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What is the Senate Finance Committee questioning about Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Shea Stevens. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was grilled by members of the Senate Finance Committee Thursday amid calls for his resignation. Dr. Deborah Howery is one of four top officials who quit the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention after Kennedy fired the agency's director. She says she was struck by Kennedy's lack of knowledge about COVID-19 deaths in the U.S.,
A few weeks ago, I was more on the fence and wanted to give him a chance. But after hearing him today where he didn't know COVID data, he was talking about firing all the CDC people who do work on chronic disease. And he didn't acknowledge the trauma the staff have gone through after the shooting.
How is the Trump administration trying to fire a Federal Trade Commission commissioner?
I do think he should resign if he cannot follow his own principles of gold standard science, which he has not upheld.
Howie says she offered to brief Kennedy multiple times, but that he never responded. The Trump administration is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to allow the president to fire a member of the Federal Trade Commission. Lower courts have blocked Trump's attempt to replace FTC Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter. The Justice Department argues that the FTC and other executive agencies fall under the authority of the president. In Illinois, officials say they still don't know when federal agents and National Guard troops will be deployed to Chicago. But as Mawa Iqbal from member station WBEZ reports, Illinois' governor is preparing a response.
Why are Illinois officials uncertain about federal and National Guard deployment to Chicago?
Governor J.B. Pritzker is vowing to sue President Trump as soon as the National Guard or other military forces enter the city. Pritzker says he can't enact any state laws that would override Trump's plans, but he says the courts will be on his side.
That's going to be our first line of defense, is getting a court to issue a TRO or other injunction against that activity.
Pritzker says he believes Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, agents will likely hit the streets of Chicago by this weekend. Meanwhile, organizers of a popular two-day celebration of Mexican Independence Day are postponing the festival to November. For NPR News, I'm Mawa Iqbal in Springfield, Illinois.
Ukraine has come up with a proposal for protecting its skies.
What proposals did President Zelensky discuss with President Trump to protect Ukrainian skies?
President Volodymyr Zelensky and European leaders spoke with President Trump after a meeting on securing a post-war Ukraine. NPR's Polina Litvenova has more.
President Zelensky wrote on X that the main topic of his conversation with President Trump was how to push the situation toward real peace. Protection of Ukrainian skies, in Zelensky's opinion, is one of the key priorities, as are security guarantees. This summit of the Coalition of the Willing followed the meeting of European leaders, Ukraine's President and President Trump in the White House in mid-August. Then Zelensky agreed to meet with Russian leader Vladimir Putin for direct talks. But it never happened. Putin suggested Zelensky come to Moscow for the negotiations, but so far the Ukrainian leader has declined.
Who is being tapped for a Federal Reserve board seat and why might they leave the White House?
This is
NPR. The chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisors says he will keep that post if confirmed to a seat on the Federal Reserve Board. President Trump has tapped Stephen Myron to fill an unexpired board seat. Myron says the only way he would give up his White House job is if he's nominated for a longer term at the Fed. Solar flares may be more than six times hotter than scientists previously thought. NPR's Mel Greenfield-Boyce has details on a new analysis of the phenomena.
Solar flares are bright bursts of light on the sun that happen when magnetic energy gets released and dumped into ions and electrons. Alexander Russell is with the University of St.
How recent research changes our understanding of solar flare temperatures and their impact?
Andrews. He says in the past, telescopes have measured the temperature of just the electrons.
And we've kind of just assumed, well, the ion temperature would be the same as the electron temperature.
But new research suggests that ions get heated up a lot more strongly. And when that's taken into account, their calculations in astrophysical journal letters show that solar flares could be as hot as 180 million degrees Fahrenheit.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the Senate Finance Committee questioning about Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.?
0:01–0:43
2
How is the Trump administration trying to fire a Federal Trade Commission commissioner?
0:43–1:27
3
Why are Illinois officials uncertain about federal and National Guard deployment to Chicago?
1:27–2:08
4
What proposals did President Zelensky discuss with President Trump to protect Ukrainian skies?
2:08–2:58
5
Who is being tapped for a Federal Reserve board seat and why might they leave the White House?
2:58–3:40
6
How recent research changes our understanding of solar flare temperatures and their impact?
3:40–4:39