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Shea Stevens
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Shea Stevens. The Trump administration is proposing to limit the definition of an endangered species. As NPR's Jonathan Lambert reports, the move could make it easier to damage habitats that endangered species rely on.
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Jonathan Lambert
The Endangered Species act prohibits the take of endangered species by law. Take means to harass, harm, pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture or collect a species. For decades, federal agencies have interpreted this definition to include harming the habitats endangered species depend on. Since habitat loss is the biggest driver of species loss now, the Trump administration wants to narrow that interpretation. Their proposal would only prohibit harmful actions directed immediately against a particular animal, not their habitat. The change could make it easier for developers to build on habitats used by endangered species. Jonathan Lambert, NPR News.
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Shea Stevens
Vermont. U.S. senator Bernie Sanders and New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez have wrapped up their Fighting Oligarchy tour in Missoula, Montana. Public Radio's Ellis Julin has the story.
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Ellis Julin
Thousands flocked to the University of Montana's campus to hear the two progressive lawmakers. Sanders and Ocasio Cortez were joined by several state level speakers who criticized many of the Trump administration's sweeping policy changes, including immigration, the proposed sell offs of public lands and fossil fuel friendly policies. Ocasio Cortez told the crowd the country is at a crossroads.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
We can either have extreme wealth inequality with the toxic division and corruption that it requires to survive, or we can have a fair economy for working people along with the democracy and freedoms that uphold it.
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Ellis Julin
This was the final rally on their US Tour, which has drawn tens of thousands of people since February. For NPR News, I'm Ellis Julin in Missoula, Montana.
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Shea Stevens
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell says new tariffs are likely to cause a temporary rise in inflation, which remains above the central bank's 2% target. With a solid economy and low unemployment, Powell says policymakers are holding off any decision on interest rates until they get more clarity.
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Jerome Powell
We'll get the initial reading on first quarter GDP in a couple of weeks. The data we have enhanced so far suggests that growth has slowed in the first quarter of this year from last year's solid pace. Despite strong motor vehicle sales. Overall, consumer spending appears to have grown modestly.
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Shea Stevens
Powell says prices rose at an annual rate of 2.3% in March, excluding volatile food and energy costs. Core prices were up 2.6%. California Governor Gavin Newsom is suing to halt President Trump's global tariffs. Newsom argues that Trump may respond to foreign threats or freeze or block transactions, but that he doesn't have the authority to impose tariffs without congressional approval. This is npr. A federal judge in Washington says the Trump administration defied his order to turn back two planes that ferried deported migrants to El Salvador last month. U.S. district Judge James Boasberg is giving the administration until April 23rd to make a correction or identify the individuals who defied his order. The administration admits that a man on one of the planes, Kilmar Obrego Garcia, was deported and imprisoned by mistake, but insists that he's a gang member who cannot return to the US Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen says he was denied access to Abrego Garcia during a visit to El Salvador on Wednesday. The periodic shift of the north and south poles can weaken Earth's magnetic field and let in more ultraviolet light. NPR's new research suggests that the last time this happened, ancient humans may have developed new sun protection. NPR's Jonathan Lampert reports.
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Jonathan Lambert
About 41,000 years ago, the magnetic North Pole started drifting. This weakened Earth's magnetic field to as little as 10% of its current strength in parts of Europe and the Middle East. That would have exposed those regions to higher levels of harmful solar radiation, according to new research in the journal Science Advances. Around that time, people in those regions began more frequently tailoring clothes to more fully cover their bodies and using ochre, a mineral based pigment with sun protective properties. Neanderthals didn't use these technologies. The researchers suggest that difference might in part explain Neanderthals downfall. Jonathan Lambert, NPR News.
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Shea Stevens
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