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This is NPR News Now. The latest headlines every hour. Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. A judge is ordering Tennessee officials to preserve evidence connected to the failed execution of Krista Pike by lethal injection last week. Pike would have been the first woman executed in Tennessee in nearly 200 years, but she survived. Pike's attorney said she woke up in the hospital, angry and confused. Tony Gonzalez, of member station WP. PLN reports.

Nashville judge Aisha Miles ordered prison officials to preserve medical supplies, remnants of the drug pentobarbital, and communications about their decision-making on the night of Krista Pike's scheduled execution. After Pike's legal team argued she deserves visitation similar to her time in prison, Miles also granted them more access to her in the hospital. The same protocols that would have been followed while she is incarcerated at the women's prison should be followed there. Pike was unconscious for more than five days following the botched execution, but her attorneys say she is now able to speak. For NPR News, I'm Tony Gonzalez in Nashville. Pike's execution was the second to fail in Tennessee this year in Texas. The authorities carried

out an execution tonight using the same lethal injection drug that Pike survived. President Trump says he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize, despite starting an ongoing war with Iran. The award will be announced this Friday. Here's NPR Assembly Fang reporting. Trump argues that he should be recognized for stopping Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. I did things that nobody else has ever done. I'm not bragging. I'm just telling you the facts. Trump has criticized the Nobel Prize Committee in the past for giving former President Barack Obama a peace prize, but not him. He also said he'd quote, indirectly won the prize after last year's recipient, Venezuelan opposition activist Maria Corina Machado, gave Trump the award medal. And she gave it to me and I said, wow, what an honor.

I settled eight wars. Another one is coming. Another war or another award? The president did not specify what you meant by that. Emily Fang and Peer News, the White House. New polling shows support for Medicare for all is the highest. It's been in at least a decade. Kate Wells with our partner, KFF Health News, reports from Lansing, Michigan. If you go to one of Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed's town halls in Michigan, you will hear the crowd chant the campaign slow. Logan. Money out of.

Politics. Money in your. Market. Medicare for all. There it is. Two and three Americans now say they favor Medicare for all, according to polling from KFF, a health policy research organization. But many of them don't actually know what it means, and that support fluctuates based on what pollsters told them about it. Medicare for all usually means a single insurance program run by the federal government that replaces or radically changes private insurance. opponents argue that Medicare for all would raise taxes and could lead to treatment delays. Kate Wells reporting from KFF Health News. This is NPR.

An 18-year-old accused of planning an attack at Minnesota's Mall of America made his initial court appearance today. A federal complaint says Shigduna Abd al-Ali-Mohmahmohad was arrested Tuesday in a public park after he paid $600 to an undercover FBI employee for an AK-47. and 200 rounds of ammunition. Muhammad is accused of repeatedly telling a confidential informant that he wanted to kill non-Muslims. Tropical stormy Saeis could become the first hurricane of the Atlantic season. Forecaster Sae Sias is gaining strength off of eastern Mexico. A remarkable Jurassic fossil of an ancient mammal has surfaced in Inter-Mongolia.

It's about 165 million years old, and NPR's Ari Daniel reports it contains the earliest signs of a couple of familiar traits. The fossils the size of a chihuahua and a bit of a mutt. Its back end resembles a platypus, but its sharp teeth suggest it was a predator. Imaging revealed a delicate roof of the mouth and bones that supported a tongue.

These rarely preserved features allowed University of Chicago paleontologist Jeu She Lua and his colleagues to conclude it was likely able to chew and swallow, and suckle, traits unique to mammals. All there in Huang remarkable fossil.

Luo says it's the oldest evidence of chewing and swallowing and suckling, pushing the origin of these evolutionary innovations and their presence among our ancient mammalian relatives deeper into the past. Ari Daniel, NPR News. And I'm Jail Snyder. This is NPR News.