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What happened in the Los Angeles bus crash and subsequent news‑helicopter accident?
Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass says losing five Angelenos in a deadly bus crash and the subsequent crash of a news helicopter is painful.
Our hearts are with those impacted by the bus collision and the helicopter crash and with the entire community. community who lost members of their team while they were doing their job.
Mayor Bass speaking late Tuesday night during a news conference after the helicopter working for KNBC-TV crashed in the Chatsworth neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley as news crews were covering the bus crash. At least three people were killed when the news chopper went down and erupted into a fireball. The bus crash left at least two people dead. An artificial intelligence researcher from Google's DeepMind is the latest to sound the AI alarm. NPR's Bobby Allen reports on the growing course of AI professionals calling for a slower pace of development.
Bilal Chaghtai witnessed Google's deep mind firsthand.
Why are AI researchers like Bilal Chaghtai calling for a slowdown of artificial intelligence development?
And he says in a public resignation letter, quote, I too am extremely concerned by the default trajectory of this technology. I earnestly believe that AI has the potential to kill us all. Chaghtai is the latest researcher to voice fears that AI could eventually escape human control. Anthropic CEO Dario Amadei, OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman, and Elon Musk have all endorsed an AI slowdown. President Trump and some smaller AI companies argue the fears are overblown and motivated by a desire to keep AI upstarts from overtaking the leading companies. Bobby Allen, NPR News.
The House has approved an Iran war powers resolution for a third time. Seven Republicans joined Democrats in the 220-204 vote. That came late Tuesday night. It would block President Trump's ability to continue military action against Iran without congressional approval.
How does the new Iran war‑powers resolution aim to limit the President’s military actions?
It now heads to the Senate. Earlier Tuesday, Republican Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massey moved to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over the Iran war. The top human rights official with the U.N. says hundreds of bodies have been recovered from buildings destroyed by Israeli strikes in Gaza. NPR's Michelle Kellerman reports.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights says he fears that the remains that have been uncovered so far are only the tip of the iceberg. Volker Turk says large parts of Gaza have been flattened by Israeli bombing, and the Israelis are bulldozing many areas of Gaza with, in his words, no respect for the dead under the rubble. Turk is calling for international investigators to be allowed into all parts of Gaza to help collect evidence of possible war crimes. Israel's ambassador to the UN, Danny Danone, says Turk is rushing to put Israel in the dock while ignoring Hamas, the, quote, terrorist organization that turned Gaza's civilian infrastructure into a battlefield. Michelle Kellerman, NPR News, the State Department.
What are the implications of former Philippine President Duterte’s appearance at the International Criminal Court?
And you're listening to NPR News. Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is expected to appear in a courtroom in The Hague today. It will be his first public appearance since he was transferred to the International Criminal Court 18 months ago to face murder charges linked to his war on drugs. Duterte's lawyers say his cognitive decline leaves him unfit to stand trial. Prosecutors in Los Angeles say they will not seek the death penalty for Nick Reiner and the murder of his parents. Hollywood director Rob Reiner and photographer Michelle Singer Reiner. 33-year-old Nick Reiner was indicted for the murders back in July. Here's NPR's Chloe Veltman.
A Los Angeles County grand jury indicted Reiner on two counts of first-degree murder. Reiner has pleaded not guilty to these charges, as well as the special allegation that he was lying in wait.
Why are investors watching the Federal Reserve’s upcoming interest‑rate decision so closely?
At a morning press briefing, LA County District Attorney Nathan Hockman said prosecutors came to their decision following discussions with law enforcement and the victim's family members.
After a careful and thorough review of all these factors, the district attorney's office will not be seeking the death penalty in this case.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What happened in the Los Angeles bus crash and subsequent news‑helicopter accident?
0:00–1:03
2
Why are AI researchers like Bilal Chaghtai calling for a slowdown of artificial intelligence development?
1:03–1:53
3
How does the new Iran war‑powers resolution aim to limit the President’s military actions?
1:53–2:57
4
What are the implications of former Philippine President Duterte’s appearance at the International Criminal Court?
2:57–3:48
5
Why are investors watching the Federal Reserve’s upcoming interest‑rate decision so closely?
3:48–4:40