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for a state visit. It's his first trip there in nearly a decade. Trump hopes to focus
“on business arrangements and not on the war in Iran."”
"We have a lot of things to discuss. I wouldn't say Iran is one of us to be honest with you because we have Iran very much under control." "This is fire between Iran and the U.S. has been holding, but Iran continues to throttle commercial oil shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. China is a major purchaser of Iranian oil, Iran's foreign minister visited China last week for talks.
A report out today offers new details on math and reading scores for students in the United States. As NPR's correct turn to reports, researchers say big losses in learning
didn't begin with the coronavirus pandemic some six years ago, but years earlier."
The annual report is called the Education Scorecard, and it comes from researchers that Stanford, Harvard, and Dartmouth, pouring over decades, math, and reading scores.
“The researchers say America's students hit a learning recession, not during COVID-19,”
but around 2013. Stanford researchers Sean Reardon "In fact, you wouldn't really know there was a pandemic effect if you just looked at the last 10 or 12 years of test scores. There's been just a steady kind of decline." As for why learning got so derailed, the researchers have two theories. One, a big federal education law was essentially abandoned around 2013, meaning school leaders started
feeling less pressure to improve, and two, social media use among US youth started to skyrocket. Corey Turner and PR News Tennessee Democrats are facing consequences for protesting the passage of new congressional maps. For member-station WPLN in Nashville, Mariana Bakayau has more.
The state was the first to redistrict after a Supreme Court case paved the way for Republicans
“to split Memphis into three districts. A similar effort in South Carolina failed, but”
although Tennessee Republicans were successful, House Speaker Cameron Sexton is taking issue with a walkout Democrat stage during the redistricting session. Sexton is now removing all Democrats from their House Committee assignments for breaking decorum, further limiting the say they're able to have in the Republican Supermajority. Democratic leader Karen Kemper from Memphis says it's not about decorum, "it's about control."
For NPR News, I'm Mariana Bakayau in Nashville. There are reports from the Philippines that shots have been fired in the country's Senate chambers in Manila. It's not clear who was firing. Philippines authorities have been trying to arrest a senator who's also wanted by the International Criminal Court. Senator Ronald Deladrosa is a former national police chief for former Philippines president
Rodrigo de Terté. The ICC is investigating Deladrosa for alleged crimes against humanity, the same charge to Terté is facing as he waits for trial in the Hague. This is NPR. A bomb blast in northwestern Pakistan yesterday killed at least nine people and injured dozens more. As Betsy Joel's reports from Islamabad, the bombing was in a region near the border with Afghanistan, stoking already tense relations between the neighbors.
Pakistani police say the blast in Surai no-wrong in Haber-Paktoon Wah Province was caused by a bomb. On a rickshaw that was detonated in an outdoor market. It comes just days after 15 people were killed in another militant attack in a nearby district. These attacks took place amid a dispute between Pakistan and the Taliban government in Afghanistan over escalating militancy. Since launching a military campaign in late February, Pakistan claims to have
killed hundreds of fighters from the Afghan Taliban and its ideological affiliate, the Pakistan Taliban inside Afghanistan. Pakistan says it wants the Afghan Taliban to vow to control the groups carrying out attacks. The Afghan Taliban government says security is Pakistan's domestic problem. For NPR news, I'm Betsy Joel's in Islamabad. The federal government says that wholesale inflation jumped 6% in April compared to the same
time period a year earlier. The producer price index measures how much U.S. businesses pay before the costs reach the consumer. A huge increase in gasoline costs made up 40% of the jump in prices that businesses paid in April. Yesterday, the federal government reported the consumer price index showed an increase of 3.8% compared to a year ago. This is NPR. Dr. Eric Topal says health influencers make big claims about longevity, but he's offering
us a reality check. We can accept that we're going to age, but we don't have to accept heart disease and cancer or neurodegenerative disease. Straight talk about how to grow old and stay healthy. That's on the Ted Brady Hour podcast, listen on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts.
