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How is the Trump administration reshaping the U.S. Department of Education through Supreme Court action?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston. The US Supreme Court is allowing President Trump to move ahead with his plans to dismantle the Department of Education. NPR's Corey Turner reports the White House had asked the justices to block a lower court ruling that directed the department to reinstate employees who were fired.
So it all goes back to President Trump's executive order earlier this year, where he instructed Education Secretary Lyndon McMahon to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education. The department offered buyouts and early retirement, and then in March, McMahon ordered a massive reduction in force, laying off roughly 1,400 employees. You do the math, all these moves together cut the department essentially. Eventually in half. And it is in response to these dramatic cuts that two different lawsuits were filed. They were eventually merged together.
That's NPR's Corey Turner reporting.
What is the new plan for U.S. weapons sales to NATO and Ukraine under President Trump?
President Trump says the US will sell American arms to NATO countries, which will then give them to Ukraine. NPR's Greg Myrie reports this is a shift away from Trump's long held opposition to the cost of sending additional US weapons to Ukraine.
Президент Трам се здежмент вон кости ЮС анітін. Ви в мене сиз. Billions of dollars worth of military equipment is going to be purchased from the United States going to NATO. The President says the weapons will include Patriot air defense systems that Ukraine desperately needs to guard against Russian missiles. Ukraine is believed to have fewer than 10 Patriot systems currently and has been pleading for more. Ukraine Greg Myrie, MPR News, Washington.
Why did the Pentagon award $200 million AI contracts to companies like XAI, Google, and OpenAI?
The Trump administration says a contract worth up to two hundred million dollars has been awarded to Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company XAI. NPR's Bobby Allen reports it comes just days after the tech billionaires chatbot spread anti Semitic messages.
The Pentagon says Musk's XAI chatbot, Grok, will be tapped to help modernize the Defense Department. Officials say contracts worth up to $200 million will be issued to Google, Anthropic, OpenAI, and Musk's XAI. According to the contracts, the work involves developing AI models for sectors including national security and healthcare. Groc has been under scrutiny since last week when the chatbot used on Musk's X platform posted anti Semitic remarks and praised Adolf Hitler. It appears Grok's meltdowns stem from instructions given to the chat bot to not be politically correct. Since then, XAI has apologized for the quote, horrific behavior. Musk has said the issue has been fixed, and a new version of the chat bot is now available.
Bobby Allen of PR News
How did the stock market react to recent government and defense news?
At the close on Wall Street, the Dow was up eighty eight points. This is NPR. A fast-moving wildfire has destroyed a historic lodge and a number of other structures on the Grand Canyon's North Rim. The fire was sparked by lightning on the fourth of July and grew rapidly because of high winds and dry conditions. The park says the north rim will be closed for the rest of the season. A new study finds the number of young children accidentally swallowing nicotine products has soared in recent years. NPR's Maria Gadoy reports that includes ingestion of nicotine pouches, nicotine tablets, and liquid nicotine.
The study found that between 2010 and 2023, U.S. poison centers received about 135,000 reports of young children accidentally ingesting nicotine products. Most cases occurred at home in children under the age of two.
What are the latest findings on children accidentally ingesting nicotine products?
While most children experienced no side effects or only minor ones, serious effects occurred in 39 children and two children died. The researchers say most cases of ingestion involved liquid nicotine, the kind used in vapes. However, since 2020, reports of children swallowing nicotine pouches have skyrocketed by more than 760%. That corresponds with a surge in sales of these products. The findings appear in the journal Pediatrics. Maria
Gadoy and PR News. Stocks traded higher across the board on Wall Street today, the Dow up eighty eight points, the Nasdaq composite up fifty four, the SP five hundred also traded higher up eight.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
How is the Trump administration reshaping the U.S. Department of Education through Supreme Court action?
0:00–0:59
2
What is the new plan for U.S. weapons sales to NATO and Ukraine under President Trump?
0:59–1:52
3
Why did the Pentagon award $200 million AI contracts to companies like XAI, Google, and OpenAI?
1:52–2:54
4
How did the stock market react to recent government and defense news?
2:54–3:52
5
What are the latest findings on children accidentally ingesting nicotine products?
3:52–4:38