Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. A federal vaccine advisory committee has voted to end a longstanding recommendation that all babies get the hepatitis B vaccine on the day they're born. It's a reversal of a decades-old policy that babies be vaccinated against the liver infection right after birth.
The shots are widely considered to be a public health success for preventing thousands of illnesses, but U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 's committee voted to recommend the birth dose only for babies whose mothers test positive for hepatitis. The D.C.
Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the president does have the constitutional power to fire members of two independent agencies at will, Despite federal laws to the contrary, as NPR's Andrea Hsu reports, the ruling comes as the Supreme Court prepares to tackle the same topic.
In a two-to-one decision, the court ruled that President Trump's firings of National Labor Relations Board member Gwen Wilcox and Merit Systems Protection Board member Kathy Harris were lawful, despite federal laws that state they can only be fired for cause.
The appeals court found that a 1935 Supreme Court decision limiting the president's power to remove officers at multi-member independent agencies like theirs would doesn't apply here because both agencies wield substantial executive power. On Monday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in a similar case.
The Trump administration has asked the court to strike down that 1935 precedent and recognize that the president has unlimited power to remove those who assist him in carrying out his duties. Andrea Hsu and PR News.
The Supreme Court is clearing the way for Texas to use a new congressional map for its midterm elections.
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But it doesn't guarantee Republican control of the House next year, as President Trump sought by pressing for Texas to redistrict in the first place. Houston Public Media reporter Andrew Schneider explains why.
Texas moved to redistrict its congressional map mid-decade, set off a nationwide arms race to redistrict by both parties. Travis Crum is a law professor at Washington University in St. Louis.
The signal that gets sent with this case is going to reverberate in the legal challenges to California, future legal challenges to other mid-decade redistricting maps that are being filed across the country.
In addition to California, Democrats in Virginia and Maryland are considering mid-decade redistricting to counter Texas. Republican states that have followed Texas' lead include Missouri and North Carolina. For NPR News, I'm Andrew Schneider in Houston.
Indiana's statehouse has passed a new congressional map that could net Republicans two seats. The legislation now advances to the state Senate, where it's unclear if enough lawmakers will support its final passage. Hoosier lawmakers had been reluctant to start the effort. but they have been under intense pressure from the White House to do so. The U.S.
stock market rose to the edge of its all-time high today. The S&P 500 added a tenth of a percent, the Dow added two-tenths of a percent, and the Nasdaq gained three-tenths of a percent. This is NPR. Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, the eldest son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, says his father has chosen him to run for president in 2026.
Jair Bolsonaro is serving a 27-year sentence for attempting a coup. Flavio Bolsonaro will challenge current President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva as the Liberal Party candidate. Six months after being diagnosed with cancer, former President Joe Biden was back in Washington, D.C. today, accepting an award at the LGBTQ Plus Victory Institute.
As NPR's Elena Moore reports, he spoke at the Political Action Committee's conference, taking place just blocks away from the White House.
Biden has long touted his record on LGBTQ rights. In 2022, as president, he signed a bill that codified same-sex marriage into law. Now, nearly a year after leaving office, the former president didn't shy away from criticizing the current administration in his remarks.
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Groundbreaking architect Frank Gehry has died in his Santa Monica home after a brief respiratory illness. His works were often notable for striking curves. He designed the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, and Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. Frank Gehry was 96 years old. I'm Ryland Barton. This is NPR News from Washington.