Dale Willman

He was 86 years old.

His many hits from the 60s and 70s included Calendar Girl, O'Carroll, and Breaking Up Is Hard to Do.

He also wrote songs for dozens of artists, including Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley.

Sedaka kept performing dozens of concerts a year well into his 80s.

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and Israel have announced an attack against Iran, and Israel is preparing for retaliation from that country, as NPR's Daniel Estrin reports from Tel Aviv.

President Trump Friday ordered all government agencies to stop using Anthropix AI technology, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says it's designating the company as a supply chain risk, which could prevent military vendors from working with it.

Empire's Jeff Brumfield says the action came after Anthropix expressed concern about how its AI might be used.

OpenAI, meanwhile, says it now has a deal for its AI to be used by the Pentagon.

Stock of the financial technology company Block has risen more than 20 percent in after-hours trading.

After the company's CEO announced he was laying off 4,000 of Block's 10,000 employees, Jack Dorsey says using AI, the company can now do more and do it more efficiently.

Former President Bill Clinton wrapped up more than six hours of testimony in front of the House Oversight Committee Friday.

The committee is investigating Jeffrey Epstein.

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A new federal study shows coal-fired power plants released more air pollution last year than in the past.

NPR's Rebecca Herscher reports that the Trump administration explicitly allowed pollution from the plants to increase.

Fighting is underway between Pakistan and Afghanistan.