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a Tennessee State Capitol where Republicans state lawmakers have approved a new U.S. House map. The divides a majority black district representing Memphis. It's part of a broad effort. President Trump has pushed in the South to give Republicans an edge in retaining their congressional majority in this year's midterm elections. To days, development comes in the wake of the recent Supreme Court ruling that further week in the voting rights act as it struck down
a congressional map in Louisiana that created a second majority black district.
Iran is denying that its armed forces were responsible for an explosion aboard a South Korean tanker stranded in the straight of Hormuz. NPR's Anthony Cune reports from Seoul that South Korea is still investigating the cause of the blast. "An explosion hit the Panamanian flagged cargo ship operated by a South Korean shipping company on Monday. A fire then broke out in the engine room but there were no injuries. President
“Trump said that Iran had fired on the ship and said that's why South Korea should join”
project freedom intended to escort merchant ships through the straight of Hormuz. But Iran's embassy in Seoul said in a statement that it had nothing to do with the explosion.
Seoul said it did not need to consider joining project freedom as Trump himself announced
a suspension after about two days. The ship is being towed to a dock in Dubai and a South Korean government team has been sent to investigate. Anthony Cune and PR News Seoul." Due to the war, World Well prices are high, but they have eased back, Patrick Dehan, at gas buddy says it'll take a while to see relief in soaring U.S. gas prices. "The national average is starting to decline. It's not about a 10-year gallon today. Nothing significant,
but it does generally take a little bit longer for declines and prices to start rippling down the station."
“Triple A reports of people are paying now on average $4.56 for a gallon of regular gasoline.”
New poll shows Americans believe many members of Congress are too old and appears a later more reports on the latest findings from NPRPBS News and Marist. The poll looked at support for maximum age limits and term limits for members of Congress, and it found that the vast majority of Americans' 810 support both. It's also got by partisan backing. 78% of Democrats and 83% of Republicans like the idea of age caps and similar amounts
support term limits. 18-year-old Michael Hatch of U.D., Kansas feels that way about leaders in Washington. "They just might be out of touch. You got 70-80-year-olds in Congress running the country. It's not representing people like me." But support for age and term limits goes past young folks. The generation with the most support, Gen X, folks in their late 40s to early 60s, Elena Moore and Pyrenees.
From Washington, this is NPR News. Oceanwide Expedition says dozens of passengers left one of its cruise ships that was struck by a head of virus outbreak. The Rodenborn illness has killed at least three people, and several have been confirmed or are suspected to have been contaminated. Authorities in South Africa and Europe are tracing contacts to the passengers who left the ship. WHO director-general
Tedros Adnom Gibriacis weighed in on the current outbreak. "Our priorities are to ensure the affected patients receive care that the remaining passengers on the ship are kept safe and treated with dignity and to prevent any further spread of the virus." Health officials still maintain the risk to the wider public remains low. In Asia, robots help assemble cars and factories and surf-food and restaurants already. Robots are also in the business of spirituality now.
NPR's Emily Fang reports on a robot monk who has joined a Buddhist order in South Korea. Nicknamed "Goddy," meaning Buddha's mercy. The robot monk led prayer at a temple and central soul this week. Helping human monks chant Buddhist sutras. "Goddy" was inducted into a prominent Buddhist order in South Korea, and its ordination was a bit of a novelty, and at the sign of how Asia's Buddhist communities have been trying to update and mainstream their faith
practice. In Japan, where Buddhism is also widely practiced, a robot monk prototype dubbed "The Bouderoyed" by its inventors is programmed with scripture and can correct those studying Buddhist texts.
Emily Fang and Pernus. "It's NPR." Rare Earths have become a powerful political tool for China,
but before that, one U.S. company monopolized the industry. We have the dramatic story of how
“America dominated the market for rare earths and then lost it all. "I think about that almost every”
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