Live from NPR news in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton.
Today, federal law enforcement officials arranged 31-year-old Cole Allen on charges that
he attempted to assassinate President Trump at the White House Correspondent Center as in PR's Odette U.S. reports before the incident he allegedly sent a letter to his parents and a former employer. President Trump also said on Saturday that some of the writings that the defendant supposedly sent to family members just before the incident reveal that he was "anti-Christian."
I read these writings and I spoke with others who had and there's nothing in it that appears anti-Christian.
“I think more surprising to me is that there's also nothing we found that seems overtly”
conspiracist. NPR's Odette U.S. reporting Iran has offered to end its control over the state of Hormuz if the U.S. lifts its blockade and ends the war, according to the Associated Press. Meanwhile, the Trump administration's ambassador to the U.N. says Iran should not be allowed to use the state as a bargaining chip.
NPR's Michelle Kalman reports on a high-level meeting on the subject in the Security Council. U.S. ambassador Mike Walts says the state of Hormuz is too important to the global economy to be choked off or attacked by those he calls "tubit pirates." This state is not Iran's to wield like its own moat and drawbridge. It is not Iran's hostage, it is not Iran's bargaining chip, it is not Iran's told road.
Russia's ambassador says it's not pirate's threatening maritime security, but Western countries with what he calls their lawless actions, including sanctions and seizing vessels. China's ambassador says the root cause of the blocked straight of Hormuz is what he calls
“the illegal military actions by the U.S. and Israel against Iran.”
Michelle Kalman and PR news the United Nations. Congress has another week before its next recess, NPR's Eric McDaniel reports it's been more than 70 days since the Department of Homeland Security was fully funded. Democrats shut down the Department of Homeland Security to push reforms like body-worned cameras and a lid-on-face covering for immigration enforcement operations, but a bipartisan
bill out of the Senate to fund the rest of the H.S. hasn't even come up for a vote in the House, where speaker Mike Johnson is facing opposition from his own Republicans, and now the pressures even higher. As he could serve as agents are being paid for now for their work like protecting attendees, et cetera, as White House correspondent and association dinner, their pirate agency has
gone unfunded for a record amount of time, as Republicans app for a slow-world one-party process to fund the whole agency at once. Eric McDaniel and PR news Washington.
“The Republican Senator who had effectively blocked confirmation of President Trump picked”
to lead the Federal Reserve says he's dropping his opposition, that's after the Department of Justice ended its investigation of the current Central Bank chair Jerome Powell, the announcement by North Carolina Senator Tom Tillis removes a big hurdle to Trump's effort to install Kevin Warsh in the job. You're listening to NPR News from Washington.
The Trump administration has announced two more payouts for energy companies to walk away from offshore wind projects.
The reimbursements total nearly $900 million for projects off the coast of New Jersey,
New York, and California. It comes after a deal with a French energy company, which is getting a $1 billion payout to walk away from projects off the coast of North Carolina and New York. Scientists are discovering how exposure to common environmental metals early in life can affect adolescent brains later on by examining baby teeth, and PR's Maria Gadoi reports.
Baby teeth start to form in utero, and they develop layer by layer, bringing in elements from the mother's environment, says Dr. Manish Aurora of the Ican School of Medicine. So they grow in this incremental manner, just like tree rings do. In a new study, Aurora and his colleagues used lasers to decode those layers in baby teeth shed by nearly 500 children.
That revealed a timeline of what metals they were exposed to, even before they were born. The researchers also gathered behavior assessments and brain scans of the kids who are now adolescents.
They found that exposure to metals during a critical window between 6 to 9 months of age
was strongly linked to negative behaviors like hyperactivity, as well as structural changes in the brain. Maria Gadoi and PR News A lobster fishing boat off the coast of Cape Cod caught a split color lobster earlier this month, the half black and half orange lobster was donated to the Woods Hole Science Aquarium,
where it'll be available for public viewing odds of a lobster splitting colors are about 1 in 50 million. This is NPR News. Every day NPR reports stories that keep you informed without fear or favor. That's the promise of a free press in a democracy.
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