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JUDY WOODRUFF: In the day's other news: U.S.
health regulators have extended the expiration
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date on the Johnson & Johnson COVID vaccine
by six weeks. That lengthens the shelf life
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from three months to 4.5, when stored at normal
refrigeration levels. The announcement comes
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after state officials warned that many doses
in storage would expire before the end of
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the month.
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The U.S. Labor Department gave a mixed economic
outlook today. Unemployment claims fell for
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a sixth straight week to a new pandemic low
of 376,000. Meanwhile, consumer prices in
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May increased 5 percent over the past year.
That is the biggest 12-month inflation spike
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since 2008. Higher demand for goods and services
as the economy reopened, coupled with supply
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bottlenecks, have driven that surge.
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There is movement in Washington on infrastructure.
This evening, a group of 10 senators, five
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from each party, announced a bipartisan agreement.
They still need to discuss it with their Senate
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colleagues and with the White House, but this
new plan would add roughly $579 billion in
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new spending.
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President Biden had proposed a $1 trillion
increase. Another Republican group had gone
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only as high as $250 billion.
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A reservoir that serves much of the Western
U.S. has reached a record low level, as the
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region grapples with extreme drought. Levels
at the manmade Lake Mead located in Arizona
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and Nevada on the Colorado River are expected
to continue falling until November. That will
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put more pressure on the region's water supplies
and electric output at the lake's Hoover Dam.
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The U.S. envoy to the United Nations called
today on the Security Council to publicly
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address the conflict in Northern Ethiopia.
Fighting between army and rebel forces has
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ravaged the Tigray region since November.
The U.N. estimates that 350,000 people are
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grappling with food shortages there. And most
of the region's 5.5 million people could face
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famine if the fighting escalates.
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MARIA SANTAMARINA, World Food Program: This
is a region that, even prior to the conflict,
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has been affected by shocks in recent years.
We had the desert locusts this past year,
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hailstorms, some pockets of the region that
are already chronically affected by drought.
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It means that this is an area that is already
a bit on the edge.
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JUDY WOODRUFF: The Ethiopian government has
downplayed the shortages and said that food
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aid is being delivered.
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In Myanmar, a military plane crash has killed
at least 12 people, including a well-known
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senior Buddhist monk. The aircraft went down
in the central Mandalay region, reportedly
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due to bad weather. Army-run TV said that
the plane was on its way to lay the foundation
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for a new monastery.
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Palestinian officials said that Israeli special
forces shot and killed three Palestinians,
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including two military intelligence officers,
during an overnight raid in the occupied West
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Bank. Thousands of mourners joined funeral
processions for the Palestinian officers in
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the towns of Jenin and Nablus. Israeli media
reported that the Israeli forces were arresting
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two operatives from a militant group when
they came under fire.
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The wife of Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El
Chapo" Guzman admitted today in a D.C. federal
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court to helping her husband run his multibillion-dollar
criminal empire. Emma Coronel Aispuro pleaded
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guilty to three federal charges, including
drug trafficking, as part of a plea deal.
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She will be sentenced in September, and could
face life in prison. Her husband is serving
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a life sentence in Colorado.
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And on Wall Street today, stocks shook off
fears of rising inflation. The Dow Jones industrial
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average gained 19 points to close at 34466.
The Nasdaq rose 108 points, and the S&P 500
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added 19 to close at a new record high.
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Still to come on the "NewsHour": we consider
the effect of AIDS on the communities it has
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disproportionately impacted; the new film
"In the Heights" lifts up Latin voices in
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Hollywood; and schools nationwide reconsider
the presence of police among students.
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