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What is the opening news briefing and who is hosting the episode?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton.
Does acetaminophen use during pregnancy increase autism risk?
The Trump administration says the active ingredient in Tylenol, acetaminiphen, can increase the risk of autism when used during pregnancy. That's despite most scientific studies having found no causal link. Researchers have attributed an increase in diagnosed autism cases to greater awareness of the disorder. The Supreme Court is for now allowing President Trump to fire a Federal Trade Commission member as it prepares to hear the case.
Can the President fire a Federal Trade Commission commissioner?
The FTC is a more than century old agency designed to protect consumers. Rebecca Slaughter was its only Democratic member. As NPR's Nina Totenberg explains, at issue is whether the president has the authority to fire the heads of agencies that are protected by Congress.
Congress created the Federal Trade Commission and lots of other agencies to be multimember, bipartisan regulatory agencies, and the Supreme Court in nineteen thirty five ruled against then President Franklin Roosevelt. And his claim that he could fire FTC commissioners at will. In a unanimous opinion, the court back then said Congress acted within its powers in declaring that a commissioner could not be fired for a policy difference and could only be fired for misconduct. But now, prodded by President Trump, the court's six member conservative majority in an emergency order today seemed
Why are France, Canada and others recognizing Palestine at the UN?
A three judge appeals court panel ruled against the administration. Now the White House is asking the full appeals court to hear the case. The administration argues the gang constitutes an invasion under the Alien Enemies Act. France, Canada, and several other countries have recognized a state of Palestine at a conference at the United Nations. Israel calls it a charade, as NPR's Michelle Kelleman reports.
The Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, says those who are recognizing Palestine as a state are simply rewarding Hamas, which attacked Israel two years ago and is still holding hostages. This is a show, but what we are doing on the ground, that's for real. UN секретар-генера Антоніо Гутереш і разінсь не офенсив і Газа Сити, а просто обои threats to annex parts of the West Bank, undermining any future Палестиниan стати.
Лецбіклі. Statehood for the Palestinians is a right, not
a reward.
Why was Jimmy Kimmel’s show suspended and what led to its return?
The US and Israel boycotted the conference. Michelle Kelleman NPR News The United Nations.
Egypt's president has pardoned a prominent activist who has been in prison for most of the last twelve years. Allah Abd El Fatah was a leading voice in the country's twenty eleven Arab Spring uprising and has gone on multiple hunger strikes behind bars. It's unclear when he will walk free. From Washington, this is NPR. Jimmy Kimmel's late night talk show will be back on air on ABC tomorrow night. Kimmel's show was suspended last week after he said President Trump's supporters were scoring political points from the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. In a statement, ABC's owner, the Walt Disney Company, says it took the show off the air, quote, to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for the country.
The company says it had thoughtful conversations with Kimmel before making the decision to return the show to air. Hurricane Gabrielle has strengthened into a powerful Category Four storm, now packing top winds of 140 miles per hour. Gabrielle is forecast to pass east of Bermuda tonight, and PRC.
Giles Snyder reports.
However, the latest advisory warns that Gabrielle is likely to kick up life-threatening surf and rip currents from North Carolina northward to Canada's Atlantic coast. Gabrielle gains strength over the warm waters of the Atlantic, but while the Hurricane Center expects the storm to gradually weaken, forecasters are advising people in the Azores archipelago to the city. To keep an eye on the storm as it makes its way north and east toward the islands by the end of the week. Kyle Snyder, NPR News. A
magnitude 4.3 earthquake rattled the San Francisco Bay Area earlier today.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the opening news briefing and who is hosting the episode?
0:00–0:03
2
Does acetaminophen use during pregnancy increase autism risk?
0:03–0:27
3
Can the President fire a Federal Trade Commission commissioner?
0:27–1:37
4
Why are France, Canada and others recognizing Palestine at the UN?
1:37–2:34
5
Why was Jimmy Kimmel’s show suspended and what led to its return?
2:34–4:38