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What economic agenda did President Trump highlight during his South Texas visit?
President Trump traveled to South Texas Friday to tout his economic agenda. As NPR's Frank Cordonia reports, the visit comes just days ahead of a critical Republican primary election.
President Trump visited Corpus Christi where he touted his drill baby drill agenda.
So we're witnessing a historic American energy boom like we've never seen and this port is right at the center of the action.
But his speech was somewhat overshadowed by the heated Republican primary elections in the state. Senator John Cornyn is trying to win his fifth term in the Senate, but is being challenged by State Attorney General Ken Paxton and Representative Wesley Hunt in a rough primary fight. Trump gave shout-outs to all three Republicans during his speech, but he stopped short of endorsing one in the race.
Franco Ordonez, NPR News. Former President Bill Clinton answered questions for more than six hours Friday about his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Clinton told members of the House Oversight Committee that his friendship with Epstein ended long before Epstein's initial conviction in 2008. After the testimony, Republican Representative James Comer of Kentucky says they'll now release videos of the deposition and transcripts of both Bill and Hillary Clinton once they're reviewed by attorneys.
I think we learned some things. We were hoping to get more, but there were many questions, as you will see, hopefully in the next 24 hours when the videos were released, that there were a lot of very specific questions about very specific documents and correspondence that were subpoenaed that we got from the Department of Justice as well as the Epstein estate.
OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, says it's getting $110 billion in fresh funding to meet demand for artificial intelligence. As NPR's John Ruich reports, the money comes from some of the biggest companies in tech.
The investments include $30 billion from the chipmaker NVIDIA, another $30 billion from the Japanese investment company SoftBank, and $50 billion from Amazon. OpenAI says in a statement the partnerships expand its global reach, deepen its infrastructure, and strengthen its balance sheet. Concerns about disruption from AI and the profitability of AI companies have rattled stock markets in recent weeks. Tech companies have hauled in hundreds of billions of dollars to develop AI, but some critics say the return on investment is unclear. OpenAI says bigger is better, and the leader in AI will have scale that requires money and customers. It says ChatGPT already has more than 900 million weekly users.
and over 50 million subscribers. John Rewich, NPR News.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, meanwhile, says the company has reached an agreement with the Defense Department to use its models on the Pentagon's classified network. That comes after Anthropix AI was removed Friday from a similar role with Defense Department. You're listening to NPR News. President Trump says he's not happy with the outcome of the latest talks with Iran over its nuclear program. But in comments Friday, he said he'll give negotiators more time to reach a deal. The latest round of indirect talks ended in Geneva on Friday. Trump has been threatening military action against Iran if it does not agree to a deal that drastically curtails its nuclear ambitions. A major cattle vaccination effort is underway in South Africa where an outbreak of foot and mouth disease is ongoing.
Officials say some 300,000 cattle are infected and 17,000 farms are involved. The government has declared a national disaster. The outbreak is threatening the country's meat and dairy exports. One of the early stars of 1950s and 60s rock and roll has died at the age of 86. Steve Futterman looks back at his career.
Neil Sedaka's first number one hit was Breaking Up Is Hard To Do. There would be other hits, Calendar Girl and Oh Carol, written for his one-time girlfriend, Carole King. When the British invasion hit, Sadeka's career suffered.
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