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What events are taking place during King Charles and Queen Camilla's visit to New York City?
After a well-received speech to both houses of Congress with a call for democracy and the rule of law, King Charles and Queen Camilla will spend today in New York City, as Bruce Convisor reports.
The royal couple's first stop will be a visit to Ground Zero. 25 years after the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil, the king and queen will attend a wreath-laying ceremony. They'll meet first responders and family members of those who were killed. Mayor Zoran Mamdani has been invited to attend the ceremony, but no private meeting with the king is planned. Security, which is always tight for a royal visit, is expected to be heightened in the aftermath of the weekend shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. Traffic jams are expected from one end of Manhattan to the other. The subway stop at the World Trade Center will be temporarily closed. After the morning ceremony, King Charles will travel up to Harlem to see how a grassroots organization educates young people on urban farming and food security.
For NPR News, I'm Bruce Kahnweiser in New York.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will be on Capitol Hill today. He's appearing before the House Armed Services Committee and will likely be questioned about the Iran war and his firing of top generals and other military leaders. The Supreme Court hears arguments today testing whether the Trump administration can move forward with mass deportations of individuals living and working legally in the U.S. under a law that provides temporary legal status for people unable to return safely to their home countries because of natural disasters, armed conflicts, and other extraordinary and temporary conditions. Here's NPR's Nina Totenberg.
In 1990, Congress enacted a law to establish criteria for selecting, processing, and registering those eligible to remain in the U.S. with vetting and renewal required every 18 months. Currently, 17 countries are designated as covered under the law, but the Trump administration is trying to do away with it, maintaining that under the explicit terms of the statute, its actions simply are not subject to review by the courts. Nina Totenberg, NPR News, Washington.
A rough night in North Texas. Powerful storms hit the Dallas-Fort Worth area, leading officials in the city of Mineral Wells to impose a curfew. Strong winds ripped roofs off homes and flattened buildings late Tuesday. Ryan Dunn is the city's fire chief.
We still have a lot to... look at and see that the damage is going to be in the morning hours. We're going to come back together and we're going to see what we can do for volunteer support at this time. We do not need any volunteer support from the citizens. We're very thankful for the outpouring support that you've already given us.
Dunn says no fatalities have been reported, but at least two people were sent to a hospital. The Texas storms included at least one unconfirmed tornado. This is NPR News. Elon Musk took the stand Tuesday in his lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman. Musk argues that the AI company has effectively abandoned its not-for-profit founding principles and wants Altman out. Here's NPR's John Ruich reporting.
The case hinges on whether OpenAI's founding mission of creating AI as a non-profit for the benefit of humanity has been lost. Musk helped found the company a decade ago, but he left in 2018 amid disagreements with Altman and others about who would run a for-profit arm of the company that would be set up to raise money. Musk testified about his role early on. He says he recruited a key AI researcher and used his contacts at Microsoft and Nvidia to get access to computing power. And he says he wasn't opposed to setting up a for-profit entity, but he wanted control of it. In an opening statement, OpenAI's lead lawyer said the other founders were not okay with one person having control. Musk left, launched a competitor, XAI, and then sued.
The trial is set to run for several more weeks. John Rewich, NPR News, Oakland, California.
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