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King Charles to address the Congress on Day 2 of the royal visit; Bipartisan bill offers paid family and medical leave to OH workers; Fair trade groups seek big changes in USMCA renegotiation; Florida ranks dead last in teacher pay for the third straight year.

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The Public News Service Tuesday afternoon update.

I'm Mike Clifford.

It's day two of the British Royal's fence-mending visit.

The day started with a ceremonial welcome for King Charles III and Queen Camilla at the White House.

The main event today expected to be King Charles' address to the Congress.

CNN notes the King expected to emphasize the long history of democratic values his country shares with the United States.

Today marks only the second time a British Monarch has addressed the Capitol.

Next, a bipartisan group of Ohio lawmakers is aiming to create a statewide paid family and medical leave program.

Senate Bill 396 offers eligible workers up to 14 weeks of paid leave within a 12-month period.

Democratic State Senator Beth Liston says millions of workers statewide face significant financial challenges when caretaking for a sick family member or after the birth of a new child.

This bill will provide important security for when these critical life events occur, as it has in the 14 other states that have passed a program like this.

Critics argue such a program amounts to government overreach and places a financial burden on businesses, but Liston counters that a new statewide program would be funded through a payroll deduction of 0.4 percent and would help ensure small businesses in particular can better retain their employees.

I'm Katherine Carley.

Meantime, the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade deal is up for renegotiation this July, and fair trade groups are pressing for major changes.

President Donald Trump replaced the North American Free Trade Agreement with the USMCA six years ago during his first term.

But Katie Hedinga with the Rethink Trade Program at the American Economic Liberties Project says the agreement failed to live up to the president's wide-ranging promises.

Trump said the deal would create hundreds of thousands of American jobs, that offshoring would end and U.S. industry would be revitalized, that the deal will fix our giant trade balance.

The USMCA simply has not delivered.

The Trump administration has used fluctuating tariffs to try to improve the trade deficit.

I'm Suzanne Potter.

The nonprofit Trade Justice Education Fund is holding rallies in May and June to draw attention to the trade deal.

And Florida ranks 50th among all U.S. states for average teacher pay for the third straight year, according to a new National Education Association report.

Florida Education Association President Andrew Sparr says the low pay isn't just a number.

He says his own 11th grade daughter has lost teachers mid-year in science, dance, and anatomy because schools couldn't find replacements.

So this has real world implications for our students.

When our students don't have a highly qualified, fully trained, certified teacher in the classroom, they are losing instructional time.

The DeSantis administration is calling Florida the education state and has proposed $1.56 billion for teacher pay raises.

A budget stalemate in Tallahassee leaves the fate of future raises uncertain.

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Native Americans on the western Great Plains were making and tossing dice 6,000 years before people in Africa, Asia, and Europe.

That's according to new research from Colorado State University.

Games of chance are considered to be the intellectual precursor to probability theory, statistics, and scientific thinking.

Report author and Ph.D. student Robert Madden says while trading relationships typically developed over many years, playing dice helped create trust on the spot.

This allowed people that didn't know each other well to come together because they all understood the game and exchange goods on a very fast basis without the need for those long-term relationships.

The earliest examples of dice were found at archaeological sites in Colorado, New Mexico, and Wyoming, dating back 12,000 years to the late Pleistocene Folsom period.

I'm Eric Galatas.

And today is Workers Memorial Day, and labor groups are honoring the 38 Oregon workers who died on the job within the last year.

The day also commemorates the enactment of the Occupational Safety and Health Act, or OSHA, which guarantees the right to a safe workplace.

Graham Traynor, president of the Oregon Labor Federation, AFL-CIO, says every day in the U.S., more than 380 workers are killed due to preventable dangerous working conditions.

The thought that we've solved all of the workplace safety and health issues couldn't be further from the truth.

This day is a really important day each year to remember how much work we still have to do no matter what those numbers in a state or across the country look like.

Although no year has gone by without workplace fatalities yet, Traynor praises Oregon for making workers safer.

In recent years, Oregon has passed laws to protect health care workers from violence, protect people working outside from extreme heat, and increase penalties for OSHA violations.

I'm Isobel Charle.

Finally, as legal challenges mount against the Trump administration's repeal of the 2009 endangerment finding and motor vehicle emission standards, The West Virginia Highlands Conservancy has joined a national lawsuit arguing the change places undue harm to people in West Virginia.

The endangerment finding provides a scientific determination that greenhouse gases endanger public health.

This baseline has provided legal justification for federal action on air pollution, explains Olivia Miller, Interim Director for West Virginia Highlands Conservancy.

That is why we joined this case.

The rollback has no basis in law or science and reality, and the EPA cannot walk away from its responsibility to protect public health.

Vehicle emissions are the largest sources of greenhouse emissions in the country, according to federal data.

This is Nadia Ramlagan for West Virginia News Service.

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