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Live from NPR News. In Washington, I'm Korva Coleman. The government says consumer prices rose last month by 3.8% on an annualized basis. The report is just out. The increase reflects higher costs triggered by the war. That war is expected to be one of the issues discussed when President Trump travels to China today. NPR's Domenico Montanaro reports on what Americans think of the U S. China relationship in a survey done by NPR in conjunction with Chicago Council on Global affairs and ipsos.
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In two polls over the last few months, there were some notable findings. First, Americans see China on the rise and eyeing a dominant role in the world. 78% say they believe China wants to be a dominant world leader, particularly economically. But respondents also say they want to keep a strong trading relationship with China and they want tariffs lowered to keep costs down for US Consumers. Most also say the Iran war has been bad for both countries and their economies. But more Americans say the war is boosting China's geopolitical position than say it's helping U.S. national security. Domenico Montanaro, NPR News, Washington.
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The U.S. supreme Court is clearing the way for Alabama to eliminate a congressional district represented by a black Democrat ahead of the midterms. NPR's Hansi Lo Wang says this follows the high court's recent ruling limiting the Voting Rights Act.
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Republican state officials in Alabama had lost a legal fight last year over the state's congressional map. After finding that a proposed map by state lawmakers intentionally discriminated against black voters, A lower federal court ruled Alabama should keep using a court drawn map to get in line with the Voting Rights Act. That map includes two districts where black voters in Alabama have a real sick opportunity to elect their preferred candidate. But after the Supreme Court recently weakened the Voting Rights Act's protections against racial discrimination and redistricting, Alabama Republicans asked the justices to speed up their consideration of whether to review their state's congressional map again. The high court agreed and has thrown out the lower court ruling that required Alabama to use its current map for this year's midterms. Han Zi. Lila Wang, NPR News.
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A non profit group is suing the Trump administration over its move to resurface and paint the reflecting pool blue on the National Mall. The the group says there was no federal review of the plan, and the work is already underway. NPR's Anastasia Tsiolkas says President Trump only revealed the plan last month in a
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video the White house posted to YouTube. He said it would be completed in time for the country's 250th anniversary celebrations in July.
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And I said, give me a good price. We can do it for maybe a million and a half to $2 million as opposed to.
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But the New York Times reported yesterday that the project's first final cost could be upwards of $13 million. That's in a no bid contract given to a firm Trump chose, per documents the Times says it obtained.
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NPR's Anastasia Sioukas reporting. This is NPR. The ceasefire is mostly holding between the U.S. and Iran. Another ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon is far more fragile. That is intended to stop the militant group Hezbollah, backed by Iran, from attacking Israel. But the Israeli military is targeting Lebanon. Lebanon's prime minister is asking the US for help in halting these attacks. Several American cruise ship passengers and a British national who were potentially exposed to the rare Hantavirus are being monitored at the University of Nebraska in Omaha. That is the only federally funded quarantine unit in the United States. One patient who tested positive is being housed in at the Nebraska biocontainment unit. New research suggests a brain controlled hearing aid could make it easier for people to communicate in noisy places. NPR's John Hamilton has more on a study in the journal Nature Neuroscience.
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The study used a hearing system that responds to a person's own brain waves. Nima Mescherani of Columbia University says the system detects a special signal produced when the brain is trying to focus on a specific sound.
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That gives us a signature that we can look at someone's brain and then we can decide, oh, yeah, this is the source that they want to listen to.
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When the signal appeared, the system automatically amplified the corresponding voice and filtered out competing voices. Researchers say a hearing aid that works this way could solve a major problem for people with hearing loss, picking out one voice in a crowded room filled with speakers. John Hamilton, NPR News.
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And I'm Korva Coleman, NPR News from Washington.
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