"Live from MPR News, I'm Giles Snyder.
He is to arrive in Beijing, Wednesday evening for a state visit with Chinese leaders
Xi Jinping. Trump told reporters that trade will be the main focus, a new MPR Chicago Council Ipsos poll. Finds most Americans think U.S. tariffs have been bad for both economies and driven up consumer costs. Empires Frank Langfitt reports." Alisa Kajiwar is a physical therapist and greater Chicago, when she bought a Chinese-made board game. She knows tariffs added up to $20 to the price.
“"I think the tariffs are bad. Making a worse deal for a country's trade does not mean”
we'll get more stuff out of it." "David Morgan lives in North Carolina and supports tariffs, low-age competition from China's sank is furniture company." "This is dried up. We don't have the orders. We file chapter 11 and so long for a lot of
there's stuff. The poll shows most Americans see a potential solution. Cut tariffs on China
and exchange for China buying more U.S. agricultural goods. Frank Langfitt and PR news, Washington." The commissioner of the food and drug administration is leaving after 13 months on the job Dr. Marty McCary has president Trump to accept his resignation Tuesday as MPR Sydney Lupkin reports.
Speaking to reporters Tuesday, President Trump said McCary would be leaving and that a deputy would take over FDA temporarily. During his tenure at the agency, McCary at times angered
“the Make America healthy again movement for not advancing its agenda quickly enough.”
Many Mahah supporters were upset when the agency approved updated COVID-19 vaccines last year. McCary also disappointed people who oppose abortion by not completing a promise safety
review of Mifra Pristone. Meanwhile, he faced criticism from those looking for a more predictable
approach to FDA regulation. We're joining the Trump administration. McCary was a surgeon and health policy researcher at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. City Lupkin and PR news The Iran War has pushed inflation to its highest level in almost three years.
And PR Scott Horace reports on the latest cost of living report from the Labor Department. Consumer prices in April were up 3.8% from a year ago. That's the biggest annual increase since May of 2023. Price is jumped 6.10% in the last month alone. Higher energy prices triggered by the closing
“of the straight-of-war moves accounted for about 40% of that overall monthly increase.”
Gasoline prices have jumped about a buck and a half since the war began, and diesel prices are even higher. That's also starting to show up in the price of other goods and services. The price of plain tickets, for example, is up more than 20% from a year ago. As airlines struggle with soaring jet fuel prices, higher trucking costs may have also contributed to a sharp monthly jump in grocery prices.
Scott Horace, the MPR News, Washington. And you're listening to MPR News. President Trump's post to reshape house districts had mixed results Tuesday, redistricting efforts appear to have stalled out in South Carolina where state senators expressed concern that it could backfire. But in Missouri, the state Supreme Court Tuesday upheld a new map
back by Trump, ruling that a public initiative putting the question on the ballot would not stop the new map from taking effect this fall. And Alabama, Republican Governor K. Ivy, has announced a special primary election for four congressional districts after the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for Alabama to use a map that had been blocked by the courts.
The Eurovision Song Contest launched today in Vienna, Austria. And Piers' Chloe Veltman reports on the geopolitical rips that are casting a shadow over this annual extravaganza now in its 70th year. The 2026 Eurovision entry from Israel performed by Noan Betan is sung in three languages English, Hebrew, and French to both reflect the artist's multilingual background and potentially
increase the song's international appeal. But five countries, Iceland, Ireland, the Netherlands, Slovenia, and Spain pulled out after organizers decided to allow Israel to compete. Pro-Palestinian protests at the last two contests called for Israel to be disbarred over the war in Gaza, as well as allegations that attempted to manipulate voting to favor its
entry. The organizers are expecting both anti and pro-Israel demonstrations in the run up to the finals on Saturday, Chloe Veltman and Pianus. On Consider This, NPR's afternoon news podcast, we cover everything from politics to the economy to the world, but every story starts with a question.
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