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What is happening at the UN General Assembly and who is speaking first?
Live from NPR News in Washington on Corva Coleman, the UN General Assembly will open its annual meeting next hour. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres is the first speaker. Later this morning, President Trump will address the gathering of world leaders and diplomats. Separately, the US Secret Service says it has discovered a significant hoard of equipment in the New York region. Capable of both crippling phone systems and carrying out phone attacks. The Secret Service says this could be used to interrupt emergency response communication and other communication links. The cache of equipment included one hundred thousand SIM cards. The Trump administration is blaming the common drug acetamine for increased cases of autism.
Medical groups say there's no clear evidence showing a causal link.
How could the Secret Service’s discovered SIM‑card cache threaten emergency communications?
And Pierre Snell Greenfield Boyce reports the National Institutes of Health just awarded more than $50 million in research grants to explore the roots of autism.
NIH Director Jay Baracharia said the 13 new grants will help scientists consider the effect of environmental and medical factors, everything from nutrition to pollutants.
For too long, it's been taboo to ask some questions for fear the scientific work might reveal a politically incorrect answer.
He said past NIH research on autism has not given families the answers they wanted. The NIH did, however, fund one very large study looking at acetaminophen use in pregnancy and the risk of autism. It analyzed data from more than two million children in Sweden and found no connection. Nell Greenfield Boyce, NPR News.
The top Democratic leaders in Congress say that President Trump has agreed to meet with them at the White House this week. It's about a federal spending plan.
What new NIH autism research grants reveal about acetaminophen and environmental factors?
Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer and House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries have been demanding the meeting with Trump. If Congress doesn't pass a spending plan soon, the federal government will shut down next week. In Florida, closing arguments are set for today in the trial of Brian Ruth. He is charged with trying to assassinate Donald Trump last year during the presidential campaign. NPR's Greg Allen reports that Ruth, who is representing himself in court, has pleaded not
guilty. Ruth was arrested after a Secret Service agent says he spotted him holding a rifle near where Trump was golfing at his West Palm Beach Club in September. Ruth presented three witnesses Monday to defend himself against charges that, if convicted, could carry a life sentence. Two were friends who testified to what he claimed is his peacefulness, gentleness, and nonviolence. The third, a former Marine sniper serving as an expert witness, did little to help Ruth's defense.
Why are Democratic leaders pushing President Trump to meet about a federal spending plan?
He said the spot. Prosecutors called a sniper's hide just outside the golf club's fence, offered what he called a clear shot at the sixth hole where Trump was soon to arrive. Greg Allen, NPR News, Fort Pierce, Florida.
And you're listening to NPR News from Washington. The White House has strongly denied an MSNBC report that Border Czar Tom Homan was recorded a year ago accepting a bag with fifty thousand dollars in cash. The report said this was part of an undercover FBI operation later shut down by Trump administration officials. NPR has not confirmed this reporting. White House spokeswoman Caroline Levitt dismissed the report.
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What’s behind the massive shrimp recall due to potential radioactive contamination?
Homan never took the fifty thousand dollars that you're referring to, so you should get your facts straight number one. Uh number two. This was another example of the weaponization of the Biden Department of Justice against one of President Trump's strongest and most vocal supporters in the midst of a presidential campaign.
MSNBC reports Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee say they plan to look into the matter. More packaged shrimp sold in grocery stores across the country are being recalled because of potential radioactive contamination. NBR's Giles Snyder has more.
This new recall follows a safety alert issued by the Food and Drug Administration last month and is part of an ongoing investigation of potential contamination of cooked and frozen shrimp imported from an Indonesian company.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is happening at the UN General Assembly and who is speaking first?
0:00–0:48
2
How could the Secret Service’s discovered SIM‑card cache threaten emergency communications?
0:48–1:47
3
What new NIH autism research grants reveal about acetaminophen and environmental factors?
1:47–2:41
4
Why are Democratic leaders pushing President Trump to meet about a federal spending plan?
2:41–3:24
5
What’s behind the massive shrimp recall due to potential radioactive contamination?
3:24–4:39