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What did President Trump say at the UN and how did Iran respond?
Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. A day after President Trump stood before the UN General Assembly and threatened to annihilate Iran if it did not agree to a deal, This morning, the president of Iran told the international gathering in New York his country is the victim of US and Israeli aggression.
In his speech to the UN General Assembly, Iranian President Masood Pezeshkian said that Iran's defensive systems were built to defend his country so that quote no one can think that bombing Iranian cities will go unanswered. He held up a picture of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Iranian schoolgirls who were killed in US Israeli strikes in February, and called the US quote terrorists, prompting the one US representative in the assembly hall to walk out. Pazeshkian denied that Iran wanted a nuclear weapon and refused limitations on its civilian nuclear program. On Tuesday, Iranian and US delegations met via mediators for three hours, according to President Trump. Trump said Iran must decide whether it will agree to a deal or face quote obliteration.
Hadil al Shalchi, NPR News, Istanbul.
How are global oil disruptions affecting U.S. gasoline and diesel prices?
Fuel prices have soared as a result of oil shipping disruptions related to the war. Today triple A listed the average price. For a gallon of regular gasoline unleaded, slightly down at four dollars forty seven. Thiesel was running around six hundred fifty two. In New York, former movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to fifteen years in prison. for sexually assaulting former television production assistant Miriam Mimi Haley in two thousand six after he was convicted at his retrial. Weinstein's previous convictions involving Haley and actress Jessica Mann were overturned in New York. He was retried and convicted last year for his criminal act against Haley. Weinstein pleaded not guilty to all charges in New York as well as in California.
Why was Harvey Weinstein sentenced to 15 years and what were the charges?
Where he was convicted of rape in a separate case and sentenced to sixteen years in prison before an appeals court ordered his resentencing there. The former head of the US Forest Service under the first Trump administration speaking out against a controversial reorganization of the agency. Happening under the current administration. Here's NPR's Kirk Sigler.
The Forest Service, along with its parent agency, the US Agriculture Department, are undergoing a massive reorganization, including the closure of seven regional offices, research stations, and the relocation of its headquarters from Washington DC to Utah. Vicky Christensen was a Trump appointee who ran the agency from twenty eighteen to twenty twenty one.
The reduction in the federal workforce without any real specific strategy uh Is concerning
a press call organized by environmental groups.
USDA has defended it in statements to NPR saying it will make the agency more efficient.
You're listening to NPR News. The Trump administration is removing the names of seven hundred sixty thousand people from Obamacare. Officials say some of the people are fraudulently enrolled in healthcare through the Affordable Care Act while other recipients don't even exist.
What changes are being made to the U.S. Forest Service and why are they controversial?
Yesterday, Vice President J D Vance said the administration's actions would save more than two billion dollars in taxpayers' subsidies. Julie Rovner, KFF Health News, spoke to NPRs here
and now. The Biden administration uh put in these additional subsidies um for that enabled a lot of people to get Obamacare with zero premiums. Well, brokers realized that they could then sign up those people, and of course, since they didn't owe any premiums, the brokers could get the commissions. Um so there was a a fair bit of fraud.
As a federal judge weighs a lawsuit by three major media outlets fighting to get their White House credentials restored. The White House has a new YouTube channel featuring only Trump administration content. Here's NPR Scott Newman.
How is the Trump administration reshaping media access with its new YouTube channel?
The channel launched Monday evening just days after Trump announced that he was banning journalists from CNN, MS Now and Politico from the White House. Democrats including Arizona Senator Mark Kelly and California Governor Gavin Newsom have likened Trump TV to state run media, the antithesis of a free press.
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Chapters
5 chapters
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What did President Trump say at the UN and how did Iran respond?
0:01–1:12
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How are global oil disruptions affecting U.S. gasoline and diesel prices?
1:12–1:54
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Why was Harvey Weinstein sentenced to 15 years and what were the charges?
1:54–3:14
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What changes are being made to the U.S. Forest Service and why are they controversial?
3:14–3:57
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How is the Trump administration reshaping media access with its new YouTube channel?
3:57–5:03