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Why is a Venezuelan opposition leader praising President Trump for seizing Maduro?
Live from MPR News in Washington, I'm Shay Stevens. A Venezuelan opposition leader is praising President Trump for seizing the country's former leader Licnos Maduro and Maduro's wife. Maria Karina Machado lauded Trump despite being sidelined in any future US plans for her nation. More from NPR's GaryConn.
Machado has posted little publicly since U.S. Special Forces removed Maduro and his wife. Speaking on Fox News, Machado said she wants to share her Nobel Peace Prize with President Trump. After spending most of the interview exalting Trump, Machado said her opposition party will come to power.
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What were the legal and political consequences of the January 6 attacks mentioned in the report?
Trump broke with Machado following the US military action, backing Maduro's vice president, who has since been appointed Venezuela's new interim leader.
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Five people died of injuries incurred during the January sixth attacks, and more than fifteen hundred detainees were granted full or partial pardons. A plaque mandated by law to honor law enforcement officers who protected members of Congress that day has never been unveiled. NVIDIA is ramping up production of a kind of artificial intelligence chip.
How is NVIDIA’s new H200 AI chip line being sold to China despite previous bans?
That the Trump administration recently approved for sale to China. As NPR's John Brewitz reports, the tech giant says demand is strong. The gyps are called H.
H-200s, their type of graphics processing unit that's widely used to run AI models. The US government had banned them from being sold to China, but last month the Trump administration did an about face, giving NVIDIA a green light to sell H200s to select customers in China. Speaking at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang says Chinese demand is high and the company has fired up its H200 supply chain in anticipation. He says NVIDIA is working out the last licensing issues with the Trump administration. Beijing will also have to approve purchases of the chips by Chinese companies, but Huang says he expects that to happen quietly and orders to flow once the U.S. licensing is worked out.
What does the Trump administration’s plan to purchase Greenland entail?
According to the Wall Street Journal Secretary of State Marco Rubio has told lawmakers that the Trump administration plans to buy Greenland. As the journal reports, Rubio says President Trump's threats to invade Creelin do not indicate any imminent invasion of the Dutch islands. Trump has insisted that Greenland must be captured because of its strategic location. And in order to protect US nationals' security. Convicted spy Aldrich Ames has died at the age of eighty four. The former CIA case officer was responsible for one of the most damaging intelligence breaches in US history. Details from MPR's Giles Snyder
The Bureau of Prisons confirmed Aldra James's death, saying he died Monday in a Maryland prison where he was serving a life sentence without possibility of parole. Ames was a CIA veteran who began passing secrets to Moscow in nineteen eighty five until he was en masse and arrested in nineteen ninety four. His wife Rosario pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting his activities and was sentenced to sixty three months in prison.
Who was CIA spy Aldrich Ames and why is his death highlighted in this episode?
The day before his own sentencing, Ames told the Washington Post that he was motivated by ongoing financial troubles. Ames admitted to being paid a total of two and a half million dollars by Moscow for U.S. secrets. His activities are blamed for the executions of multiple agents working for the West. Kyle Snyder M PR News.
NVIDIA says itself driving auto technology uses OpenAI. Its new family of open source models called Alpameo will power new alternatives and driver assistant veatures. Mercedes Benz will be the first automaker to include NVIDIA AV stack units in its new EVs as soon as this quarter. This is NPR News.
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Chapters
5 chapters
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Why is a Venezuelan opposition leader praising President Trump for seizing Maduro?
0:02–0:50
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What were the legal and political consequences of the January 6 attacks mentioned in the report?
0:50–2:03
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How is NVIDIA’s new H200 AI chip line being sold to China despite previous bans?
2:03–3:01
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What does the Trump administration’s plan to purchase Greenland entail?
3:01–4:01
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Who was CIA spy Aldrich Ames and why is his death highlighted in this episode?
4:01–4:39