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the U.S. gross domestic product grew 2% between January and March of this year.
“That's quarterly growth about half a percent stronger than in the last quarter of last”
year. Consumer spending is a highlight in this latest report, but the outlook is more uncertain after the war in Iran began. Prices are more expensive now, especially for gas. Defense Secretary Pete Hegzeth will testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee this
morning, and the war on Iran is expected to be the main topic. Yesterday Hegzeth spoke to a house panel and said the biggest adversary, the U.S. faces, is not Iran's military, but the defeatist words of Democrats and some Republican lawmakers.
Officials say the initial cost of the war is $25 billion, but skeptics say, "That's too low."
President Trump held a rare phone call yesterday with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and B.R.'s Charles Means reports, Russia says the talks focused heavily on current global conflicts in Europe and the Middle East. According to Kremlin adviser, Yuryushakov, Putin weighed in on the U.S. and Israel's war against Russia's ally Iran, saying he supported Trump's recent decision to prolong
the ceasefire with Tehran. Yet that Russian advice did not apply closer to home after Trump suggested a deal to end the war in Ukraine was within reach. Putin insisted Keev was prolonging the conflict by failing to accept Russian territorial demands. Putin did propose a temporary ceasefire when both Russia and Ukraine hold events commemorating
the end of World War II in early May.
At Putin said Russian troops would ultimately achieve their objectives in Ukraine, position
Putin has held since he ordered the full-scale invasion more than four years ago. Transmane's impure news. Iran's Supreme Leader has issued a written statement today, much to Bacamini says Iran will protect its nuclear and missile capabilities.
“The U.S. Supreme Court has reinterpreted a key provision of the Voting Rights Act.”
It says Louisiana's congressional map is unconstitutional, because part of it was redrawn for racial reasons. This could have implications for some majority black districts in the south, but MPR-SAM Gringlass reports the effect on this year's midterm elections isn't clear. Section two of the Voting Rights Act resulted in the creation of more than a dozen protected
majority black districts in the south, in ruling the Louisiana's congressional map an unconstitutional racial cherry-mander, the court opened the door for GOP-led states to eliminate districts drawn to be a majority black. Terry Suil is a Democratic Congresswoman from Alabama. It will pave the way for the greatest reduction.
In representation for black and minority voters, since the year's following reconstruction. Some Republicans are calling on legislators to pass new maps now, but that will be tricky given that primaries are soon in some states. Sam Gringlass and PR News Washington. You're listening to NPR.
“A federal appeals court has denied to re-here an appeal by President Trump, Trump can”
now appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court claiming presidential immunity.
Trump is supposed to pay writer E. Jean Carroll 83 million dollars in defamation for calling
a lawyer in a separate case a different jury found Trump liable for its sexual assault against Carroll. A grand jury in New Orleans has indicted the sheriff of Orleans Parish on 30 counts. Sheriff Susan Hudson is accused of mismanagement in connection with a brazen jail break last year.
10 inmates broke out of a city jail behind a wall in the bathroom toilet. They left graffiti behind mocking the ease of their escape. All were eventually caught. A London production of Andrew Lloyd Weber's Yvita is coming to New York, Jeff London reports. The production directed by Jamie Lloyd, who similarly reconceived Lloyd Weber's Sunset Boulevard,
was a smash hit in London. Rachel Ziegler picked up an Olivier for her portrayal of Eva Parone and sang "Don't cry for me Argentina outside on a theater balcony" to passers by below with the audience watching on a big screen inside. That won't be happening in New York for practical and safety considerations.
Lloyd promises he's excited to explore a new stage in idea for Broadway, no date or theater has been announced. For NPR News, I'm Jeff London in New York. This is NPR. This year for the first time in NPR's history, public media is operating without federal
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