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See Terms Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. The Senate has defeated a check on President Trump's power to carry out further attacks on Venezuela after Vice President J.D. vance cast a tie breaking vote. Trump has lashed out at five Republican senators who joined with Democrats to advance the resolution last week. Iran has killed more than 2,500 people as it cracks down on anti government demonstrations, according to the U S based Human Rights Activists News Agency. President Trump says he's been told on good authority that executions in Iran have stopped. He provided few details to support the claim. Jason Rezaian of former Tehran correspondent for the Washington Post and now director of the Post's Press Freedom Initiatives. He says Iran's government may be coming to an end and the US Needs to work with people on the ground there.
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The truth is that there are very few people in Washington or other global capitals that have relevant recent experience inside of Iran. And there are quite a lot of dissidents who have either left Iran in recent years, were still on the ground and willing to communicate their positions. We should be leaning on them to better understand the dynamics inside the country and how we can be most supportive.
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Jason Rezaian from the Washington Post. The Trump administration is abruptly terminating hundreds of federal grants for addiction treatment programs. NPR's Brian Mann reports.
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In termination letters viewed by NPR, the U.S. substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration says programs don't align with the Trump administration's public health agenda and are being defunded, effective immediately. NPR asked federal officials for details about the cuts but got no response. Ryan Hampton heads a program that educates addiction response teams. He says his group lost half a million dollars overnight. We're going to have to scale back and cancel a lot of our overdose prevention, training, education, technical support work that we do in the state of Nevada and across the country. It's catastrophic for us. Public health experts tell NPR as many as 2,000 programs could be forced to downsize or close. Brian Mann, NPR News, Washington.
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For seven years, NPR has tracked the cost of dozens of items at a Walmart in Georgia. NPR's Alina Selyuk reports.
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On latest visit, NPR tracked 114 prices at a Walmart south of Savannah from nearly every aisle of the superstore. Comparing to prices in December 2024, almost half the items on NPR's shopping list got more expensive last year with an average increase of 5%. The biggest culprits were beef, coffee and chocolate. Extreme weather, including droughts, have caused shortages. Some price increases likely had to do with President Trump's tariffs, notably on items imported from China and Vietnam, like plastic measuring spoons, a kid's bicycle helmet and seafood. Just a quarter of the items on NPR's list got cheaper, including eggs, finally, and Cheerios. In fact, many packaged foods did not change in price after years of increases. Alina seluk, NPR News.
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U.S. stock indexes closed lower today. This is NPR News from Washington. A federal court in California has upheld the state's Democratic leaning congressional map for the 2026 election. The ruling keeps in place the Democrats effort to counter the nationwide redistricting push led by President Trump and his Republican. The Republicans who challenged California's new map could still appeal. The US Says it's moving into the next phase of a Gaza ceasefire plan involving disarming Hamas, rebuilding the war ravaged territory and establishing the group of Palestinian experts that will administer daily affairs. President Trump's envoy, Steve Witkoff, hasn't offered details about a new transitional Palestinian administration that would govern Gaza, but other mediators in Egypt, Turkey and Qatar say the committee to administer Gaza would be led by a former deputy minister of the Palestinian Authority. The leaders of South Korea and Japan capped off a day of meetings at a recent summit by jamming to K pop songs on drums. NPR's Netta Ulaby has more.
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You would not mistake South Korean President Lee Chae Myung or Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takeichi for boy or girl band idols. The two world leaders grinned in matching blue jackets while enthusiastically drumming along to K pop hits. In a video posted on social media by the Japanese prime minister's office. That's Sanae Takeichi complimenting her South Korean counterpart on his excellent drumming skills. The performance was intended to illustrate the felicitous relationship between the two countries in a period of increasing global unrest. Neto Ulibi, NPR News.
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