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Why is President Trump proposing to host the G20 summit at his Miami resort?

Janine Herbst 0:00
Live from NPR News, I'm Janine Herbst. President Trump is planning to host next year's G twenty summit of world leaders at a resort he owns in Miami. As NPR's Tamar Keith reports, when he tried to do something like this in his first term, it generated so much controversy, Trump changed
Tamara Keith 0:20
course. Trump says everyone wants the G twenty summit to be held at his Florida golf resort because the location is perfect.
Unknown 0:28
They'll have their own buildings, it it'll be incredible for them. And being Like ten minutes, less than ten minutes from the airport. And it's a big airport international. All of the plans will be able to land go right into there.
Tamara Keith 0:40
Trump insists he will make no money on it.

What is the HHS response to claims that Tylenol use in pregnancy is linked to autism?

Tamara Keith 0:43
During his first term, even Republicans push back on the prospect that Trump could personally profit as countries paid for lodging at an international summit. As for this year's G twenty in South Africa, Trump confirmed he isn't going and ascending the vice president in his place. Tamara Keith, NPR News, the White House.
Janine Herbst 1:04
The Department of Health and Human Services is responding to news that it plans to cite use of Tylenol by pregnant women as having links to autism, even though scientific research doesn't back up that claim. And Pierre Zuki Naguchi
Yuki Noguchi 1:19
has more. An upcoming report will suggest acetaminefin, known to many as Tylenol, is linked to autism and that folic acid, a vitamin, could prevent it, according to a story in the Wall Street Journal. When asked about the upcoming report, a spokesperson for the HHS said, quote, until we release the final report, any claims about its contents are nothing more than speculation, end quote. Robert F. Kennedy Junior, the controversial head of HHS, has repeated falsehoods about the causes of autism. The Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine says acetominophin is safe for pregnant women and that untreated pain and fever in pregnancy can be dangerous.

Why is unemployment rising sharply among Black workers, especially Black women?

Yuki Noguchi 1:57
Yukinaguchi NPR
Janine Herbst 1:59
News. Unemployment is rising among black workers in America, especially black women. And Pierce Andrea Shu reports that's according to the latest jobs number from the Labor Department.
Andrea Hsu 2:11
In August, the unemployment rate for black workers rose to 7.5%. That's up from 6.2% in January, and far higher than the overall unemployment rate of 4.3% for all workers. Unemployment among black women has risen faster than for black men. One factor driving this change could be the downsizing of the federal government. A year ago, black workers made up 18.5 and a half percent of the federal civilian workforce. At some agencies, they made up about a third.

How did a federal judge rule on the termination of TPS for Venezuelan and Haitian migrants?

Andrea Hsu 2:42
Black workers are often the first to feel the pain of economic downturns, so this uptick in unemployment could be a sign that economic troubles are ahead, Andrea Shu and PR News.
Janine Herbst 2:53
Wall Street Lower by the closing bell, you're listening to NPR News from Washington. А фельдшер the right to live and work in the US. The ruling today by US District Judge Edward Chen means six hundred thousand Venezuelans and about five hundred thousand Haitians still have their temporary protected status. Chen says Homeland Security Secretary Christy Nome's actions terminating three TPS extensions granted by the previous administration exceeded her authority and were arbitrary and capricious. M Pox, previously known as Monkey Pox, is no longer a public health emergency of international concern, that's according to the WHO. St. Pierre's Jonathan Lambert reports this comes as cases decline in the hardest hit countries in Africa.
Jonathan Lambert 3:50
Over a year ago, the WHO rang its loudest alarm bell over a surge of cases of MPOX in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Since then, outbreaks have emerged in twenty-six African countries and the disease has popped up around the world.

Why did the WHO declare Monkeypox no longer a global health emergency?

Jonathan Lambert 4:04
This year there have been over one hundred thousand cases and seven hundred deaths. But in the past several months, the situation has improved. Here's WHO Director General Tedros Adonam Gabriesus.
Unknown 4:16
This decision is based on sustained declines in cases and does
Jonathan Lambert 4:21
While MPAX no longer represents an international emergency, a continental emergency remains in place for Africa.

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