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Live from MPR News in Washington, I'm Shay Stevens. The Trump administration may resume dismantling the Department of Education. This after the US Supreme Court stayed a lower court decision on the matter. NPR's Corey Turner
explains. So it all goes back to President Trump's executive order earlier this year, where he instructed Education Secretary Linda McMahon to dismantle the US Department of Education. Um, 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 in half. And it is in response to these dramatic cuts that two different lawsuits were filed. They were eventually merged together. They tried to stop the Trump administration by arguing essentially that Congress created the Department Only Congress can
dismantle
it.
NPR's Cory Turner reporting. The Pentagon is awarding multimillion dollar contracts to leading artificial intelligence firms, including Chat GPT's parent firm, OpenAI. З НПРС Джон Брувич репортаж за дефенс департамент всю accelerate the use of AI. To help address critical national security challenges, the
Pentagon's chief digital and artificial intelligence office says contracts have been awarded to Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and Elon Musk's XAI. Each has a ceiling of $200 million. It did not give details of the contracts, but it says the partnerships will help broaden DOD's use of frontier AI capabilities in war fighting and in other areas, and they'll help the companies understand and address critical national security needs. It's part of what the DoD calls a commercial first approach to accelerating the adoption of AI in the Pentagon, and it represents a step up in the DoD's engagement with the country's leading AI firms. John Ruich, NPR News.
As President Trump threatens Mexico with new thirty percent tariffs, a new tax on Mexican tomatoes is now in effect. NPR's Ada Peralta reports that the US is levying an almost twenty-one percent tax on Mexican tomatoes.
This new tax is going to have wide-ranging repercussions on both sides of the border. Mexico exports about 90% of its tomatoes to the United States, and by some estimates, some 70% of tomatoes eaten in the United States come from Mexico. Economists say the new tariffs will lead Mexico to produce fewer tomatoes this winter, and American consumers could pay up to 10% more for tomatoes at the supermarket. Lawmakers in Texas and Arizona. Arizona lobbied the Trump administration to walk away from the tariff, saying it could cost thousands of jobs in their states alone. But the Trump administration says this tax will help American producers who they say have been unfairly priced out of the tomato market by Mexican producers.
Ada Pralta, NPR News, Mexico City.
US futures are virtually unchanged in after hours trading. This is NPR. New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy has declared a state of emergency in wake of flash flooding in the state. Public transportation in the north central New Jersey city of Scotch Plains was brought to a standstill. While in New York City subway service was suspended or delayed. Meanwhile, the search continues for one hundred and one people still missing from the flooding disasters that have claimed at least one hundred and thirty two lives in central Texas. Former Governor Andrew Cuomo says he's still running for mayor of New York. FOMO was launching an independent run for the office after losing the city's ranked choice primary to progressive Democrat Zoran Mamdanmi.
The crowded field of candidates includes incumbent Democratic mayor Eric Adams, who says he's seeking re election as an independent in the November general election. The World Health Organization has given its green light for a powerful new drug to prevent AIDS. But NPR's Jonathan Lambert reports that U.S. foreign aid cuts could reduce the supply.
Right now, HIV prevention drugs come mostly in the form of daily pills.
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