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What is President Trump’s agenda at the UN General Assembly and his side meetings?
Live from MPR News in Washington, I'm Korova Coleman. President Trump will address the opening of the United Nations General Assembly today in New York. He'll also have a lot of side meetings. That includes a visit with eight leaders of Mideast countries and he'll talk with European officials. Trump is expected to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky this week as Russia continues to bomb Ukraine. The Trump administration is telling pregnant women not to use acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol, to avoid having children with autism. President Trump told pregnant women to just tough out any pain.
For this reason, they are strongly recommending that women limit Tylenol use during pregnancy unless medically.
Why is the Trump administration advising pregnant women to limit Tylenol use?
Necessary. That's uh for instance in cases of extremely high fever. That you feel you can't tough it out?
There is no clear scientific evidence for this move. Doctors groups and autism activists say one real risk for pregnant women is fever, and Tylenol has been used for decades to treat that. U Supreme Court has issued an emergency order. It allows President Trump to fire the last remaining Democratic member of the Federal Trade Commission, NPR's Nina Totenberg reports.
The court's action is technically temporary since the justices will hear arguments in the case in December.
How does the Supreme Court’s emergency order enable Trump to fire an FTC Democrat?
But by allowing the firing of Rebecca Slaughter from the Federal Trade Commission, The court seems all but certain to overturn a nearly century old precedent that barred presidents from firing members of bipartisan regulatory agencies except for bad conduct. Dissenting for the court's three liberals, Justice Elena Kagan noted that Congress enacted the bipartisan agency framework. She said the emergency docket should not be used as it was here to transfer government authority from Congress to the president and thus to reshape the nation's separation of powers. Nina Totenberg, NPR News, Washington.
The Israeli military says a third military division of thousands of troops has returned to war in Gaza, and Pierce Ebatra reports the Israeli military assault is forcing Gaza hospitals out of service.
At least three hospitals in Gaza City say they've been forced to shut down since Monday due to Israeli tank shelling and airstrikes in the area. The Elrontisi hospital is the only one in all of Gaza providing cancer treatment, dialysis, and specialized care to children.
What is the impact of the Israeli assault on Gaza’s hospitals and civilian care?
The hospital, which was caring for more than eighty children, was bombed last week, damaging its water tanks and electricity. Israel's military did not respond to NPR's query on why it struck the hospital. Only two doctors and a nurse remain at El Rantisi now, offering first aid according to staff. The International Committee of the Red Cross says conditions at the hospitals still functioning in Gaza City are extreme. It sent one of them, some gauze medicine, along with five hundred body bags to bury the dead. Ayabatrawi NPR News, Dubai. This is NPR.
Network ABC is returning talk show host Jimmy Kimmel to the air tonight.
What are the key provisions and controversies of Texas’s new bathroom bill?
He was polled after getting criticism over comments he made about Charlie Kirk's killing. Many critics on the right and left excoriated Kimmel's removal as a violation of free speech. Texas has adopted a new law on who can use what bathrooms in public spaces. Texas says starting in December, people can only use public restrooms that match their sex assigned births. The Texas newsroom's Blaze Ganey reports on the measure signed yesterday by Texas Governor Greg Abbott.
The so-called bathroom bill applies to public schools, universities, prisons, and government buildings and includes fines for violations. Governor Abbott posted a video of himself signing the bill saying it'll keep men out of women's restrooms. Proponents say it's meant to protect women.
Why are Danish authorities investigating massive drones over Copenhagen airport?
But Ash Hall with the ACLU of Texas says the law is discriminatory and harmful to transgender, non binary and intersex people.
And it's gonna do that by causing what we call gender policing, which is where basically a complete stranger um takes a look at you and decides
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is President Trump’s agenda at the UN General Assembly and his side meetings?
0:00–0:42
2
Why is the Trump administration advising pregnant women to limit Tylenol use?
0:42–1:20
3
How does the Supreme Court’s emergency order enable Trump to fire an FTC Democrat?
1:20–2:28
4
What is the impact of the Israeli assault on Gaza’s hospitals and civilian care?
2:28–3:05
5
What are the key provisions and controversies of Texas’s new bathroom bill?
3:05–3:51
6
Why are Danish authorities investigating massive drones over Copenhagen airport?
3:51–4:38