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Lakshmi Singh
live from NPR News. I'm Lakshmi Singh. The U.S. supreme Court is allowing an additional three day extension to patients telemedicine access to the abortion pill mifepristone. The justices are seeking time to decide key issues of a lawsuit out of Louisiana. The state argues that the FDA's decision to allow telemedicine access undermines Louisiana's abortion ban. A federal appeals court agreed, but the nation's top court pause a decision. President Trump is expressing pessimism about the fate of the ceasefire between the US And Iran. It's been in question after recent attacks by both sides. The US And Iran have traded ceasefire proposals, but still no agreement. Here's NPR's DanielleBen.
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Danielle Kurtzleben
Trump is not putting a positive spin on where things are.
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Admiral Brian Christine
I would say the ceasefire is on massive life support, where the doctor walks in and says, sir, your loved one has approximately a 1% chance of living.
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Danielle Kurtzleben
He did not elaborate on what might end that ceasefire or what would come next. He said he didn't even finish reading Iran's latest response to a US Ceasefire proposal, calling it a quote, piece of garbage. Trump has expressed disappointment with the negotiation process before and threatened military action, but has so far not followed through on those threats. Danielle Kurtzleben, NPR News, the White House.
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Lakshmi Singh
President Trump is slated to meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping this week in Beijing. Trump had rescheduled that visit to China after the war with Iran broke out. The issue of the war is likely to be a main topic, but NPRC Pashivaram reports the AI race is also expected to come up when it comes
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Deepa Shivaram
to AI technology from American companies like OpenAI, Anthropic and Google. Experts say those models are better than what China's putting out. The US is by some estimates about six to 12 months ahead of China. So Trump is right that the US Is leading the AI race in that regard. But where China is inching ahead is on AI adoption, how integrated AI is in their society, and how accessible their AI products are. In the meeting this week, Trump and Xi are expected to talk about global risk management when it comes to the rise of AI. Deepa Shivaram, NPR News.
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Lakshmi Singh
More than 20 countries are preparing to receive or are treating people from a cruise ship that was stricken with a hantavirus outbreak. The United States received 18 individuals. One American tested positive for the Rodenborn disease, but the assistant secretary for health, Admiral Brian Christine, says the risk to the general public is low.
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Admiral Brian Christine
The Andes variant of this virus does not spread easily, and it requires prolonged close contact with someone who is already symptomatic. Even so, we have taken this situation very seriously from the very start.
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Lakshmi Singh
Sixteen people are being monitored in Nebraska. Two are in Georgia. This is NPR News. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer is warning Republican colleagues in a letter today that his party will challenge attempts to spend a billion dollars for ballroom security upgrades. Senate Republicans propose a measure after a man allegedly attempted to assassinate President Trump during Washington, D.C. event last month. Today, that suspect Cole Allen, the California man accused of the foiled attack at the White House Correspondent's Dinner, pleaded not guilty to the charges against him. Some plants appear to have a special trick to survive periods of environmental upheaval. Science reporter Ari Daniel has details.
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Ari Daniel
There are species whose entire genomes get duplicated and stuffed into every one of their cell, ultimately impact survival, but it's pretty common today, especially in plants. Why is that? Researchers scoured the DNA of several hundred plants for evidence of genome duplication events that occurred long ago and look to see when they happened. They do not occur randomly. They are clustered in time. In particular, says Ghent University plant biologist Eve Van de Per, they cluster during periods of turmoil over the last 150 million years, times of dramatic cooling or warming or widespread extinction. Genome duplication appears to allow plants to survive extreme environmental stress. For NPR News, I'm Ari Daniel.
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Lakshmi Singh
I'm Lakshmi Singh, NPR News.
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