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A major cattle vaccination effort is underway in South Africa where an outbreak of foot and mouth disease is ongoing.

Officials say some 300,000 cattle are infected and 17,000 farms are involved.

The government has declared a national disaster.

The outbreak is threatening the country's meat and dairy exports.

One of the early stars of 1950s and 60s rock and roll has died at the age of 86.

Steve Futterman looks back at his career.

Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Willman.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has declared the AI firm Anthropic as a risk to national security.

As NPR's Jeff Brumfield reports, it's an unusual decision that could hurt the company's business.

In a statement Friday, Anthropic says it plans to sue the Trump administration and that, quote, no amount of intimidation or punishment from the Department of War will change our position.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, meanwhile, says his company now has an agreement with the Defense Department to use its models on the Pentagon's classified network.

He made that announcement in a social media post.

President Trump was in Texas on Friday where he talked about energy.

He said he was standing in front of a ship that contained crude oil from Venezuela and said Texas is at the center of an American energy boom.

While in Texas, Trump also refused to endorse any of the three Republican candidates running in a primary election in that state on Tuesday.

The Justice Department has indicted 30 more people who allegedly took part in a demonstration last month protesting ICE inside a Minnesota church.

Attorney General Pam Bondi announced the indictments on Friday.

As NPR's Meg Anderson reports, 39 people have now been charged in relation to the protests.

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The World Health Organization is recommending an update to next year's flu vaccine to include strains that drove a surge of cases this year.