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>> Live from MMPR News on Giles Snyder, with a deadlock over the straighter f...

driving prices at the Pomp President Trump says he will move to suspend the federal tax

on gasoline, but he can't act on his own. He would need congressional approval. Lawmakers from both parties have pushed for such a move, Republican Senator John Hoven of North Dakota.

>> Yeah, you know, I would, and I think others would, but what's going to make the real

difference is what I just described again, I get in control of the straight homeless. >> Stand off over moving, ship traffic through the straight does not seem likely to end soon, though. Trump told reporters at the White House Monday that the U.S. Iran cease fires on live support after rejecting Iran's latest proposal to end the war.

The Iran war will likely loom over Trump summit this week, which I need leaders she's jumping, Trump is to leave for Beijing later today, Tennessee is fielding multiple legal

challenges over its new congressional maps, lawmakers there were the first to redistrict

after the Supreme Court's ruling last month that weekend the landmark voting rights act. Mariana Bakiow, Member Station WPL, and reports. >> Tennessee's ACLU and WACP and Democratic Party have all filed separate lawsuits, challenging different aspects of the map, but they all have the same goal, to block it from going into effect before the midterms.

The allegations range from racial discrimination to voter disenfranchisement to an overreach of state powers.

So far, Tennessee's attorney general has argued that the NAACP doesn't have standing to

challenge the maps. A previous NAACP challenge to the state's 2022 maps was rejected by the courts because the change would have been too close to an election.

Now the NAACP is hoping that logic extends to the state's new maps.

For NPR News, I'm Mariana Bakiow, in Nashville. >> The family of one of the two people killed in a shooting at Florida State University last year is suing open AI. The led shooter consulted with Chad GPT before the attack as Douglas Sol of Member Station WUSF reports.

>> Tivu Chaba was a 45-year-old father of two when he was shot and killed. His family's legal team says there weren't enough safeguards on Chad GPT when the accused gunman asked it questions, like how many victims it would take to make the news and the busiest time at the student union building where the shooting took place. Attorney Robby Bell calls it a landmark case.

>> Our job as lawyers for the Chaba family and for the public is to make a wrong

right and to try to prevent this from ever happening again. The lawyers also alleged the Chaba in flamed and encouraged the accused shooter's delusions, beating up to the violence. Open AI says Chad GPT is not responsible for the shooting and that it provided factual responses with information that can be found across the internet.

For NPR News, I'm Douglas Sol, in Tallahassee. >> This is NPR. President Trump has nominated Cameron Hamilton to lead the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Hamilton is a former Navy SEALM through Trump fired last year when he was acting director. Hamilton was ousted after he appeared to break with Trump on the agency's future.

The bad accused of attempting to assassinate President Trump at the White House Correspondent Stender last month has pleaded not guilty, 31-year-old Cole Allen appeared in Federal Court for his arrangement Monday. Meanwhile, in Piersodet, UCF says a survey shows many are skeptical that this and two other assassination attempts were all real.

The newsguard Yuga Cole surveyed 1,000 Americans. It asked about the incident at the dinner as well as incidents at a Trump rally in Butler Pennsylvania and on golf grounds in West Palm Beach, Florida. 30% of respondents thought at least one of those was staged. Sophia Rubinson is with Newsguard.

She says that previously, uptake of conspiracy theories has been a feature of the political right in the U.S. >> But this is really one area where the political left seems to be very susceptible to prefer believing this type of baseless narratives. Across all three events, Democrats were most skeptical of the Butler incident with 42%

saying they thought it was staged. ODET UCF and PR News. >> President Trump said to get a medical checkup at the end of the month of White House as Trump's annual physical is set for May 26th at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.

The president's health has been the subject of much scrutiny, but he said Monday, he feels the same as he did 50 years ago. I'm Jail Snyder, MPR News. >> 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.

NPR, we stand for your right to be curious to make sense of the biggest story of the day and what it means for you. Follow Consider This, wherever you get your podcasts.

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