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What is President Trump's $5,000 payout plan for every adult and how are Republicans responding?
Live from NPR News in Washington on Korva Coleman, President Trump is promising to visit dozens of Republicans as they campaign for office ahead of the midterm elections. He made this promise at last week's GOP convention. That's where he also vowed to give every American adult five thousand dollars if Republicans keep control of Congress after the election. And Pierre's Mara Lyason says there doesn't seem to be a lot of enthusiasm for the payouts.
The response has been surprisingly tepid even among Republicans. Some Republicans worry that even if Congress would approve such a payout, because the president can't just send those checks himself. It would cost more than a trillion dollars and that would add to the historically high national debt, unless it was paid for by raising taxes or budget cuts. NPR's
Mara Lyason reporting.
Why is President Trump downplaying AI safety concerns and what are tech leaders saying about slowing AI research?
President Trump is downplaying calls from the leaders of artificial intelligence companies for a slowdown in AI research. He says he does not want to give China any advantage. And Piers Windsor Johnston reports some experts agree with
Trump. The CEO of Anthropic is warning AI companies to slow the development of their most advanced models, citing major safety concerns. The leaders of OpenAI and SpaceX AI are also backing the call. But Cornell University technology policy expert Sarah Krepp says any plan must extend beyond American companies.
not just other companies but other countries.
How could China's rapid AI development affect U.S. competitiveness if American companies pause their work?
And I the one I think we all have in mind or should have in mind is China. They are very much on the heels of US frontier AI and at a fraction
of the cost. Krepp says slowing American developers without a global agreement could allow foreign competitors to benefit from US restraint. Windsor Johnston and PR News.
The Kremlin says Russia is not ruling out additional US brokered peace talks with Ukraine beginning this fall. The comments follow renewed US mediation efforts and weekend fighting that left at least eleven people dead, and Pierre's Charles Mainz reports from Moscow.
With Ukraine's air defenses largely depleted, Russia has carried out near daily drone and missile attacks on civilian, energy, and shipping infrastructure across the country.
What is the impact of Russia's attacks on Ukraine's grain export hub in Edessa?
The port city of Edessa has been a particular target as Russia attempts to block exports of grain crucial to Ukraine's economy. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has called the attacks an attempt to break Ukraine's resistance. Yet Kyiv has also targeted Russian civilian infrastructure in a bid to bring the War home to Russians. In the latest Ukrainian drones struck an apartment building in the Republic of Tatarstan and targeted an oil facility in the Krasnodar region, part of a pattern of attacks that have caused fuel shortages throughout the summer. Charles Baines, MPR News, Moscow.
Russian drones hit a Ukrainian rail line today near the border with Poland. One missed former CIA director David Petraeus, who was safely evacuated. This is NPR. Reports from Yemen say Houthi rebels have captured more islands in the southern Red Sea. It gives them more control over a key waterway used to export Saudi Arabian oil. The Saudis have already shut down their main pipeline that sends oil to the Red Sea after the pipeline was attacked.
Why is Celine Dion's return to the stage in Paris significant after her rare neurological illness?
Singer Celine Dion returned to the stage this weekend in France. It's been nearly four years since she announced she was battling a rare and painful medical condition, and Pierre Chandelis Duster reports.
Celine Dion kicked off her 16-show residency in Paris at the Plenitude Arena on Saturday. Wearing a black dress, the Grammy Award-winning singer opened the concert with the French song on a change pas, which means we don't change in English. Videos posted on social media by Variety show Dion performing hits such as Power of Love and My Heart Will Go On, an iconic classic from the Titanic movie. The soundtrack. Emotional and with tears in her eyes, Dion thanked the audience throughout the night. It was her first performance nearly four years after announcing she had been battling stiff person syndrome, a rare neurological condition that causes stiff limbs and severe muscle spasms.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is President Trump's $5,000 payout plan for every adult and how are Republicans responding?
0:00–0:48
2
Why is President Trump downplaying AI safety concerns and what are tech leaders saying about slowing AI research?
0:48–1:29
3
How could China's rapid AI development affect U.S. competitiveness if American companies pause their work?
1:29–2:16
4
What is the impact of Russia's attacks on Ukraine's grain export hub in Edessa?
2:16–3:20
5
Why is Celine Dion's return to the stage in Paris significant after her rare neurological illness?
3:20–4:40
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How will the Federal Reserve's interest rate increase affect everyday Americans and the upcoming midterm elections?
4:40–5:03