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Congress is ending a historic shutdown at the Department of Homeland Security to day the
“House approved a bill to fund DHS minus immigration enforcement through the end of the fiscal”
year. The measure was approved with a voice vote after weeks of delays in infighting among Republicans on the path forward to fund the agency. U.S. House primaries in Louisiana are suspended that day from Republican Secretary of State Nancy Landry and the wake of yesterday's U.S. Supreme Court ruling in which a conservative
majority struck down an election map that was redrawn to create a second majority black
congressional district in Louisiana. Andrew says other state primaries will proceed as scheduled. For a second day, Pentagon officials were on Capitol Hill, and Pierce Quillore and support senators grill the defense secretary about the war with Iran and a huge proposed defense budget increase.
Secretary Pete Higgs has cited high military recruiting numbers as evidence of support for the Iran war senators like New York Democrat, Kirsten Gillibrand, pushed back. What I'm concerned about is we are not safer and I would just like to know why you have not sought the support of the American people and three out of five Americans are against
this war today.
“I believe we do have the support of the American people, and we have briefed regularly what”
this mission looks like and why it's critically important that we undertake it. Gillibrand pointed to the aren't U.S. air strike that killed more than 100 Iranians in school girls and Iran's blockade driving up prices as reasons the war is unpopular. Higgs has said the biggest U.S. adversaries are Democrats and some Republicans who doubt the war.
Quillore and St. P. R. News The U.S. economy grew faster in the first three months
of the year than at the end of 2025. And P. R. Scott Horsley reports on the latest GDP figures from the Commerce Department. The U.S. economy grew at an annual rate of 2% in the first three months of the year. That's a little bit slower than forecasters had expected, but a marked improvement from the final three months of last year when growth was hampered by the six week government
shutdown. Consumer spending grew at an annual rate of 1.6% during the first quarter.
“Business investment was up sharply as companies continue to pour money into data centers”
and artificial intelligence. The ongoing stalemate in the straight of Hormuz continues to push crude oil prices higher. Triple A says retail gasoline prices jumped another seven cents overnight to an national average of $4.30 a gallon for regular. Scott Horsley and P. R. News Washington.
Iran's national soccer team is set to compete in the world cup. The administration's given mixed signals about their entry to the U.S. At the White House today, the president said, "Let him play." "You can have them. You don't have to have them. Probably have a good team." "Do they have a good team? Do you have any on you?"
The U.S. Mexico and Canada are co-hosting the world cup this summer. This is N. P. R. News. British royalty came to front royal today. Country music recorded by the Associated Press blaring in the background in this historic northern Virginia town as King Charles III and Queen Camilla joined thousands of spectators this afternoon to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
King Charles was also on a mission this week to diffuse U.S. and U.K. tensions. He met with President Trump and addressed a joint meeting at Congress. This is the final day of King Charles State visit. A major study finds that artificial intelligence has made big advances in medical reasoning and can outperform doctors on some common tasks. The research was published in the journal Science
Today and PRS will stone as the tales. Researchers at Harvard Medical School found that an AI reasoning model developed by Open AI excelled at diagnosing patients and making decisions about managing their care. It matched and often out performed doctors and the earlier AI model GPT4. The study included actual cases from the emergency department at Beth Israel-Deaconess Medical Center. Dr. Adam Rodman was one of the study
authors. This is not an artifact of our evaluation methods, but it works from making diagnoses in the real world. Rodman says their study does not suggest AI should replace doctors, but it is a call to do forward-looking trials to see whether AI models can actually improve care. We'll stone and PR news. The dials closed up 790 points or 1.6%. This is NPR News.
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