Good morning. El Niño, the natural climate pattern that brings warmer weather, is here. This is how it will affect America. Here's what else we're following today.
Former President Trump has been indicted on federal chargesfor mishandling classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago resort. He's due in court in Miami next Tuesday and faces seven counts, including willful retention of information related to national defense and obstruction.
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🎧 Former DOJ officials — including some that worked for Trump — have said that his refusal to hand over the documents made it hard not to indict him, according to NPR's Carrie Johnson. She reports on Up First this morning that this federal case is legally more serious than Trump's indictment in March and would carry more significant penalties.
➡️ Trump's indictment raises questions for his 2024 run for president. Here are four takeaways to think aboutto make sense of it all.
The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Black voters yesterday, unexpectedly upholding a 1965 Voting Rights Act provision that prohibits racial gerrymandering. The court said Alabama's congressional map drawn by a GOP legislature is unconstitutional, and state lawmakers now must redraw congressional district lines.
The air quality remains unsafe for millions of Americans due to Canadian wildfire smoke. Forecasters predict New England and the Mid-Atlantic areas will see relief today, but wind patterns could worsen the air for the Midwest and the South. Here's what you need to know about when conditions will improve in your area.
🎧 Toxic air quality is a daily reality for millions of people worldwide. On Morning Edition, journalists Eyder Peralta in Mexico City, Anthony Kuhn in Seoul and Shalu Yadav in New Delhi report how people have learned to combat and live with air pollution.
The Red Cross evacuated nearly 300 children from an orphanage in Sudan this week. More than 60 children — most of them infants — died in the weeks after fighting erupted between Sudan's military and a militia force, according to UNICEF. UNICEF's deputy representative in Sudan told NPR's Aya Batrawy that the Mygoma orphanage was understaffed because many carers had fled with their families.
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When He Jiankui announced he had created the first gene-edited babies almost five years ago, the news shocked the world and landed him in jail. Critics said he violated medical ethics and compared him to Dr. Frankenstein. Now, he's back in the lab.
Check out what NPR is watching, reading and listening to this weekend:
🍿 Movies: In Past Lives, Grace Lee plays a writer who lives in New York City with her husband and meets a man she knew as a girl in South Korea. She talks about how language and identity are intertwined on All Things Considered.
📺 TV: Never Have I Ever'sMaitreyi Ramakrishnan talks about how her character, Devi Vishwakumar, has evolved on Morning Edition. The fourth and final season is available on Netflix.
🎵 Music: Janelle Monáe wants you to stop thinking and start feeling when you listen to her latest album, The Age of Pleasure.
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Longtime NPR correspondent Wade Goodwyn has died of cancer at 63. His friend and former coworker Rick Holter pays tribute to him, writing that Goodwyn's voice "defined Texas for NPR listeners across the country and the globe." (via KERA)
Researchers have discovered that octopuses can edit their genetic information to resculpt their brains in response to environmental changes.
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