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What is President Trump’s latest demand from Iran and how might it affect U.S.‑Iran relations?
Live from NPR News in New York City, I'm Duah Le Sai Kautao. President Trump says Iran should pay the US reparations for five decades of pain and suffering. including, quote, all of the people that they have killed and gravely wounded with their roadside bombs and many conflicts. His threat comes after Iran demanded the US end its blockade of Iranian imports, live sanctions, release frozen assets held by the Islamic Republic, and compensate for war damage, in Pierce Franco Ordonia's reports.
It was just a week ago that Trump was touting great progress, as he has before, and even boasted that he would soon be announcing an agreement to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. That's obviously not happening now. Instead, he's you know, he's signaling a change in tactics, saying he's gonna be low-king negotiations, calling it a chess match, and saying he's gonna focus on economic pressure, and also getting into this public spat about compensation. It all just does not project a terrible amount of confidence that a deal is around the corner.
And Pierre's Franco Ordonia's reporting some voters in Alabama will be casting ballots today for a second time in a congressional primary.
How are new congressional district maps in Alabama reshaping the upcoming primary races?
And Pierre's Debbie Elliott reports the 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 reelection 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. He says the stakes are high with control of Congress in the balance. Debbie Elliott, NPR News.
Why are recent food‑borne illness outbreaks, like cyclosporiasis and salmonella, raising concerns for public health officials?
It's already been a record year for cyclosporiasis outbreaks. Now the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warns jalapenos grown in Mexico are sickening more than three hundred people in twenty-seven states with salmonella, and Pierzuki Neguchi reports.
Foodborne outbreaks are often under reported and challenging for state health departments to manage. But Dr. Ann Zink, former chief medical officer for the state of Alaska, Says cuts to federal funding of key health agencies hurt operations this year.
Epidemiologists and team reach out to CDC regularly to understand what they're seeing in a larger context nationally, which is really important. And when those personnel are gone, the positions are unfilled, it really uh slows not only the reporting but the disease investigation.
The number of cyclosporiasis cases reported by Missouri shot up to nearly sixteen hundred recently.
What challenges are health agencies facing after federal funding cuts, according to former Alaska CMO Ann Zink?
Michigan, the epicenter, has over twelve thousand cases. Yukinaguchi NPR News.
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NPR from New York City. Ukraine has struck another oil refinery in Russia's Far East using a drone attack, apparently targeting the retailer Wildberries. Meanwhile, Russia attacked Ukraine's Zaporizhia region, where the governor there said at least six people have died. Nearly thirty years after the Tupac Shakur's death, a trial started Monday for the man accused of orchestrating his killing, Steve Futterman reports from Las Vegas.
Dozens of potential jurors jammed the courtroom as lawyers began the process of selecting a jury. Dwayne Davis, a former gang leader, is accused of putting together a plot to go after Shakur after Shakur assaulted another gang member. Some of Shakur's relatives were at the courthouse, including his cousin William Lassain.
What new evidence and legal arguments are emerging in the 30‑year‑old Tupac Shakur murder trial?
He is reluctant to call this justice being served.
We're here 30 years later, so justice is a little bit weakened. I think now I will prefer to call it accountability, that accountability may be served.
The prosecution case will center on Dwayne Davis' own words from his memoir and interviews where he says he supplied the gun that was used. The defense claims those were embellishments and fabrications.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is President Trump’s latest demand from Iran and how might it affect U.S.‑Iran relations?
0:01–1:10
2
How are new congressional district maps in Alabama reshaping the upcoming primary races?
1:10–1:58
3
Why are recent food‑borne illness outbreaks, like cyclosporiasis and salmonella, raising concerns for public health officials?
1:58–2:50
4
What challenges are health agencies facing after federal funding cuts, according to former Alaska CMO Ann Zink?
2:50–3:44
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What new evidence and legal arguments are emerging in the 30‑year‑old Tupac Shakur murder trial?
3:44–4:32
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How are unsafe mining practices in South Africa and rising black‑lung disease in Appalachia impacting workers’ health?
4:32–5:02