Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. The U.S. economy headlines President Trump's visit today to a swing congressional district in Pennsylvania. As NPR's Tamara Keith reports, President Trump's holding a campaign-style rally in Mount Pocono at a time when polling data suggests waning trust in his response to affordability concerns ahead of next year's midterms.
In his second term, President Trump has done very little domestic travel aimed at pitching his policies to the American people. In fact, he's done way more travel to sporting events than going out in the country and making his case. A senior White House official I spoke with who was not authorized to speak publicly readily acknowledged that this sort of messaging travel has been lacking.
and said the president would be ramping it up late this year and into next year, starting with today's trip to Pennsylvania, which is to a competitive congressional district.
NPR's Tamara Keith reporting. A United Nations report calls on countries to reform their economies and reduce pollution to prevent premature deaths and poverty. NPR's Jeff Brady reports the sprawling 1,200-page study includes the work of nearly 300 scientists from around the globe.
Every four years, the United Nations Environment Program issues its Global Environment Outlook. Executive Director Inger Andersen says addressing human-caused climate change, biodiversity loss, land degradation, pollution, and waste would improve human lives.
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Chapter 2: What are the latest updates on President Trump's campaign activities?
Doing so could, by 2050, avoid 9 million pollution-related premature deaths, lift 200 million people out of undernourishment, and move 150 million people out of extreme poverty.
Anderson says that while upfront costs for this level of change would be significant, there would be even greater worldwide economic benefits in coming decades. Jeff Brady, NPR News.
Scientists in Britain say they're making progress on a new type of gene therapy to fight a rare and aggressive form of leukemia. It involves editing the DNA of certain white blood cells. Here's NPR's Lauren Frayer.
Scientists behind this new treatment call it the world's first therapy of its type, using advanced gene editing with certain immune cells. It's being tried for patients whose cancer has not responded to standard treatments. The first patient was a 13-year-old girl. She and eight other children plus two adults have all undergone treatment as part of an early-stage clinical trial.
It was conducted by researchers at University College London and the city's Great Ormond Street Hospital. According to results published in the New England Journal of Medicine, nine of those 11 patients achieved deep remission that enabled them to go for bone marrow transplants.
And seven of them remained disease-free between three months and three years after treatment, including that first teenage patient who now wants to be a cancer doctor. Lauren Freyer, NPR News, London. You're listening to NPR News.
The United Nations is slamming Israeli security for carrying out a police raid in East Jerusalem where a U.N. agency's office serves Palestinian refugees. NPR's Jerome Sokolofsky has more from Tel Aviv.
UNRWA was set up in 1948 and it provides services to millions of Palestinians. Although the agency was banned last year from operating inside Israel, operations in occupied East Jerusalem and elsewhere continued. Police say they raided the offices to collect municipal debts.
An UNRWA statement says they seized IT equipment and other property and replaced the UN flag on the roof with an Israeli flag. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres says the raid amounts to unauthorized entry. He's demanding Israel respect the, quote, inviolability of UNRWA premises. Israel says some UNRWA employees took part in the Hamas-led attack on October 7, 2023.
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