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Who was Ozzie Osborne and what were the highlights of his final concert?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Sangh. Heavy metal legend Ozzie Osborne has died, according to a statement from his family. He was seventy six years old. Фанту the lead singer of Black Sabbath, known for enduring hits like
Iron Man, which he recently performed with Black Sabbath at a major charity event. In Birmingham, England, his final concert. The event reportedly raised tens of millions of dollars for medical research, including Parkinson's disease with which Osborne was diagnosed. Mercury Studios recently announced a concert would be shown in theaters in the coming months.
Why are House leaders hesitant to release more Epstein investigation documents?
House lawmakers are leaving town early for the August recess with no sign of the Epstein Files controversy going away. House Speaker Mike Johnson is resisting pressure from Democrats and some Republicans in the Chamber who want to vote to force the release of more documents about the financier and convicted sex offender found dead in a federal jail cell in 2019.
needed DOJ to do for years now, and that is to get everything released. So they're in the process of that. There's there's no purpose for Congress to push an administration to do something that they're already doing.
President Trump's own base has been clamoring for the administration to release everything it promised on the Epstein investigation, including on his powerful associates. House lawmaker's early departure leaves a number of pressing legislative issues unresolved. With government agencies set to run out of money in just over two months.
How is the Social Security Administration handling staff shortages and hotline wait times?
Social Security Administration officials have shuffled hundreds of local frontline workers to cover the agency's national eight hundred hotline. It's part of an effort to bring down wait times, but NPR's Ashley Lopez reports workers say it's creating more strain in local offices.
A spokesperson for the Social Security Administration says officials have deployed four percent of local staff to cover the eight hundred number. And they say this effort has already started to bring down wait times for phone services. But workers say it's forced overworked staff to cover employees now on the phone lines. Jessica LePointe is president of a union chapter that represents these workers. She says the agency's ongoing efforts to shrink the overall workforce was already creating issues.
We were already overburdened, overworked.
What are today’s movements in the Dow, S&P 500, and Nasdaq?
And burning out and then a bunch of work just got dumped on us.
LePointe says efforts to bring down wait times for services cannot be done without hiring more people. Ashley Lopez, NPR News.
US stocks mixed this hour. The Dow Jones industrial average is now up one hundred sixty one points at forty four thousand four hundred eighty-four. The SP's gained seven points. While the NASDAQ is down fifty two points, you're listening to NPR News. In the wake of a prisoner swap, El Salvador's president is firing back over claims about torture at the country's notorious lockup.
What are the allegations of torture in the El Salvador‑Venezuela prisoner swap?
And Pierce CarriCon reports Venezuelan authorities have said many of its citizens were tortured after the US sent them to El Salvador's mega prison.
El Salvador's leader, Naeeb Bukele, mocked Venezuela's accusations on social media, but did not address the abuse allegations. Last Friday, ten Americans were flown out of Venezuela after El Salvador released the more than 200 jailed migrants. Venezuela's attorney general says it will investigate claims of torture and sexual abuse. Migrants say they were also fed rotten food. In the prisoner exchange, the U.S. said Venezuela agreed to releasing eighty political prisoners, but to date, rights groups say a little more than half have been freed. Kerry Khan, NPR News.
How is Elon Musk’s XAI funding its AI infrastructure and addressing recent controversies?
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company is trying to raise billions of dollars as it runs out of cash fast. Here's NPR's Bobby Allen.
AI chatbots require an immense amount of power to operate. The massive data collection, the water-guzzling data centers. Most tech firms like OpenAI partner with big cloud computing companies to absorb some of the cost. But Musk is building and maintaining his own AI infrastructure.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
Who was Ozzie Osborne and what were the highlights of his final concert?
0:01–0:48
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Why are House leaders hesitant to release more Epstein investigation documents?
0:48–1:44
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How is the Social Security Administration handling staff shortages and hotline wait times?
1:44–2:29
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What are today’s movements in the Dow, S&P 500, and Nasdaq?
2:29–3:08
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What are the allegations of torture in the El Salvador‑Venezuela prisoner swap?
3:08–3:50
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How is Elon Musk’s XAI funding its AI infrastructure and addressing recent controversies?
3:50–4:39