Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. The Trump administration announced plans to send farmers $12 billion to help them stay in business and compensate them for their trade war losses. Frank Morris of member station KCUR reports.
President Trump's trade wars aggravated a bleak equation for U.S. farmers. His tariffs jacked up the prices of the supplies and equipment they need to buy. And retaliatory tariffs cut export sales and drove down grain prices. Many Midwestern farmers lost money this year.
Missouri farmer Richard Oswald says the bailout will help cover bills and loan payments, but won't make up for this year's losses.
They're attempting to replace profit, with bailout money. It's not the same as having a good market and making a profit.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture says it will distribute bailout funds by March, with row crop farmers taking $11 billion and other farmers splitting another $1 billion. For NPR News, I'm Frank Morris.
Netflix is being challenged after it announced last week it would attempt to purchase Warner
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Chapter 2: What financial support is being provided to farmers affected by trade wars?
Today, Paramount, which lost out in the Warner Brothers sweepstakes, announced it is mounting a hostile takeover bid. Steve Futterman reports.
Paramount says its offer is superior to the one being made by Netflix and suggests that Netflix could face regulatory problems. The Netflix deal is worth around $83 billion for a large share of the company. The Paramount offer for all of the company would pay $30 a share and is worth around $108 billion. Entertainment attorney Jonathan Handel says both sides are digging in their heels.
I think it is going to turn into litigation. There are various claims that each side could bring, and particularly focusing on, is my deal the better deal for shareholders?
The paramount offer includes some backing from an investment firm run by President Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner. For NPR News, I'm Steve Futterman in Los Angeles.
New research shows that AI chatbots can influence how people feel about political candidates, NPR's Windsor Johnston reports.
A new study published in the journal Nature and Science tested whether AI chatbots could sway voter opinions. Researchers asked thousands of people in the U.S., Canada, and Poland to chat with bots programmed to make simple arguments for or against specific candidates. After just a few minutes of back and forth, many participants shifted their views, sometimes by several percentage points.
Experts say the effect comes from the personalized exchange. The chatbots quickly respond, adjust their tone, and tailor their reasoning in a way traditional political ads can't. But the study also found some chatbots mixed accurate points with misleading ones, raising concerns about how they can be used in future campaigns. Windsor Johnston, NPR News.
Stocks closed down slightly today. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. Floridians have begun legally hunting black bears for the first time in a decade, despite opposition from critics. The state-sanctioned hunt drew more than 160,000 applications for a limited number of permits. There are more than 4,000 black bears in Florida today, up from just a few hundred in the 1970s.
The top humanitarian official for the UN is urging the UN Security Council to act to stop the violence in Sudan. As NPR's Emmanuel Akinwotu reports, the war there has caused the world's largest humanitarian crisis and ethnic cleansing in the western region of Darfur by a paramilitary group.
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