. The Senate narrowly confirmed Blanche. Blanche last weekend. Several lawmakers worried he'd be more loyal to Trump than the rule of law, but Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, who cast the deciding vote, said Blanche would be better able to push back on Trump if he had the backing of the full Senate. Carrie Johnson in PR News, Washington.
Some voters in Alabama will be casting ballots today for a second time in a congressional primary.
Can AI chatbots really help locate Nazi‑looted artwork?
NPR's Debbie Elliott reports a special election comes after the Supreme Court removed race as a consideration for drawing districts, but allowed for gerrymandering.
The map approved by the Republican controlled legislature creates a more difficult path to re-election for the two black Democrats in Alabama's congressional delegation. Voter Willie Dixon of Loundsboro is in a new district now and says it's confusing. Create enough chaos, people will give up and go home. Six Republicans are vying to challenge Democrat Shamari figures. State Representative Rhett. Marks has President Trump's endorsement.
Why are coal miners in Appalachia experiencing a resurgence of black‑lung disease?
We have a chance to flip a Democrat seat back to the Republicans.
He says the stakes are high with control of Congress in the balance. Debbie Elliott, NPR News.
Primary election voters will also be heading to the polls in five other states today. In South Carolina, Republicans will choose from among ten candidates vying to fill the late Senator Lindsey Graham seat. They include his sister, Darlene Graham, who was serving out the rest of his term. The primaries in Connecticut, Wisconsin, and Minnesota are being closely watched because they feature clashes between progressives and the Democratic Establishment. This is NPR News. Researchers say a new AI chat bot could make it easier for authorities to track down works of art stolen by the Nazis during World War Two. NPR's Chloe Veltman reports that roughly a fifth of the more than 600,000 stolen works have yet to be reclaimed.
The goal of Santa Clara University's AI provenance assistant is to allow users to conduct research across many disparate databases around the world that contain records about art stolen by Nazis. Business School Professor Michael Santoro helped develop it.
We are applying AI tools to make it easier to make the kinds of connections that seasoned researchers would have to spend a long time having to do manually.
But the chatbot currently only scrapes records from a single database, and some researchers in the field of Nazi-looted arts say they are skeptical about its potential expansion because many archives remain undigitized and are subject to privacy laws.
The good old boy. Never mean it no harm.
Ben Jones played cooter for all seven seasons of the Dukes of Hazard from nineteen seventy-nine to nineteen eighty-five. Afterward he turned to politics. Jones served two terms as a Democratic congressman representing a Georgia district near Atlanta. Jones's wife said on social media that he suffered a heart attack Sunday at their home in Washington, Virginia.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What new executive order did President Trump issue on childhood vaccinations?
0:00–0:45
2
Who is Todd Blanche and why is his appointment as Attorney General controversial?
0:45–1:10
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How are Alabama’s new congressional districts affecting the upcoming primary elections?
1:10–1:43
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Can AI chatbots really help locate Nazi‑looted artwork?
1:43–2:21
5
Why are coal miners in Appalachia experiencing a resurgence of black‑lung disease?
2:21–5:02