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most of the Department of Homeland Security.
“The agency's been without full funding since mid-Ferruary.”
President Trump has signed this into law. NPR's Claudia Grisales says DHS had been shuffling money around to pay some of its employees. The Senate passed a plan five weeks ago to fund the agency except for some immigration enforcement divisions that could not get through the house, so the White House redirected government funds the pay DHS workers despite questions over the legality of that decision.
And now the agency was about to run out of that new money, so the House had that. NPR's Claudia Grisales reporting, the immigration enforcement operations within DHS were not funded in this bill, but those employees are still getting paid. They were provided for last year when Congress passed the one big, beautiful bill that President Trump backed.
It's been 60 days since President Trump began attacking Iran. The war powers resolution of 1973 mandates the President must get authorization from Congress to continue a war after 60 days. But in Senate testimony yesterday, Defense Secretary Pete Heggseth waved that off.
“He claims the current ceasefire with Iran is paused for legal obligation.”
The motoring club AAA says gas prices have jumped again. Over night, the average national cost of a gallon of regular increased 9 cents throughout 33 cents a gallon in a week. Motorist Angela Scafuso crossed from Illinois into Indiana to find cheaper gas. It wasn't.
I actually was shocked as I was driving down this road here. The average price for a gallon of regular in Indiana is now $4.80. The Census Bureau starts a fuel test for the 2030 census today in parts of Alabama and South Carolina. NPR's Hansi Low-Wang reports this test is expected to involve letter carriers from the U.S.
Postal Service. The Census Bureau is asking households in Huntsville, Alabama and Spartanburg, South Carolina to fill in online survey. Houses that don't may be interviewed in person starting in June by census workers or letter carriers.
It's part of a Trump administration overhaul of the 2026 census test that's drawn skepticism from census watchers who cited past government and accountability office study that found that using postal workers to conduct interviews would not be cost effective. This test census asks people about their U.S. citizenship status. Research shows that's likely to hurt the accuracy of numbers used to redistribute political
representation and federal funding. In a court-fallowing the Trump administration says it may soon formally propose to alter census numbers that the 14th amendment says must include the quote "whole number of persons in each state" on Zila Wang and PR News. "You're listening to NPR News from Washington."
President Trump has dropped his nominee for Surgeon General Dr. Casey Means, whose nomination was stalled in the Senate, he's now tabbed Dr. Nicole Sapphire, a radiologist and wellness influencer. About one in 15 women will experience major depressive disorder in the year after giving birth.
And B.S. Gabriella Emmanuel reports new data suggests that number varies greatly from country to country. The condition involves persistent sadness and difficulty functioning day-to-day. The study published in the medical journal "The Lancet Psychiatry" founded that rates
of major depressive disorder were the highest in southern sub-Saharan Africa at around 15 percent
of postpartum women and the lowest in high-income parts of Asia Pacific, dipping to just about 3 percent. Women in North America experienced rates between 4 and 5 percent.
“Researchers say getting a global picture is a key step in targeting prevention screening”
and treatment programs. Gabriella Emmanuel and PR News. The winner of this year's Academy Award for Best Documentary says he's Oscar Statue at his missing. Russian school teacher Pavel Talankin's film, Mr. Nobody Against Putin, is a record of how
his students were indoctrinated to support Russia's war against Ukraine. Talankin tells Deadline News when he went to fly out of New York this week, a TSA agent and an official from Lufthansa Airlines, said he could not bring the Oscar on board. It was put in checked luggage and described as a potential weapon when Talankin got to Germany, it was gone.
Lufthansa says it's looking for it. This is NPR.
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