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The U.S.

Supreme Court has agreed to review the legality of terrorists that President Trump imposed by executive order last spring.

Lower courts have sided with companies that have argued that the import levies will put them out of business.

As NPR's Nina Totenberg reports, the Justice Department appealed.

In defending the legality of the Trump tariffs, the Justice Department noted that other presidents have imposed similar tariffs dating back to 1813.

The question before the Supreme Court, however, is whether those earlier tariffs were as broad as Trump's tariffs, and they pretty clearly were not.

The other question is whether they were authorized by Congress.

NPR's Ina Totenberg reporting.

The Trump administration has released a broad strategy on children's health.

NPR's Allison Aubrey reports that the plan includes a wide range of policy reforms that are aimed at tackling chronic diseases.

Health Secretary Robert F.

Kennedy Jr.

called chronic disease an existential crisis for our country and says the report's 128 recommendations are historic and unprecedented.

The Make America Healthy Again Commission, led by Kennedy, identified four potential drivers, including poor diet, chemical exposure, lack of physical activity, and chronic stress, as well as over-medicalization, which the Commission describes as a concerning trend of over-prescribing medications to children.

Former FDA official Susan Main says there's a wide agreement on the need for action on chronic disease.

But the plan for how to execute it and the resource requirements are actually going the opposite direction.

She points to cuts in nutrition and the Federal Health Department.

Allison Aubrey, NPR News.

French President Emmander Macron has appointed a new Prime Minister, his fifth premier in less than two years.

The Tales from NPR's Eleanor Bierchley.

Sébastien Le Cournu was handed the job of Prime Minister Tuesday evening and the daunting task of trying to find consensus in France's divided parliament.

Le Cournu hails from the mainstream Conservative Party.

Former Prime Minister François Bayroux, a centrist, stepped down after just nine months in office after he was unable to win a confidence vote over his proposed budget cuts.

The far left and far right, who control the biggest blocs in the French parliament, demanded the new Prime Minister be from one of their camps.

They are not likely to be happy about the new nominee.

Le Corneux is said to be close to Macron, Eleanor Beardsley in Pier News, Paris.

Israel has launched a military strike on Hamas leaders gathered in Qatar Tuesday.

Hamas says five members were killed in the attack, occurring during a meeting on a U.S.

ceasefire deal for Gaza.

Qatar calls the attack state terrorism.

President Trump says he's not happy about the incident and will issue a statement on Wednesday.

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Revised reporting on hiring in the U.S.

shows the 2024 job market was much weaker than previously thought.

The Labor Department says the job figures for the year ending March 31st this year were overstated by some 911,000 positions.

The National Park Service says a wild land firefighter has died battling the Dragon Bravo fire near the Grand Canyon.

More from NPR's Kurt Sigler.

The firefighter's name has not been released, but federal fire managers say he died after suffering a cardiac emergency near the entrance to the north rim of the Grand Canyon while doing what's called suppression repair.

That's when crews try to rehab land, like reducing erosion around fire lines, after a fire has raced through it.

The Park Service, in conjunction with the local coroner's office, is investigating the death.

The Dragon Bravo fire was sparked by lightning more than two months ago and has burned some 145,000 acres and destroyed a historic lodge.

Another bigger investigation is focused on whether the National Park Service, hit with staffing and funding cuts from President Trump's Doge team, had adapted.

adequate resources to respond to the fire.

Kirk Ziegler, NPR News.

According to an independent report, the governments of Denmark and Greenland force contraceptives on hundreds of Indigenous women and girls.

Both nations officially apologized last month for their roles in the abuses.

Danish authorities say more than 4,000 Inuit women were fitted with intrauterine devices or given birth control injections by force during the 1960s and 1970s.

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