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Chapter 1: What recent events is President Trump addressing at Fort Bragg?
Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. President Trump is honoring members of the special forces who helped seize ex-Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro last month. His visit to Fort Bragg in North Carolina this afternoon was made against the backdrop of high-stakes negotiations with Iran. Trump told the audience of U.S.
service members that USS Gerald Ford is being sent from the Caribbean Sea to the Middle East to join other warships.
We have a situation right now where we sent a very big Carrier group to Iran. I'd love to see if we could make a deal. They've been difficult to make a deal. I thought we would have had a deal last time. They wish they did.
At the Munich Security Conference today, the host, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, advised the Trump administration to repair and embrace the transatlantic alliance.
Even the United States will not be powerful enough to go it alone. Dear friends, being a part of NATO is not only Europe's competitive advantage. It's also the United States' competitive advantage.
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Chapter 2: How is the U.S. government preparing for a potential shutdown?
Merits appear today alongside U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who will address a conference tomorrow. Back home, people across the U.S. are facing another partial government shutdown, possibly. The sticking point, Department of Homeland Security funding expiring at midnight. Here's NPR's Barbara Sprine.
Democrats say they'll only vote to fund DHS if there are significant changes to the department, specifically Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, after two U.S. citizens were fatally shot by officers in Minneapolis. But this shutdown wouldn't mean a shutdown of ICE itself. That agency received over $70 billion in separate funding from Congress last summer.
Lawmakers in both the Senate and House are expected to be out of town next week, but they'll be on notice to return to D.C. if there's a deal. Barbara Sprint, NPR News, Washington.
Members of the administration are drawing criticism for suggesting AI avatars could help address health care shortages in rural America. Here's NPR's Windsor Johnston.
Chapter 3: What role does AI play in addressing healthcare shortages?
As head of Medicare and Medicaid, Dr. Mehmet Oz has been pitching the idea as a way to address chronic staffing shortages in rural communities. Matt Falsman is the co-founder of HoneyHealth, a company that builds AI tools for companies. He says AI could help by taking the pressure off doctors and nurses.
AI can serve as an initial triage or even an early access opportunity for those patients to then get diverted to the right providers.
Critics say using AI to fill gaps in underserved communities risks turning patients into test cases, especially in communities with limited broadband and older populations who may not trust the technology. Windsor Johnston, NPR News, Washington. It's NPR News.
At the Munich Security Conference in Germany, the Russia-Ukraine war is on the agenda. NPR's Mayor Louise Kelly is following.
I would say it is not back burner, but it's not front burner here either. It's definitely on the agenda. President Zelensky is coming. He'll be here. His foreign minister is coming. They're briefing the press.
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Chapter 4: How are critics responding to AI in healthcare?
It's not lost on anyone here. We are four years, as of this month, four years into all-out war. It is not at all clear how the war in Ukraine will end. It is not at all clear that Russia wants to end it. Russia is not here, by the way. Russian officials were not invited.
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly in Munich. The big event at the Winter Olympics in Italy today is figure skating. The men's single event is set. The American figure skater Ilya Melinin, whose nickname, the Quad God, is an overwhelming favorite to win a gold medal.
Chapter 5: What updates are there on the Russia-Ukraine war at the Munich Security Conference?
Steve Futterman reports Melinin is transforming the sport.
Rarely is there a performer who virtually everyone expects to win, but Ilya Melinin is an exception. His ability to leap and twist and turn on the ice is unlike anything the sport has ever witnessed. Paul Wiley is the U.S. silver medalist from the 1992 Winter Games. He says melanin is a once-in-a-lifetime athlete.
Is it his limb length? Is it, you know, the perfect proportion in his body? Is it his strength? Is it his flexibility?
Chapter 6: Who is the standout athlete at the Winter Olympics and what makes them unique?
I mean, it's some combination of all of those things, right?
In his free skate, the 21-year-old is expected to include six to seven quadruple jumps, including possibly a quadruple axel, which has never been successfully performed at the Olympics. For NPR News, I'm Steve Futterman in Milan.
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