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What are the key details of President Trump's new trade deal with Japan?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corva Coleman. Investors around the world are cheering President Trump's announced trade deal with Japan. As MPR's Maria Aspen reports, the Dow Jones industrial average is now up one hundred and seventy points.
President Trump, posting on social media, wrote the United States will impose taxes of 15% on Japanese imports. While those new tariffs will increase costs, they're lower than the 25% tariffs Trump had previously threatened on Japanese goods. Trump also said Japan will invest $550 billion in the United States. Global investors cheered the news of the trade deal, with Japan's Nikkei rising 3.5%. In the U.S., investors have been largely shrugging off the ongoing tariffs drama, even as General Motors and other big companies warn about the impacts on their operations. The SP 500 index, which tracks the largest U.S. companies, has repeatedly hit record highs.
How did the sentencing hearing for the University of Idaho murders unfold?
Maria Aspen NPR News New York a sentencing hearing opens today for the man convicted of killing four University of Idaho students in twenty twenty-two. Brian Koberger is expected to be sentenced to four life terms without the possibility of parole. For Northwest Public Broadcasting, Lauren Patterson has more.
Koberger pleaded guilty to the murders of students Madison Mogan, Kaylee Gonzalez, Zanna Kernodal, and Ethan Chapin at a change of plea hearing earlier this month. He admitted to the stabbing deaths in exchange for prosecutors dropping the death penalty. Family members of the victims are sharing statements on how the crime has affected them. Koberger also has a chance to speak at the hearing. Despite pleading guilty to the killings, Koberger has not shared the motive for the crime. For NPR News, I'm Lauren Patterson in Boise.
House Speaker Mike Johnson has adjourned his chamber early for summer recess.
Why is the House delaying the vote on releasing Jeffrey Epstein documents?
The move pauses an effort to vote on a bill demanding the release of more documents in the case of late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Johnson says the Justice Department is already trying to do this. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche says he has contacted lawyers for Epstein's former girlfriend, Gillen Maxwell, for a possible interview. Maxwell is imprisoned for sex trafficking crimes. Форма федераль просекур Мичл Эпнер says the Justice Department's actions in this case are extraordinary.
It's unusual. that the DOJ would publicly announce that they are speaking to a potential cooperator and it is extraordinarily unusual that somebody as senior as the deputy attorney general would be the person conducting those conversations. In over thirty years as a criminal defense attorney and my time as a federal prosecutor, I've never seen anything like this.
He spoke to NPRs all things considered. On Wall Street the Dow is now up one hundred seventy six points, the Nasdaq is down eight.
What challenges is Elon Musk's XAI facing in the AI energy race?
This is NPR. Los Angeles officials have charged the driver of a car who was accused of plowing into a crowd of pedestrians last weekend. Fernando Ramirez faces dozens of counts of attempted murder. Prosecutors say he intentionally drove into the crowd outside an LA area nightclub. He was pulled from his car and beaten and then shot by another person. Authorities are still looking for that suspect. Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company is trying to raise billions of dollars. NPR's Bobby Allen reports the company is struggling with enormous energy costs.
AI chatbots require an immense amount of power to operate. The massive data collection, the water-guzzling data centers.
Why was the SpaceX launch from Vandenberg scrubbed at the last minute?
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. One recent estimate, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, found that XAI is burning $13 billion a year just to stay afloat. Musk is now trying to raise billions of dollars from investors as As the AI race continues to heat up, he's also grappling with reputational issues following his Grok chatbot launching into anti Semitic tirades.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What are the key details of President Trump's new trade deal with Japan?
0:00–0:57
2
How did the sentencing hearing for the University of Idaho murders unfold?
0:57–1:52
3
Why is the House delaying the vote on releasing Jeffrey Epstein documents?
1:52–2:58
4
What challenges is Elon Musk's XAI facing in the AI energy race?
2:58–3:40
5
Why was the SpaceX launch from Vandenberg scrubbed at the last minute?
3:40–4:38