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Chapter 1: What is Vice President J.D. Vance's role in promoting peace in the South Caucasus?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. Vice President J.D. Vance is in the former Soviet Republic of Armenia, the first ever visit by a sitting U.S. vice president to the country. The trip comes as part of a wider swing through the South Caucasus to promote a U.S.-backed peace initiative between Armenia and Azerbaijan, as NPR's Charles Mains reports.
Addressing journalists in the capital Yerevan, Vance said a proposed transit corridor between Armenia and Azerbaijan would unlock the region's potential.
It is going to open up a whole new world of trade, transit, and energy flows in this region of the world.
Billed as the Trump route for international peace and prosperity, the corridor seeks to reinforce efforts to end decades of war between the South Caucasus' rivals and eventually facilitate U.S. access to critical minerals further east. Vance also announced new trade deals with Armenia in nuclear energy, advanced computer chips and drones.
Chapter 2: How is the Trump administration addressing veteran homelessness in Los Angeles?
The growing U.S. role comes at the expense of the region's traditional power broker Russia, currently bogged down by its war in Ukraine. Charles Mainz, NPR News.
The Trump administration is fighting a court order to create housing for homeless veterans in L.A. NPR's Quill Lawrence reports.
Los Angeles has the country's most homeless veterans, and homeless vets won a class action lawsuit in federal court two years ago ordering the V.A. to build housing inside the huge V.A. campus in West L.A. The Biden administration appealed, but the vets won again in the 9th U.S. Circuit last year.
Chapter 3: What were the reactions to AI advertisements during the Super Bowl?
Now the Trump administration is appealing that ruling. Mark Rosenbaum is a lawyer for the plaintiffs.
Now this administration owns veteran homelessness. It's fighting our nation's veterans. It's going to a federal court and saying that veterans, unhoused disabled veterans cannot call upon their government to house unhoused veterans on veteran property.
The Departments of Justice and VA declined to comment. Quill Lawrence, NPR News.
The Super Bowl featured several ads for AI companies, but as NPR's John Ruich reports, some of them didn't sit well with viewers.
OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, had an ad about its computer coding assistant. Google ran one that showed AI making realistic images.
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Chapter 4: Why is there a rise in measles outbreaks across several states?
Meta showed off its Oakley AI glasses. And Anthropic, which makes a chatbot called Claude, took a dig at OpenAI, which recently started testing ads in ChatGPT.
Hey, can I get a six-pack quickly? Perfect. That is a clear and achievable goal. But confidence isn't just built in the gym. Try Step Boost Max, the insoles that add one vertical inch of height and help short kings stand tall.
None of those or any of the others that focused on or used AI did particularly well with viewers. That's according to USA Today's ad meter ratings. The top ad there was for Budweiser, and it featured a Clydesdale horse and a bald eagle.
Chapter 5: What impact has the Trump administration had on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau?
John Rewich, NPR News.
And you're listening to NPR News from Washington. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz is urging people to get inoculated against the measles as outbreaks continue across several states. Outbreaks in South Carolina, Texas, Utah, and Arizona have mostly impacted children.
Infectious disease experts warn that rising public distrust of vaccines generally may be contributing to the spread of the disease. Consumer advocates and Democrats say the Trump administration's sidelining of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has cost Americans $19 billion in lost financial relief. The administration argues the bureau has become too large.
Since the administration took control in February, few new investigations have been opened and several enforcement actions have been dropped. Over the weekend, a gray wolf ventured into Los Angeles County. As NPR's Nate Rott reports, it's the first time a wolf has been seen there in at least 100 years.
Chapter 6: What does the sighting of a gray wolf in Los Angeles County signify?
The three-year-old female wolf, known as BEY03F, catchy name, huh, has black fur and reached the mountains north of Santa Clarita around 6 a.m. on Saturday. Biologists with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife were able to track her using a GPS collar they put on her last spring. Gray wolves used to live in L.A.
County and much of North America before being extirpated by European settlers. In California and other parts of the U.S., they're slowly recolonizing ground and are protected in most states under the Endangered Species Act. Those protections, though, are the subject of an ongoing debate with congressional Republicans and the Trump administration looking to have them removed. Nate Rott, NPR News.
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