Ryland Barton

There's an AI Jesus that for $1.99 a minute will offer words of prayer and encouragement.

Many people are reckoning with how these technologies shape their relationships to faith and spiritual guidance.

Some worry about AI's potential to exploit religious users, while others see it as a tool for spiritual exploration.

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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he's authorized negotiations with Lebanon aimed at disarming Iranian-backed Hezbollah militants and establishing relations between the countries.

The nations have technically been at war since Israel was established in 1948.

Meanwhile, President Trump posted on social media that Iran is doing a very poor job of allowing oil through the Strait of Hormuz, and it is, quote, not the agreement we have.

As NPR's Daniel Estrin reports, after more than a month of war, Iran is feeling emboldened.

The regime is still there.

NPR's Daniel Estrin reporting, a California court has unsealed the secret warrants that a sheriff used to seize hundreds of thousands of ballots.

The warrants raise questions as to whether the sheriff's investigation is valid.

From member station KVCR, Madison Aument reports.

A private investigator accused of orchestrating a hacking campaign against U.S.

climate activists has been extradited to the U.S.,

NPR's Michael Copley reports the hacking was allegedly commissioned by a former ExxonMobil lobbyist.

Eligible men between the ages of 18 and 25 will automatically be registered into the U.S.

military draft pool starting in December.

That's a change from the current requirement to self-register.

The military has not held a draft since 1973 during the Vietnam War.