Americans hit the roads and airports for Memorial Day weekend. Trump targets international student at Harvard. DC double murder investigation. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has today's World News Roundup.
The man suspected of killing two Israeli Embassy employees outside a Jewish museum in D.C. has been charged with two counts of murder, among other crimes. The Trump administration has revoked Harvard University's ability to enroll international students, sowing confusion for those who are already enrolled. Plus, the U.S. Supreme Court said President Trump can fire two members of independent agencies — for now.
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A.M. Edition for May 23. While the court said President Trump can remove independent agency leaders, the ruling found the Federal Reserve is unique, providing some relieft o investors. Plus, major U.S. banks are exploring whether to team up to issue a joint stablecoin. And as BYD beats out Tesla in European sales for the first time ever, we look at how China has been building up its high-tech industries with WSJ’s Brian Spegele. Azhar Sukri hosts.
The Romans were familiar with Africa. At one point, they controlled everything on the north coast of Africa from Morocco to Egypt.
However, below their African territories was the vast Sahara Desert, which was extremely difficult to cross. For all practical purposes, it served as a permeable barrier between the people above and below the desert.
As such, historians have wondered just how much the people above and below the Sahara knew about each other.
Learn more about Rome and Sub-Saharan Africa, and what contact they had with each other on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Ocean Vuong's debut novel On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous placed him in an elite club of American writers. He teaches at NYU and is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, among many other honors. But before all this, the author was raised by working-class Vietnamese immigrant parents in Hartford, Connecticut. Vuong's new novel The Emperor of Gladness takes place in a similar environment and centers on an unlikely friendship between a 19 year-old college dropout named Hai and an 82-year-old with dementia named Grazina. In today's episode, Vuong joins NPR's Ari Shapiro for a conversation about reframing our view of the United States and the American dream, describing ugly things in a beautiful way, and Vuong's experience working in close quarters at a fast food restaurant.
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The Trump administration blocked Harvard University from enrolling foreign students, revoking a certification that allows the school to host non-Americans on certain visas.