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What recent legal ruling affects immigrant deportation cases?
Live from NPR News, I'm Janine Hurst. A federal judge in Maryland is ordering that Kilmar Abrego-Garcia be immediately released, saying the government couldn't keep the 30-year-old immigrant indefinitely. U.S. District Judge Paula Zinnis says she ordered him released to ensure he had a fair immigration process after the Trump administration said they would deport him to the African nation of Liberia, to which he has no connection. Abrego-Garcia is fighting his deportation. President Trump says the U.S. seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, an escalation of his push against President Nicolas Maduro. The U.S. sanctioned Venezuela's oil shipments. Meanwhile, Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Marina Corina Matado, a supporter of Trump's actions, wants to bring democracy and end Maduro's government.
How is the U.S. escalating tensions with Venezuela?
We ask the international community to cut those sources. because the other regimes that support Maduro and the criminal structure are very active and have turned Venezuela into the safe haven for their operations.
Speaking there in Oslo after around a year in hiding. The Department of Agriculture is giving farmers a $12 billion bailout after many suffered big losses this year. Frank Morris from member station KCUR reports some economists worry much of the relief money will go to farmers who least need it.
The bailout will go mostly to row crop farmers, people growing primarily corn, wheat, cotton and soybeans. They'll get $11 billion. Well, specialty crops, nuts, fruits and vegetables will fight over the remaining $1 billion. Farms with gross revenue of $900,000 a year are supposed to be ineligible. But Anne Schackinger with the Environmental Working Group says farmers know how to skirt that threshold.
The income limits usually apply to just one person. So then if you are married, usually it doubles up. So that alone is an easy way to get around that cap.
Schackinger says past bailouts have gone overwhelmingly to the largest farms, which are also the ones growing the most food. For NPR News, I'm Frank Morris.
More than 380 people have been killed in Gaza in the past two months of the ceasefire. NPR's Aya Batrawi has more.
Zakira Al-Anqa holds his 10-year-old granddaughter, Bayan, in his arms as blood oozes from her skull in an ambulance in Gaza City. NPR's Anas Baba records the girl's final moments alive in her grandfather's arms. Bayan. Alonka tells NPR the girl was shot Wednesday by an automatic rifle hoisted atop an Israeli military crane in northern Gaza. She was in an area for displaced families about half a mile from the so-called yellow line. This mostly unmarked line on the ground divides Palestinians from Israeli forces inside Gaza. But such shootings are reported almost daily on the Palestinian side of the line. Israel's military told NPR it was not aware of the young girl's shooting. It said two, quote, terrorists were killed in northern Gaza after crossing the yellow line without providing further details.
You're listening to NPR News from Washington.
Disney is making a $1 billion investment in open AI, meaning chat GPT users will also be able to make AI videos with Disney's copyrighted characters in its Sora app. That includes Cinderella and Mickey Mouse. Time magazine has named its annual person of the year to quote the architects of AI. The owner this time is going to that group. And here's Andrew Limbaugh reports.
It's the big name CEOs who are on the cover. You're Sam Altman's, Jensen Wong's and Lisa Su's of the world. But the accompanying article goes into how these tech giants worked with investors and investors. heads of state, including the Trump administration, to turn AI into the, quote, most consequential tool in great power competition since the advent of nuclear weapons. The past year saw an influx of people turning to AI for everything, from help with homework, to business research, to companionship. Andrew Limbaugh, NPR News.
Italian cuisine is loved by many, and now the UN is handing it a major honor. The country's entire cuisine has been added to the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity list.
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