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What is the Republican midterm convention in Dallas and why is President Trump the headline act?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herst. The unconventional Republican midterm convention kicks off in about an hour in Dallas, Texas. As NPR's Tamara Keith reports, President Trump will be the star of the
show. The convention is an effort to push back on strong political headwinds and rev up Trump's base to get out and vote in November. The president speaks both nights along with some of the Republican candidates facing tough races this year. Democratic governor from Illinois JB Pritzker came to Dallas to do some counterprogramming.
Can't paper over the fact that Republicans have done nothing to earn your vote.
Convention organizers say it will draw a contrast between the common sense Republican agenda and the Democrats, liberal and extreme alternative. Tamra Keith, NPR News, Dallas.
Why did an Anthropic researcher resign and warn that AI development could become a catastrophe?
A researcher at the artificial intelligence company Anthropic has resigned while warning the company's work could have disastrous consequences. If yours Jeff Brumville has more on the latest in a string of safety warnings about AI.
Jacob Coxson, who worked at Anthropic and OpenAI, said he thought AI companies were, quote, gambling with our lives. On the social media platform X, he wrote that AI will soon be superhuman, able to hack anything and acquire real power and resources. The people building AI earnestly believe it could kill us all by the end of the decade, he wrote. He called on labs to slow and coordinate their research to avoid. Catastrophe. Coxon's resignation comes weeks after OpenAI disclosed a swarm of autonomous AI agents had worked together to hack another company. Jeff Brumfield, NPR News.
How are former 9/11 responders being impacted by newly released air‑quality records in New York?
Newly released air quality records in New York after the terrorist attack on nine eleven have FDNY union leaders demanding answers for what they call a continuing health emergency in the As people are still suffering from the effects of being at ground zero nearly twenty five years ago. FDNY Association uniformed President James Brossi.
What we learned was the air was as toxic as we said it was. What we learned is that we were dying with every breath we took down there. What we learned is that the city knew it and failed to prioritize one a public safety announcement. Two proper decon. Three preventing us from eating down there and digesting the toxins. Four not letting people volunteer to clean up.
What is the scope of the cyber‑attack that forced dozens of Massachusetts public schools to close early?
Five not letting people get a HEPA filter vacuum and get a credit for it from the government as they self clean their own apartments.
This comes a day after Mayor Mam Dani ordered the release of more than one hundred seventy thousand pages of documents on air quality in lower Manhattan after the collapse of the World Trade Center Towers. Wall Street lower just ahead of the bell, the Dow down four hundred five points, the Nasdaq down one hundred sixty-eight. You're listening to NPR News. Dozens of public schools in Massachusetts are closed early this week because of an ongoing cyber attack that's impacting critical systems. It's just one of the latest examples of hackers increasingly impacting everyday life, as MPR's Jenna McLaughlin has reports.
It is an inclement weather or pandemic that has kept thousands of students home in Springfield, Massachusetts early in the new school year. Hackers have prevented school administrators from accessing third party systems, where health data on students' medications and allergies are kept on file. Springfield Mayor Dominic Sarno says progress has been made and the investigation is ongoing.
Are the $45,000 holiday gifts given to three of President Trump’s top aides legal under federal ethics rules?
But he would not say whether cyber criminals were holding data for ransom.
If we have to, uh, which could be necessary, it's back to the future. Uh we'll go back to pen and paper.
As cyber criminals, hacktivists, and nation states target vulnerable American critical infrastructure, from water systems to schools, these disruptions have become the new normal. Jen McLaughlin and PR News.
President Trump gave three of his longtime aides who work in the West Wing, including Natalie Harp, a holiday gift of forty-five thousand dollars each last year. That's according to financial disclosure forms.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the Republican midterm convention in Dallas and why is President Trump the headline act?
0:00–0:57
2
Why did an Anthropic researcher resign and warn that AI development could become a catastrophe?
0:57–1:51
3
How are former 9/11 responders being impacted by newly released air‑quality records in New York?
1:51–2:32
4
What is the scope of the cyber‑attack that forced dozens of Massachusetts public schools to close early?
2:32–3:37
5
Are the $45,000 holiday gifts given to three of President Trump’s top aides legal under federal ethics rules?
3:37–4:24
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Who is Austin Tice and why is his disappearance still one of the world’s most high‑profile missing‑person cases?
4:24–5:04