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America’s employers a delivered a surprising 115,000 new jobs last month despite an economic shock from the Iran war.

OUT CUE: Correspondent Bernie Bennett reporting.

VERBATIM: Hiring was better than the 65,000 that economists had expected, though it decelerated from the 185,000 jobs created in March.

The unemployment rate remained at a low 4.3%. The war has caused the biggest disruption of global oil supplies in history and sent average U.S. gasoline prices surging past $4.50 a gallon this week.

But the conflict hasn’t done much damage to the American job market so far.

WASHINGTON (AP) – U.S. jobless claim applications rose last week but remain at historically low levels despite elevated inflation and other economic headwinds. More from Bernie Bennett.

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The previous week’s new claims figure, which was the fewest since 1969, was revised up by 1,000 to 190,000.

Weekly filings for unemployment benefits are considered a proxy for U.S. layoffs and are close to a real-time indicator of the health of the job market.

Lawmakers in several southern states are meeting this week to consider redistricting plans in response to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that weakened the Voting Rights Act.

OUTCUE: That’s reporter Bernie Bennett.

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The Supreme Court restores access to an abortion pill through telehealth, mail and pharmacies. Bernie Bennett reports.

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Those rules had been in effect for several years until a federal appeals court imposed new restrictions last week.

The majority of abortions in the U.S. are obtained through medications, usually a combination of mifepristone and a second drug, misoprostol.

The availability of those drugs has blunted the impact of abortion bans that most Republican-led states have sought to enforce since a 2022 Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade.

Bernie Bennett reporting.

The Supreme Court restores access to an abortion pill through telehealth, mail and pharmacies. Bernie Bennett reports.

VERBATIM:

Those rules had been in effect for several years until a federal appeals court imposed new restrictions last week.

The majority of abortions in the U.S. are obtained through medications, usually a combination of mifepristone and a second drug, misoprostol.

The availability of those drugs has blunted the impact of abortion bans that most Republican-led states have sought to enforce since a 2022 Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade.

Bernie Bennett reporting.

A federal judge on Monday decried the prison treatment of President Donald Trump’s alleged would-be assassin, and apologized to him for restrictive confinement imposed by jail staff.

VERBATIM: Cole Allen has been in federal custody since prosecutors say he attempted to crash the White House Correspondents’ Dinner and kill President Trump along with other high-level government officials.

Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui told a Department of Corrections attorney that he was “fascinated and disturbed” by Allen’s treatment in jail. Allen was placed on suicide watch when he was first imprisoned.

Prosecutor Jocelyn Ballantine reasoned that since Allen told investigators he did not expect to survive the alleged attack, he could be a danger to himself.

Bernie Bennett, Washington.

Recent data shows a sizable income gap between Americans and their British counterparts. Correspondent John Scott reports.

VERBATIM:Per capita income in the United States is 90-thousand dollars – about 60 percent higher than in the United Kingdom, where it stands at roughly 57-thousand-600. Economists say higher income can point to a stronger economy and higher living standards, though it doesn’t factor in costs like housing or healthcare. The gap highlights America’s stronger overall economic output and productivity compared to Britain.

Christians in Iraq are still having trouble

VERBATIM:  According to a new analysis by England’s  All-Party Parliamentary Group for International Freedom of Religion or Belief, Iraqi believers still face violent persecution and repression, years after ISIS was finally expelled from the country.  Christians living in the Kurdistan region are doing pretty well, but elsewhere in the country they are still being victimized by their Muslim neighbors.  Christians make up just about three percent of Iraq’s population.  MH REPORTING

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