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What recent changes occurred at the Kennedy Center regarding Trump's name?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston. President Trump has recast parts of the nation's capital in his own image and name. Today, that changed at the Kennedy Center, which was forced to strip Trump's name from the building under court order. NPR's Frank Langford reports from Washington, D.C.
Crystal Brewer was among the crowd who came to document the event late Friday. She said removing Trump's name was a way to reclaim a piece of Washington from a president who's tried to put his stamp on the nation's capital.
Checks and balances, accountability. It's about not being able to do something just because you think you're the most powerful person and you can defy the courts.
A federal judge ruled that adding Trump's name to the center was illegal and required congressional approval. Workers draped the facade in tarps early Saturday, which prevented the crowd from documenting the historic reversal.
What are the latest developments in the Iran-U.S. peace talks?
Brewer said she thought it was also an attempt to spare the president further humiliation. Frank Lankford, NPR News, Washington.
Pakistan, which is mediating peace talks between Iran and the United States, has said it expects an agreement to be finalized in the next 24 hours. The Pakistani prime minister said he was prepared for the truce to be signed immediately afterwards. The BBC's Jo Inwood reports.
This is the strongest signal yet that an agreement has been reached. Over the last 48 hours, first the Americans, then the Iranians, and now the Pakistani mediators have said they expect something to be signed this weekend. Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif posted on social media that we are closer to a peace deal than ever before, with finalisation in the next 24 hours. But what he's talking about is not actually a full peace deal, but a memorandum of understanding that would reopen the Strait of Hormuz and most likely begin unfreezing Iranian assets.
That's the BBC's Jo Inwood reporting.
How is the Trump administration impacting AI model usage?
Anthropic says it's taken its latest AI models offline to comply with a directive from the Trump administration. NPR's Matt Bloom reports the decision was made to prevent their use by foreign nationals.
Anthropic says it received the directive from the government on Friday. According to a statement from the company, the Trump administration's letter did not provide specifics of its national security concerns, but the company said it believed it was due to fears about potential security vulnerabilities. The export controls mark the government's most significant step to date to restrict user access to some of the world's most advanced AI products. Fable 5 and Mythos 5 are super powerful models that Anthropic says can work on complex projects and prompts for hours or even days. Anthropic called the order a misunderstanding and said it hopes to restore access to the models as soon as possible. Matt Bloom, NPR News.
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What are the current trends in youth vaping among U.S. students?
middle and high school students vape. While that's down from previous years, e-cigarettes remain the most commonly used tobacco products among teens. Now, some health experts are concerned youth vaping could rise again. The Food and Drug Administration recently gave its first authorization to fruit-flavored vapes marketed to adult smokers trying to quit or cut back on traditional cigarettes. Women in the U.S. are having fewer babies, and a new paper suggests smartphones may be partly responsible. NPR's Scott Horsley reports the birth rate has tumbled more than 20 percent since the iPhone was introduced.
Social scientists have been puzzled by the persistent drop in birth rates over the last two decades. At first, they thought it was a temporary response to the Great Recession. But even after the economy bounced back, births did not.
How are smartphones influencing birth rates in the U.S.?
So economist Caitlin Myers at Middlebury College went looking for other explanations.
When we look for the candidates, we should be looking for things that were large chalk. that started around 2007 and are affecting a lot of people.
When Apple introduced the iPhone in 2007, service was initially limited to AT&T.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What recent changes occurred at the Kennedy Center regarding Trump's name?
0:00–0:56
2
What are the latest developments in the Iran-U.S. peace talks?
0:56–1:58
3
How is the Trump administration impacting AI model usage?
1:58–3:02
4
What are the current trends in youth vaping among U.S. students?
3:02–3:54
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How are smartphones influencing birth rates in the U.S.?
3:54–4:34
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What happened in the U.S. soccer team's recent World Cup game?
4:34–5:04