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to Drink" wherever you're listening. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryle and Barton. Secretary of Defense Pete Heggseth has declared the AI firm anthropic as a risk to national security as NPR's Jeff Bromfield reports in some unusual decision that could hurt the company's business.
Heggseth made the announcement in a post on X. He said, quote, "Effective immediately no contractor supplier or partner that does business with the United States military may conduct any commercial activity with anthropic." The declaration is highly unusual. The designation of supply chain risk is normally given to foreign companies like the Chinese
telecommunications giant Huawei. If the band goes forward, it could be a huge blow to anthropic's business with other large firms. The announcement resulted from a dispute over how anthropic's tools can be used by the Pentagon andthropic-worned restrictions on AI's use for mass surveillance and automated weapons.
Jeff Bromfield and PR News. Former President Bill Clinton told the House over-site committee today he did nothing wrong and saw no signs of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuse. The closed door deposition ended after more than six hours, Clinton says by the time the abuse came to light with a 2008 guilty plea he had long stopped associating with Epstein.
The hearing marks the first time a former president has been compelled to testify to Congress.
The $111 billion deal that paramount struck to take over Warner Brothers discovery includes
CNN. That has left a lot of questions hanging over the cable news channel as NPR's David Fulkin flick explains. We've talked to half dozen folks inside CNN last 24 hours. They, of course, are speaking on the condition they not be named because they're fearful
about job security down the line and they haven't been authorized to talk about this stuff. But there are two real fierce they invoke.
“And one, I think it's financial and it would be regardless of the climate around them.”
And the second is the question of journalistic independence and I think that's about the hearing now. NPR's David Fulkin flick reporting, investment firm Van Guard has agreed to pay millions of dollars to settle allegations that it used its financial influence to hurt the U.S. coal industry and Piers Michael Kapli reports Van Guard didn't admit wrongdoing.
In 2024, state attorneys general sued Van Guard, along with the firm's Black Rock and State Street for allegedly using their investments to pressure coal companies to cut production. Lawyers for all three firms have denied the allegations.
Van Guard has agreed to pay $29.5 million to settle the allegations.
The firm also said it won't push companies that's invested in to take particular actions to cut climate pollution. Black Rock and State Street weren't part of the agreement. The U.S. has been moving away from coal to generate electricity in favor of cheaper natural gas and renewable energy.
The energy information administration expects coal generation to fall by 6% this year and 4% in 2027. Michael Kapli and PR News.
“U.S. stock sank today the Dow dropped more than 1%.”
This is NPR News. NASA is revamping its Artemis Moon landing program. The announcement comes days after the space agency's new moon rocket returned to its Florida hanger for more repairs. Artemis 2 is a lunar fly around and it's now off until at least April.
The follow-up mission to land near the Moon South Pole will now focus on testing a lunar lander in Earth's orbit instead that would be followed up by a moon landing in 2028. Israel's Supreme Court has frozen an order by the government to ban dozens of aid groups from working in Gaza and the occupied West Bank and appears A.A. Batralia reports the ban targeted at least 37 aid groups including doctors without borders.
They're Norwegian refugee council which provides tents for displaced people in Gaza says the injunction pauses immediate closure of their operations but does not restore visas for international staff trying to enter the Palestinian territories or allow them to bring an aid. Doctors without borders returns clinics in Gaza says the impact of the courts' interim
order remains uncertain. Aid groups had petitioned Israel's Supreme Court to urgently halt a March 1 deadline that strips them of their ability to work in Gaza and the West Bank. It comes after new Israeli rules required aid groups to disclose lists of their Palestinian staff for vetting or B.D. registered.
Israel says this is for security, aid groups say they're concerned about its implications on local staff and note that Israeli forces killed more than 400 aid workers in the war in Gaza. A.A. Batralia and Pyrenees. Target will stop selling cereals containing synthetic colors by the end of May.
The company says it has worked with national brands to reformulate products, some cereals like tricks and lucky charms will have updated formulations. This is NPR News from Washington. This message comes from wise. The app for international people using money around the globe.
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