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Giles Snyder
The world@fredhutch.org LookBeyond Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. President Trump's cabinet is now complete. The Senate has confirmed Lori Chavez Di Riemer as Labor Secretary. Here's NPR's Don Gagne reporting.
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Don Gonyea
Chavez Di Riemer was confirmed with a vote of 67 to 32, with 17 Democrats joining with the majority Republicans to vote yes. Three Republicans did vote no, including Kentucky's two senators, Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul. Senator Paul had expressed doubts about the nominee because of her past support for the PRO act, also known as the Protect Our Right to Organize act, which is the labor movement's top legislative priority. During her Senate hearing, Chavez D. Rimer backed off from that position, saying she saw the PRO act as starting point for legislative bargaining. Her nomination was backed by some prominent labor unions, including the Teamsters. Don Gonyea, NPR News.
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Giles Snyder
House Republicans have set up a vote for tomorrow on a stopgap funding bill that would avert a partial government shutdown. The House Rules Committee this evening advanced the measure to the full chamber. House Democrats expected to oppose the bill that would extend government funding past midnight Friday. That package must also be approved by the Senate. The sell off on wall accelerated on Monday amid worries about tariffs and other Trump administration policies. Here's NPR's Maria Aspen.
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Maria Aspen
The stock market has been up and down, but mostly down, since early last week when President Trump's new tariffs went into effect. Then Trump gave a few temporary reprieves to automakers in Mexico and Canada. But all the whiplash spooked investors who are worried that tariffs could eventually hurt the broader economy.
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Giles Snyder
The S&P 500 fell 2.7% on Monday after coming off its worst week since September. The Dow dropped 890 points and the Nasdaq fell 4%. Asian stocks, taking their cue from Wall street, falling sharply in Tuesday trading out of concern about a trade war. The killings of members of Syria's Alawite minority has sparked the exodus of another minority, the Druze from the Syrian coast. Students from the Druze homeland of Soweta, unable to leave during the violence, are now being evacuated. And Pierce, Jane Araf was there.
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Jane Araf
It's late at night and we're on the highway between Damascus and Su of these buses coming back, and they're filled with students, more than a thousand of them, Druze students from the Druze religious minority who have come back from the coast where there have been killings of the Alawite minority. They say all of the Druze students have left, all of them terrified of the same thing happening to them that happened to the Alawite. Jay Narath, NPR News, near Damascus.
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Giles Snyder
And from Washington, this is NPR News. Crews in Washington, D.C. have begun work to remove the large yellow Black Lives Matter painted on a street one block from the White House. D.C. mayor Muriel Bowser announced the move last week, responding to pressure from Republicans in Congress. Words were painted during President Trump's first term. Today is Harriet Tubman Day, and a New Hampshire lawmaker is renewing her effort to have Tubman honored on US Currency. This is the latest in years of attempts to replace President Andrew Jackson with Tubman on the bill. NPR's Chandelys Duster has more.
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Chandelys Duster
The Harriet Tubman Tribute act of 2025 calls for the treasury secretary to include Tubman's face on all $20 bills printed after December 31, 2030. A previous version of the measure stalled in Congress. Ernestine Tina Martin, Wyatt, Tubman's three times great grandniece, says she doesn't want Congress or the White House to delay the initiative any longer.
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Ernestine Tina Martin
You don't have to like us. You don't have to not even want to support us or anything like that, but just do the right thing. Think about what God would want you to do.
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Chandelys Duster
Senator Jeanne Shaheen, a Democrat who created the bill, says she will pursue all avenues to ensure Tubman will be recognized on the currency chandelyse. Duster, NPR News.
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Giles Snyder
In sports, the UConn women's basketball team has won its fifth straight Big east tournament championship, beating Creighton 70 to 50 to win the title. The victory gives UConn an automatic bid to the women's NCAA basketball tournament, which begins next week. I'm Jael Snyder. This is NPR News.
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