"Ly, from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi saying.
Late night host Jimmy Kimmel defended himself during his show last night for a jokie made
“days ahead of the White House Correspondence dinner where a gunman opened fire nearby.”
NPR's Chloe Valtman reports, "The White House, as well as the President and First Lady, are calling for ABC and Disney to fire the comedian." Jimmy Kimmel said his quick-loss week about First Lady Melania Trump possessing a glow-like and expectant widow was referring to the 24-year age difference between President Trump and his wife.
"It was not by any stretch of the definition of call to assassination." A man has been charged for attempting to assassinate the President at the White House Correspondence dinner, which occurred two days after Kimmel's comment. The President, the First Lady, and the President's Communications Director, Stephen Chung, each berated Kimmel and called for his dismissal in separate posts on social media.
Chung wrote, "On X.com, he should be shunned for the rest of his life." Chloe Valtman and Pion News
“The Department of Homeland Security says it is executing search warrants in the Twin Cities”
as part of a criminal investigation into fraud in Minnesota. NPR News visual journalist Ben Hufflin was outside a childcare center near Abbott, Northwestern Hospital in South Minneapolis I actually saw a man wearing an FBI evidence response unit, shirt entered a building, other agents have come in and out somewhere in gloves. The DHS says various businesses are being searched.
Vice President J.D. Vance leads a task force launch last month to route out fraud and social services programs as federal scrutiny intensified over the state's response to alleged misuse of taxpayer money, Minnesota Governor, and former Democratic Vice Presidential candidate, Tim Waltz, ended his reelection campaign. One of China's biggest car companies, BYD, says its profits from this quarter dropped by
more than 50% as Chinese consumers tighten their spending. Even as other Chinese industrial firms say their profits are up, NPR's Emily Fang says
“it points to uneven economic impacts from the Middle East War.”
The car company BYD still made about $600 million, but that's less than half of what
they made in the same period the year before. That's because Chinese consumers are buying fewer cars overall. Sales in April have dropped about a quarter compared to a year ago, according to an industry association, and spending in general has slowed even more as the war in Iran makes retailers and consumers in China nervous.
Yet this week China also posted its highest industrial profits in half a year, meaning it's big manufacturing and tech companies are still making money, and a massive state oil reserve has helped China cushion some of the economic shock of the war. That's Emily Fang reporting, its NPR. The United Arab Emirates says it plans to exit the oil cartel, OPEC and its wider OPEC
plus group, and that'll be happening in three days. The globe is grappling with oil shipping disruptions, and higher energy prices while the US and Iranian peace stocks are stalled.
General Motors says it is expecting a $500 million tariff refund after the Supreme Court
ruled some of President Trump's most far-reaching levies were illegal. Today, the Michigan base automaker also said it projected earnings before interest in taxes this year to range anywhere from 13.5 billion to 15.5 billion. Scientists are discovering how exposure to common environmental metals early in life can affect adolescent brains and they're doing so by examining Baby Teeth, here's NPR's Maria Cadoy.
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 Cadoy and PR News I'm Lakshmi Singh and PR News, in Washington. Every day NPR reports stories that keep you informed without fear or favor.
That's the promise of a free press in a democracy. It's in the first amendment. I'm Tom Bowman and I cover the Pentagon for NPR. Stand up for independent news coverage today by donating early for public media giving days, coming up on May 1st and 2nd.
