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>> Live from NPR news in Washington,

I'm Rylan Barton.

President Trump signs an executive order today,

calling for revamped childhood vaccine recommendations that promote his long-held belief that certain shots should be spaced out into separate medical visits. >> Large amounts of vaccine, large amounts, and that's a vaccine are currently pumped into your child's body.

>> The order recommends separating the measles, mumps, and rebel of vaccine into three different shots administered in separate visits. Trump has long said the number or timing of vaccines play a role in autism, scientific consensus and decades of studies

have firmly concluded there is no link. >> President Trump has extended a waiver, allowing foreign ships to transport goods among U.S. ports.

The president first waived the Jones Act in March to ease transportation

and reduce price pressures after the Iran war began. The move comes after Trump rejected Iran's demand for reparations.

And exchange for reopening the straight-of-form moves,

prolonging the conflict. President Trump is demanding that his justice department move forward with felony charges against former Olympian David Hurn, alleging he vandalized the reflecting pool in Washington, D.C., it comes after Trump's U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia,

Janine Piro moved to dismiss the case. David Hurn says he'll continue to defend himself. >> My confidence is being tested for sure here in what our nation can withstand. But I don't think people are taking this lying down.

I've had so much support from all of my biking buddies,

my paddling buddies, my neighborhood friends.

Of course, my family, it's been an overwhelming feeling. They have my back. >> President Trump's former personal lawyer Todd Blanch has been sworn in as attorney general after a confirmation fight. He's been leading the justice department in an acting capacity

since Trump fired Pam Bondi in April.

And a new poll commissioned by supporters of election reforms finds voters

are open to some big changes into how Congress is elected, and PR's Ashley Lopez reports. >> The poll shows their significant support for moving the U.S. toward proportional representation. It's a system used in most democracies that elect multiple representatives

in a single district, according to a party's vote share. Lead Dropman with the liberal thing, take new America, partnered with the advocacy group fix our house to commission the poll of 1,000 voters. He says they found this idea was supported by a margin of two to one.

>> So probably the most appealing aspect of proportional representation, based on this polling, is that it provides a solution to jerrymandering and it increases the competition for voters. >> More than 90% of how selections this year are on competitive. Ashley Lopez and PR news.

>> The U.S. stock market etched down from its all-time high today about oil prices rose on uncertainty about when the straight-of-war moves could reopen. This is NPR. Food companies would have to notify the FDA before introducing new

colors, flavorings, and other ingredients in a proposal announced today. The change would reverse a decades-old policy allowing companies to self-certify that new ingredients are safe. Health advocates blamed that for allowing thousands of additives into the U.S. food supply.

>> Researchers say a new AI chatbot could make it easier for authorities to track down works of art stolen by the Nazis during World War II. And PR's Chloe Veltman says roughly a fifth of the more than 600,000 stolen works have yet to be reclaimed. >> The goal of Santa Clara University's AI Providence Assistant is

to allow users to conduct research across many disparate databases around the world that contain records about art stolen by Nazis. Business School Professor Michael Santoro helped develop it. We are applying AI tools to make it easier to make the kinds of connections that seasoned researchers would have to spend a long time

having to do manually. >> But the chatbot currently only scrapes records from a single database and some researchers in the field of Nazi-Luted art say they are skeptical about its potential expansion because many archives remain undigitized and are subject to privacy laws.

Chloe Veltman NPR News. The full-blown tank season is no longer trending in major league baseball. After the Rockies lost 111 games last season of the White Sox lost a record 121 games in 2024. This year there's a decent chance that no team will lose 100 games

for the first time since 2017.

This is NPR News. >> 50 years ago Congress set out to protect coal miners from black lung disease. Today it's back at rates not seen in half a century. >> These guys are being treated like disposable widgets, not human beings. >> On the Sunday story, why coal miners and Appalachia are getting sicker faster.

Listen now to the Sunday story from the up first podcast on the NPR app.

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