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At the moment’s prime tales
The GOP-led Senate returns from recess in the present day with hopes to go laws to enact a multi-trillion-dollar finances plan in a number of weeks. The proposed plan carries the majority of President Trump’s home coverage agenda, which incorporates tax cuts and sweeping modifications to protection, vitality and immigration coverage. Congressional Republicans need the invoice on the president’s desk by July 4. To perform this, they’re going to have to navigate an extended record of competing calls for.
FILE—In a present of Republican unity, Speaker of the Home Mike Johnson, R-La., left, and Senate Majority Chief John Thune, R-S.D., make statements to reporters forward of vote within the Home to go a invoice on President Donald Trump’s prime home priorities of spending reductions and tax breaks, on the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, April 10, 2025. Now that the invoice has handed the Home, Thune and Senate Republicans can afford to lose solely three Republican senators and nonetheless go the Trump’s spending plan. (AP Photograph/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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- 🎧 Senate Republicans can solely afford to lose three votes to get the plan throughout the end line, and a few senators are already elevating points with it, NPR’s Claudia Grisales tells Up First. Powerful negotiations are anticipated partially due to the invoice’s provisions to carry the federal debt restrict, which have to be accomplished by this summer season to keep away from a monetary default. Grisales has been knowledgeable that 60% or extra of the invoice will keep intact. Medicaid, which is going through deep cuts, is probably going the largest struggle Senate Republicans will face.
A person is in custody after quite a few folks collaborating in a stroll and vigil for Israeli hostages being held by Hamas had been attacked and burned at an occasion in Boulder, Colo., yesterday. Authorities say the person, recognized as 45-year-old Mohamed Sabry Soliman, yelled “free Palestine” earlier than utilizing a makeshift flame-thrower. A number of folks had been hospitalized, and Soliman is anticipated to face expenses.
- 🎧 The assault has shaken and horrified the Jewish neighborhood in Boulder, Megan Verlee of member station Colorado Public Radio says. The group that was attacked was referred to as Run for Their Lives. Eight folks had been injured, one in every of whom was a Holocaust survivor. Authorities say Soliman is believed to have acted on his personal. Colorado’s governor and legal professional normal have condemned this act as a hate crime. Stefanie Clarke, a pacesetter of Cease Antisemitism Colorado, says, “The rationale issues like this are occurring is that we’ve allowed this local weather of hate to fester.”
A brand new spherical of Russian-Ukrainian peace talks is anticipated in the present day in Istanbul, Turkey. The assembly comes a day after Ukraine hit Russia with a collection of distant drone strikes on navy air bases deep inside Russian territory. Ukraine was capable of smuggle drones deep into Russia by hiding them within the tops of flatbed vehicles, which parked close to navy bases earlier than the drones lifted off to assault planes on the runway. Russia additionally launched over 470 drones and missiles over the weekend at targets throughout Ukraine.
- 🎧 NPR’s Charles Maynes says Russia usually presents itself because the one dictating the phrases within the peace talks. Russia takes on this position resulting from its stronger navy place. Trump basically agrees with Russia’s place, saying Ukraine must make main concessions. Nonetheless, Sunday’s assault reveals that Ukraine has some playing cards to play militarily, Maynes says.
- ➡️ Trump has promised peace in Ukraine. This is how his efforts have fared.
Deep dive
Feminine physician giving the coronavirus vaccine to a younger pregnant girl. Antibodies, immunize inhabitants. negative effects, danger folks, antibodies, new regular, covid-19.
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Well being and Human Companies Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has eliminated the COVID vaccine from the record of vaccines beneficial for wholesome pregnant ladies. Nonetheless, current tips from the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention and different researchers nonetheless categorize pregnant ladies as a high-risk group that ought to obtain booster pictures. The science backs up the researchers.
- 🤰 Pregnant ladies who contracted COVID had been extra prone to expertise extreme sickness and hospitalization in comparison with ladies of the identical age and demographic who weren’t pregnant.
- 🤰 Being pregnant makes ladies 5 instances extra prone to have blood clots, and that danger is elevated in the event that they contract COVID. Irritation and blood clots within the placenta could possibly be related to an elevated danger of stillbirth.
- 🤰 Getting the vaccine whereas pregnant helps shield newborns after start. In response to the CDC, almost 90% of infants who had been hospitalized with COVID-19 had moms who did not get the vaccine whereas pregnant.
Residing higher
Jessica Slice together with her two youngsters.
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Residing Higher is a particular collection about what it takes to remain wholesome in America.
After she was recognized with postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, an autonomic nervous system dysfunction, Jessica Slice embraced a brand new id: an individual with a incapacity. Changing into disabled radically altered her life in methods which can be each difficult and empowering. Then she grew to become a mother. Slice’s ebook, Unfit Dad or mum: A Disabled Mom Challenges An Inaccessible World, discusses her expertise as a mum or dad with a incapacity and embracing interdependence. NPR spoke with Slice about her perspective, which may profit all mother and father.
- ❤️ Slice says she would not stress herself or her youngsters to get all the things proper. She’s OK with life not being good.
- ❤️ She would not observe developmental milestones for her youngsters. Releasing management or a way that we should always align with sure timelines as a lot as potential has offered her a way of freedom.
- ❤️ Individuals with disabilities have typically been excluded from or do not have entry to inclusive sexual training, and a few are sometimes endorsed to not reproduce. Slice says folks should not assume she would not get pleasure from her life due to her incapacity, so they need to additionally not assume {that a} little one would not get pleasure from their life both if born with a incapacity.
3 issues to know earlier than you go
Stephanie Case received an ultramarathon race in Wales, operating greater than 60 miles over tough terrain — and stopping 3 times to breastfeed her 6-month-old child, Pepper.
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- Stephanie Case went viral after sitting down 3 times throughout a 100-kilometer race in Wales to breastfeed her six-month-old daughter. The brand new mother not solely completed the race but additionally positioned first among the many ladies.
- A memorial and jazz funeral in Louisiana on Saturday honored 19 Black Individuals whose stays had been not too long ago repatriated from Germany, the place they’d been used for racial analysis within the late 1800s.
- Survivor and its passionate fan base celebrated 25 years over the weekend. Amongst them is NPR producer Mia Venkat and her buddy group, who recreate their very own model of the truth TV present yearly, full with cutthroat competitors and brutal blindsides.
This article was edited by Suzanne Nuyen.
