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What is President Trump's claim about the Iran war and gas prices before the midterm election?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. President Trump now says the Iran war will not end until after the midterm elections. And as NPR's Franco Ordonez reports, Trump also says gas prices will not come down until it does.
President Trump said gas prices will remain high until after the midterm election.
Right after the election, uh oil prices are gonna be tumbling downwards. Most
experts however say it will take months for gas prices to come down. The US Israel war with Iran is now in its seventh month with no sign of ending soon. But President Trump insists it will quote end immediately after the election.
Because they can't hold out any longer.
How is the Navy responding to congressional concerns over pilot brain injuries and suicide?
They're desperate to try and effect the election.
The midterms are nearly two months away on November third. Franco Ordonez, NPR News, the White House.
A congressional committee is recommending the Pentagon develop a program to address brain injuries. NPR's Claudio Grisales reports it's part of an investigation into suicides among Navy pilots.
The House Oversight Committee said it found the Navy has not taken the necessary steps to determine if it is systematically exposing their pilots to long term brain injury. probe found the Navy ignored warnings that on the job physiological and psychological injuries could put pilots at risk of mental health struggles and suicide. They also found Navy culture discouraged aviators from seeking mental health care. The congressional effort was launched after the New York Times found a pattern of suicide.
What are the legal arguments in Louisiana's challenge to the abortion‑pill distribution policy?
and related difficulties among pilots. The House Committee recommended a new Pentagon program dedicated to aviator brain health, cutting barriers to care and ramping up long-term health care studies of Navy pilots. Claudia Di Sales, NPR News.
Today an appeals court heard Louisiana's challenge of how the abortion pill Mipha Pristone is distributed. NPR's Selena Simmons Duffin reports the judges seemed skeptical of the case against the FDA.
Louisiana has a total abortion ban and it's suing the FDA over its decision to allow Miphipristone to be prescribed over telehealth and sent to patients through the mail. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals is considered one of the most conservative courts in the country, but two of the three judges assigned to this abortion pill case are Democratic appointees. Here's one of them, Judge Stephen Higginson, who was appointed by President Biden, questioning the attorney for Louisiana.
That sounds like it's really just asking the federal government to help you impose your criminal laws.
Why is an Anthropic researcher resigning and what does he warn about AI development?
There's no set timeline for a decision in the case. It will very likely end up back at the Supreme Court. Selena Simmons Duffen, NPR News.
An anthropic researcher is resigning over concerns about irresponsible development of AI. In a statement, Jacob Coxson says he's worried about unsafe development practices and underestimating AI's capabilities. He warns that AI models could soon become superhuman systems and threaten human life. Both anthropic and open AI face scrub scrutiny this summer. It's NPR News. Spain's intelligence agency issued multiple warnings about a potential mass crossing of people from Morocco into the Spanish exclave of Ceyuta in North Africa before it happened in late July.
How did Spain’s intelligence agency warn about the mass crossing from Morocco and what happened?
Declassified documents show that the agency warned about social media groups encouraging a wave of entries at the fence and by sea. A spokesperson for Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez says that the documents did not provide enough information to anticipate the scale of the crisis. The federal government plans to remove wild horses from public lands in Colorado this month, despite state leaders asking to freeze operations. Rachel Cohen with the Mountain West News Bureau has more.
Members of Colorado's congressional delegation and Governor Jared Polis are asking the federal government to stop using helicopters to gather wild horses on public lands.
The immediate concern is the inhumane nature of these helicopter roundups in which horses are uh terrified, injured, scared.
The plea comes after the Bureau of Land Management removed nearly nine hundred horses in Colorado in August, and nine animals died in the operation.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is President Trump's claim about the Iran war and gas prices before the midterm election?
0:00–0:38
2
How is the Navy responding to congressional concerns over pilot brain injuries and suicide?
0:38–1:29
3
What are the legal arguments in Louisiana's challenge to the abortion‑pill distribution policy?
1:29–2:28
4
Why is an Anthropic researcher resigning and what does he warn about AI development?
2:28–3:12
5
How did Spain’s intelligence agency warn about the mass crossing from Morocco and what happened?
3:12–4:16
6
What controversy surrounds the federal roundup of wild horses in Colorado?
4:16–5:04