>> Live from MPR News, I'm Giles Snyder.
Happy eyed director Cash Patel says agents work through the weekend following Saturday
“night's chaos at the White House Correspondence Center in which a government charged through”
the security perimeter at the Washington Hill. >> America deserves answers. President Trump has committed to transparency and accountability and what we are doing with the team that the president has assembled is answering those questions in record speed, but also divulging them to the public at the appropriate time without jeopardizing
the integrity of the investigation. >> We're talking on Fox News before the man being held in connection with Saturday night
shooting made his first court appearance in Washington DC 31-year-old Cole Allen was charged
with attempting to assassinate President Trump. >> Terms of Iran's latest proposal to end the war launched by the US and Israel have not been made public but the Associated Press is reporting that Iran is offering to reopen the Australia for moves if the US lifts its blockade, the emerging proposal would also delay discussions on Iran's nuclear program.
“Many Israelis are hopeful that the merger of two former Prime Minister who are centrist candidates”
will create political momentum to finally defeat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing coalition. Israel's generally election is set for October as MPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports. >> Leftist Yair Lapid and mainstream right-knife Tally Bennett announced they will unite forces to oppose Netanyahu, Tel Aviv University Economics Professor Etai Atar says
that's good because for the first time in 20 years the number of people leaving the country
has surpassed the number coming in. >> We see this jump starting in 2023 and who is leaving physicians, tech people, academics, and this is a big concern because the Israeli economy is pretty much based on human capital. Those emigrating site Netanyahu's attempts to chip away at the independence of the judiciary and the war in Gaza, Atar says only new leadership can stop the brain drain and bring
Israelis who've emigrated back home, Eleanor Beardsley and Pyrenees, Tel Aviv. >> Florida Governor Randy Santas has released a new congressional map that could send more
“Republicans to DC, Douglas Sol for member station WUSF reports.”
>> Desantis unveiled the map to Fox News. They could make 4 more Florida districts Republican leaning, leaving the state with 24 GOP seats and 4 Democratic ones. >> Democrats warn it goes against state protections against partisan gerrymandering. They also say it could backfire, creating more competitive districts.
Florida lawmakers gather Tuesday in a special session to sentences called for them to consider redistricting. Mid-decade redistricting took off after President Trump began pushing Republicans in several states to redraw their maps. With the goal of gaining more seats in Congress, in response, some Democrat-led states
are also trying to redistrict legal challenges on both sides are playing out. >> You're listening to NPR news. Scientists are discovering how exposure to common environmental metals early in life can affect adolescent brains later on, by examining baby teeth, here's Imperos Maria Gidoi. The 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 six to nine months of age
was strongly linked to negative behaviors like hyperactivity as well as structural changes in the brain. Maria Gidoi, NPR news. >> So are polarizing makers, or to gather and watching to D.C. this week for what may be Jerome Powell's final meeting as Fed Chair, Powell's chairmanship is now more likely to come
to an end May 15th, the major obstacle has been removed. The Senate Banking Committee expected to advance Kevin Worcester's nomination to be Fed Chair on Wednesday, North Carolina Republican Senator Tom Tillis said he will drop his opposition to Worc after the Justice Department moved to end its investigation of Powell over the Fed's multi-billion dollar building renovation.
Diplomatic ever stand the Worcestald Stocks in Asia mostly down oil prices have risen to above $109 a barrel. 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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