Get in Loser, we're taking a trip under the sea.
To a junkyard. I've done cobra helicopter, we've seen old washer machine
does a second trip but count.
This junk helped create one of the world's largest artificial reefs and a new home for many marine animals.
“But how did our trash become another fish's treasure?”
Find out on shortwave, listen in the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts. Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Wilman. The U.S. and Israel have announced an attack against Iran and Israel's preparing for retaliation from that country as NPR's Daniel Estron reports from Tel Aviv.
President Trump and Israel's defense minister announced strikes on Iran. A person briefed on the operation told NPR, the Israeli strikes are being conducted jointly with the U.S. after months of planning. The person said the targets are Iranian government, military and intelligence sites,
and that the strikes are expected to last a few days. Iranian government media are reporting rocket fire and blasts and parts of the capital Tehran. Israel's defense minister announced this was a preemptive Israeli strike against Iran to remove threats to Israel.
He said missile and drone fire from Iran toward Israel was expected imminently.
“Syrians wailed throughout Israel as a warning to prepare.”
Israel and Iran have closed their airspace to passenger flights. Daniel Estron and PR News, Tel Aviv. President Trump Friday ordered all government agencies to stop using anthropics AI technology and defense secretary Pete Higgseth says it's designating the company as a supply chain risk,
which could prevent military vendors from working with it. And PR's Jeff Brumfield says the action came after anthropics expressed concern about how its AI might be used. Anthropics AI tools are currently being used on classified systems.
The company has a $200 million contract with the defense department.
But Anthropics CEO Dario Amade is concerned about exactly how those tools might get used. In particular, he's worried they could be turned on Americans for mass domestic surveillance or used to power autonomous weapons. Open AI, meanwhile, says it now has a deal for its AI to be used by the Pentagon.
Stock at the financial technology company Block has risen more than 20% and after
“hours trading after the company's CEO announced he was laying off 4,000 of Block's 10,000”
employees, Jack Dorsey says using AI the company can now do more and do it more efficiently. Former President Bill Clinton wrapped up more than six hours of testimony in front of the House Oversight Committee Friday. The committee is investigating Jeffrey Epstein NPR's Sage Miller his more. The committee was attempting to gather information about Clinton's relationship with Epstein.
The two men were friends, but Clinton says the relationship ended before he learned about Epstein's criminal activities. Clinton has not been accused of wrongdoing. Republicans on the committee called the deposition productive. Republican Representative Nancy Mace said Clinton divulged a lot of information.
He did attempt to respond to every single question asked even when his attorneys told him to shut up. He kept going. The committee says Clinton's deposition will be made public as soon as possible. But the committee's investigation into Epstein isn't over.
In committee chair James Comer told reporters they planned to pose others who had relationships with Epstein, but he did not disclose who. Sage Miller and PR news and your listening to NPR news. A new federal study shows coal fired power plants released more air pollution last year than in the past.
Empires Rebecca Hershey reports that the Trump administration explicitly allowed a pollution from the plants to increase. Clinton coal produces a lot of pollution, including sulfur dioxide, which causes acid rain and respiratory illness. There are strict limits set by the federal government on how much sulfur dioxide power
plants can emit. But when President Trump took office he signed an executive order exempting many coal-fired power plants from those rules, which allowed the plants to save money by turning off expensive technology that traps dangerous gases. The effect was immediate.
Last year sulfur dioxide emissions increased 18 percent, and analysis by the natural resources
defense counsel found. Rebecca Hershey and PR news. Fighting is underway between Pakistan and Afghanistan. For months, Pakistan has accused Afghanistan of harboring militants who attack Western regions of Pakistan.
Late Thursday, Afghanistan launched a cross-border attack. Pakistan then carried out air strikes on Kabul and two other Afghan provinces on Friday. Pakistan is one of just nine countries known to have a nuclear weapons arsenal. FIFA officials are heading to Mexico soon to determine whether that country can safely host World Cup games this summer.
Mexico is recently racked with violence following the shooting death of a major drug cartel leader there. Mexican President Claudia Shainbaum says the officials will review security and transport mobility in the host cities.
