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The House voted this week to invoke the War Powers Act, limiting President Trump's power
“to continue directing military action on Iran without congressional authorization.”
It passed with the help of a few Republicans, and here's Ron Elving has more. This week, four members of the Republican Majority Cross-Diile to vote with the Democrats and invoke the War Powers Act on Iran. Now this is legislation that's been on the books since the wind down from the Vietnam War, and it requires congressional approval after an overseas deployment has lasted 60 days.
We're way past that with the war on Iran, but past efforts to invoke the act of falling short. This time with the margin of majority down to the fingers of one hand, the defection of four Republicans was enough. Now we'll see if the Senate follows through. NPR's Ron Elving, reporting. President Trump has issued a full pardon for a former Republican congressman convicted of insider trading.
NPR's James Jones reports the pardon follows appeals for the action from leading Republicans.
“In 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission accused Stephen Buer of using non-public information”
to buy shares of companies ahead of big announcements. He was convicted by a jury in 2023 and sentenced to 22 months in prison, and appeals court rejected Buer's claim that he was wrongfully convicted and the Supreme Court failed to take up his case. Trump has pardoned 13 current or former members of Congress over his two terms, and he continues to claim that previous Democratic administrations used Department of Justice prosecutions to punish political enemies.
In a statement to the Associated Press, Buer says the pardon quote "corrects a politically motivated prosecution." James Jones and PR News. In Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Ebola is still spreading widely, with new figures showing at least 452 confirmed cases a number which is likely the tip of the iceberg. The Congolese government has re-imposed travel restrictions at the epicenter of the outbreak
as Emmett Livingston reports.
“Without warning, the Congolese government suspended flights to and from the city of Buenia,”
the capital of a jury province.
It's the second time Congo has suspended flights since the outbreak began last month.
The jury in Eastern Congo is the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak, harboring over 94% of the confirmed cases. Official figures released on Friday showed that 71 new cases had been recorded in a single day. The number of Ebola fatalities also jumped. Congo's National Institute for Public Health said in a report that this shows there is "rapid and ongoing community transmission." Eight workers on the ground paint a similar picture. Hospital's are poorly equipped and overwhelmed, they say, "and there's no way of knowing the true number of people who have been infected."
For NPR News, I'm Emmett Livingston in Cancassa. And you're listening to NPR News from Washington. Golden tempo won the Belmont Stakes in New York today. The horse also won the Kentucky Derby, but didn't race in the precness so there's no triple crown winner this year.
Commandment came in second and Renegade took third place.
This is the third and final Belmont that will be held at Saratoga. It moved there from Belmont Park has it underwent renovations. The hardest tissue in the body is tooth enamel, and Piers' Nate Rott reports a new study looks at how it's evolved to change with human diets. Enamel is the pearly white outermost layer of teeth. It's founded many vertebrate species.
And unlike bones, it can't repair itself, so it needs to be especially durable. The new study published in the journal Nature looks at the structure of Enamel on the nanoscale, very close up. Pupigilbert, the lead author, is a physicist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Well, you see that there are very, very parallel crystals that are parallel like stray hair in the Pony Day on the sandwich. But they found in species such as meat eating early humans that ate harder or tougher foods,
those parallel crystals were slightly as skew, a tiny adaptation the study finds that helps fractures in Enamel's day small. Nate Rott and Pierre News
Pupigil was in Spain for a week long visit the first by a pope in 15 years.
He was greeted by the Spanish king and queen in Madrid this morning, and he'll address both houses of the Spanish Parliament. And he'll also visit the Canary Islands to meet with migrants and pay tribute to the thousands who have died at sea attempting to reach Spanish soil. You're listening to NPR News. Every episode of it's been a minute, NPR is what's happening in culture podcast. Starts by asking three questions.
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