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What is President Trump's agenda for his U.N. speech and upcoming diplomatic meetings?

Corva Coleman 0:00
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Korva Coleman. President Trump is scheduled to speak later this hour to world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly in New York. NPR's Franco Ordonas reports the President is looking for wins after a difficult last couple of weeks.
Franco Ordoñez 0:23
Before hosting Chinese President Xi Jinping in Washington. The president is riding a wave of low approval thanks in part to growing concerns about the economic fallout from the Iran war. In his speech, Trump is expected to paint himself as a peacemaker, highlighting peace deals he's announced around the world while defending his Iran policy. There'll be a lot of attention on the speech. Last year Trump told leaders quote your countries are going to hell.

Why is the appearance of Venezuela's acting leader at the U.N. causing controversy?

Franco Ordoñez 0:52
Trump is also expected to meet with Gulf leaders as well as the Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky and British Prime Minister Andy Burnham. Franco Ordonez N PR News.
Corva Coleman 1:04
Meanwhile the acting leader of Venezuela has arrived at the UN and also plans to meet with President Trump. But the appearance by the unelected Venezuelan leader is already generating controversy back home, Katherine Osborne
Catherine Osborne 1:18
reports. It's been nine and a half months since the U.S. military seized then Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and imprisoned him in New York to face drug charges. Maduro's vice president, Dulcie Rodriguez, became the country's acting leader. Polls show most Venezuelans want new elections, but the Trump administration, which is now partnering with Rodriguez to revitalize Venezuela's oil industry, says the country is not ready for a vote. Rodriguez's meeting this week with Trump is a further step towards Washington endorsing her legitimacy.

How are media organizations challenging the White House ban on press access?

Catherine Osborne 1:50
For NPR News, I'm Catherine Osborne in Rio de Janeiro.
Corva Coleman 1:53
A federal judge has scheduled a hearing tomorrow for three media organizations suing the government after President Trump barred them from the White House. CNN, MS Now, and politicos say it's a clear First Amendment violation. The President claims they are quote fake news. Paramount Skydance is one step closer to a $111 billion deal to merge with Warner Brothers Discovery. Paramount, led by David Ellison, settled an antitrust lawsuit filed by twelve state attorneys general, and Pierre's Monthly Del Barco reports on what the agreement means for the business moving forward.
Mandalit Del Barco 2:31
Ellison and company agreed to operate Paramount Pictures and Warner Brothers Studios separately for now. They promised to spend $300 million more to make movies in the U.S. And the court documents they signed say that in the first two years the combined company

What does the Paramount‑Warner Bros. merger mean for the future of movie production?

Mandalit Del Barco 2:46
will release at least thirty films a year and at least four of those independent films. But it's unclear what it means that half of those films would be produced jointly. NPR's Mondalate Del Barco
Corva Coleman 2:57
reporting. This is NPR. A Venezuelan immigrant who was shot in the back by ICE agents and detained in Austin, Texas is supposed to be moved for more medical care. Supporters of Wilbur Rafael Garces Perez says he was hospitalized after being shot on Sunday, but a few hours later he was put in a detention center where he said a bullet was still in his back. Mathematicians say they're still trying to understand a solution to one of the field's most challenging problems. It was published by OpenAI, but critics say the company did a poor job of showing its work, as NPR's Jeff
Kevin O'Leary 3:37
Brumfield reports. OpenAI claims to have solved the Navier Stokes problem, a notoriously tough puzzle having to do with fluid dynamics.

How is OpenAI’s claimed solution to the Navier‑Stokes problem being evaluated by mathematicians?

Kevin O'Leary 3:45
In a blog post published earlier this month, the company boasted it had used its immense computing power and cutting edge AI to come up with a solution in a matter of hours. Unfortunately, it's taking weeks for human mathematicians to decipher the AI's answer. Javier Gomez Serrano is with Brown University. He says the problem is that the one hundred sixty-six page proof is poorly written.
Unknown 4:09
Mm it's not written for humans. And the paper doesn't explain What parts are important?
Kevin O'Leary 4:16
Gomez Serrano does believe the solution is right, but it will take extra human effort to figure out why.

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