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Chapter 1: What incident is causing shockwaves in Washington?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Spear. President Trump is claiming ignorance on a story sending shockwaves through Washington. As NPR's Tamara Keith explains, a journalist from The Atlantic was apparently inadvertently added to a group chat where top Trump administration national security officials were discussing planned military action.
Atlantic Magazine's editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg somehow got included in a group chat on the messaging app Signal, where the Secretary of Defense, Secretary of State, National Security Advisor and others were discussing plans for an attack on Houthi rebels in Yemen. When asked about the story and the breach hours after it came to light, President Trump said it was news to him.
Well, it couldn't have been very effective because the attack was very effective, I can tell you that. I don't know anything about it. You're telling me about it for the first time.
Chapter 2: How did the National Security Council react to the group chat breach?
A spokesman for the National Security Council confirms the chat, which broke with longstanding national security protocol, appears to be authentic. Tamara Keith, NPR News.
Chapter 3: What is the Trump administration's plan for the Department of Education?
The Trump administration's plans to shunter to the Department of Education have met the first court challenge. NPR's Alyssa Nadworny reports a group of unions, school districts, and educators filed suit today in federal court, saying the effort to seek to overrule 46 years of congressional decision-making.
The lawsuit comes just a few days after President Trump signed an executive order directing the Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, to, quote, take all steps necessary to facilitate the closure of the department.
Chapter 4: What changes are proposed for federal student loans?
Trump later announced that the Health and Human Services Department would oversee nutrition programs and special education services, and that the Small Business Administration would take over the federal student loan portfolio, which amounts to about $1.6 trillion in debt. The Education Department was formally created by Congress in 1979. And it cannot be closed without Congress's consent.
Alyssa Nadworny, NPR News.
Chapter 5: What are the implications of the incident in Gaza involving the UN?
After an incident in Gaza where U.N. officials say an Israeli tank struck one of its compounds, killing a staffer and wounding five others, the agency says it's reducing its presence there. Israel was denied being behind the explosion March 19th at the U.N. guest house in central Gaza.
Chapter 6: What is the stock market's reaction to the trade war?
Stocks rallied today in hopes a fallout from President Trump's trade war may not be as damaging as had been feared. Here's NPR's Scott Horsley.
Concerns about tariffs and retaliation from U.S. trading partners have been a drag on the stock market in recent weeks, but investors now hope the White House might take a more targeted approach. The Treasury Secretary has said countries that open their own markets to U.S. exports could be spared in the trade war.
A key sign could come next week when the president's promised to unveil additional tariff plans. Trump still sees tariffs as a useful tool, even if they raise costs for domestic consumers and invite a hostile response from other countries. In a social media post, Trump threatened to slap new import taxes on goods from countries that buy oil from Venezuela. Scott Horsley, NPR News, Washington.
The Dow jumped nearly 1.5 percent. The Nasdaq rose more than 2 percent today. You're listening to NPR. If you pay attention to how you look in virtual meetings, but not to how you sound, you may want to think again. And Paris Nell Greenfield Boyce says there's a new study that shows that higher quality audio can create more positive impressions of a speaker.
Cognitive scientists at Yale University made recordings of people speaking in a variety of contexts. Here's one from a job interview scenario.
My tenacious and proactive approach resulted in numerous important contract wins.
Then the researchers altered the recordings to create lower quality versions.
My tenacious and proactive approach resulted in numerous important contract wins.
People who heard the high quality audio were consistently more likely to have favorable impressions of the speaker, seeing them as more intelligent, attractive and convincing. A report on this research appears in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Nell Greenfield Boyce. NPR News.
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