Thursday, April 11, 2024
The 7
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🗓️ 11 April 2024
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Thursday briefing: Trump criticizes Arizona’s abortion ban; ‘gun show loophole’; Dexter Reed; Masters rain delay; and more
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| 0:00.0 | Donald Trump criticized Arizona's abortion ban. |
| 0:07.0 | Inflation is back on the rise. |
| 0:09.6 | And a consumer watchdog said it found concerning levels of lead in lunchables. |
| 0:15.0 | That's some of what we'll get to on the Seven from the Washington Post. |
| 0:18.2 | I'm Hannah Jewel. |
| 0:19.4 | It's Thursday, April 11th. |
| 0:21.2 | Let's get you caught up with today's seven stories. Number one, Donald |
| 0:29.0 | Trump said Arizona's abortion ruling went too far. |
| 0:33.0 | On Tuesday, Arizona's Supreme Court revived a near total abortion ban. |
| 0:38.0 | The ruling came just a day after Trump had said that abortion laws should be decided by individual states. But yesterday, Trump said that Arizona's |
| 0:46.2 | ban and a similar ban in Florida would be changed, and that, quote, everyone wants that to happen. |
| 0:53.0 | He also said that he wouldn't sign a national abortion ban. |
| 0:57.0 | This is shaping up to be one of the trickiest issues |
| 0:59.2 | for Republicans ahead of November's election. |
| 1:02.0 | Trump has faced criticism from some conservatives for his state's rights approach, |
| 1:06.5 | and abortion bans have been politically damaging for Republicans |
| 1:09.8 | since the fall of Roe v. Wade in 2022. |
| 1:13.0 | Number two, inflation ticked up again last month. |
| 1:21.0 | Yesterday, new government figures showed that prices rose 3.5% from March |
| 1:26.3 | 2023 to March 2024. That's up slightly from February. And the uptick is confusing economists. The Federal Reserve has hiked interest rates |
| 1:35.9 | over the past couple of years in a bid to tackle rising prices. But that strategy doesn't seem |
| 1:40.9 | to be working. It means that the Federal Reserve is very |
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