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Rylan Barton
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton. President Trump heads to China tomorrow, and he's taking a sizable business delegation with him, including some of the biggest names in corporate America. NPR's John Ruich reports this. A relative calm in the U. S. China trade relationship.
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John Ruich
According to the White House, more than A dozen top US executives will be on the trip this week, including Apple's Tim Cook, Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg, and Elon Musk of Tesla and SpaceX fame. Musk also co led Trump's Department of Government Efficiency early in his second term. There are financiers in the group, too, from BlackRock, Blackstone, Citigroup and Goldman Sachs. This trip will be the first to China by a US President since Trump visited during his first term nearly nine years ago. And while geopolitics loom large, especially the war in Iran, the parade of executives signals an interest in promoting business and potentially striking deals despite a festering trade war. John Ruich, NPR News, Washington.
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Rylan Barton
The Treasury Department wants US Banks to monitor suspected Iranian money laundering networks. These networks allegedly use funds to smuggle sanctioned oil through shell companies and crypto networks. The US And Iran are at an impasse over ending the war. With the ceasefire growing shaky. President Trump said the ceasefire is on life support after rejecting Tehran' latest proposal. The Supreme Court has paved the way for Alabama to eliminate a congressional district that's represented by a black Democrat for this year's midterm election. As NPR's Hansi Lo Wang reports, the ruling comes as Republican officials push to redraw Alabama's congressional districts after the Supreme Court further limited the Voting Rights Act.
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Hansi Lo Wang
Republican state officials in Alabama had lost a legal fight last year over the state's congressional map after finding that a proposed map by state lawmakers intentionally discriminated against black voters. A lower federal court ruled Alabama should keep using a court drawn map to get in line with the Voting Rights Act. That map includes two districts where black voters in Alabama have a real sick opportunity to elect their preferred candidate. But after the Supreme Court recently weakened the Voting Rights Act's protections against racial discrimination and redistricting, Alabama Republicans asked the justices to speed up their consideration of whether to review their state's congressional map again. The high court agreed and has thrown out the lower court ruling that required Alabama to use its current map for this year's midterms. Onsila Wong, NPR News.
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Rylan Barton
A substantial number of Americans doubt the legitimacy of recent attempts against President Trump's life. That's according to a NewsGuard YouGov poll released today. It finds that 30% of Americans think at least one of those incidents was staged. Trump has been the subject of three assassination attempts over the last two years. The findings come weeks after a gunman attempted to storm the White House correspondence dinner, which Trump attended. In the weeks since, a wave of misinformation around the event has spread online. US Stocks inched up to new records today. The S&P 500 and Dow both rose less than a quarter of a percent. The Nasdaq added a fraction of a percent. This is NPR News from Washington. A Washington based nonprofit is suing to stop the Trump administration from altering the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. The project's cost surged from President Trump's initial promise of $1.8 million to $13.1 million. The cultural landscape foundation says the administration's plan to paint the pool bottom American flag blue violates federal preservation laws. The family of one of the two people killed in a shooting at Florida State University last year suing Open AI Douglas Soul of member station WUSF reports the alleged shooter consulted with ChatGPT before the attack.
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Douglas Sowell
Tchaba was a 45 year old father of two when he was shot and killed. His family's legal team says there weren't enough safeguards on ChatGPT when the gunman asked it questions like how many victims it would take to make the news and the busiest time at the student union building where the shooting took place. Attorney Robbie Bell calls it a landmark case.
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Rylan Barton
Our job as lawyers for the Chaba family and for the public is to make a wrong a right and to try to prevent this from ever happening again.
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Douglas Sowell
Lawyers also allege the chatbot inflamed and encouraged the accused shooter's delusions leading up to the violence. OpenAI says ChatGPT is not responsible for the shooting and that it provided factual responses with information that can be found across the Internet. For NPR News, I'm Douglas Sowell in Tallahassee.
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Rylan Barton
A pediatrician's group has put out new guidance about recess, saying it's crucial for good health and grades. The statement by the American Academy of Pediatrics comes after years of shrinking breaks between lessons and worsening children's health. This is NPR News from Washington.
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