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“Live from NPR News and Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. President Trump has not technically”
called for regime change in Iran, but the U.S. and Israel have killed dozens of the country's top leaders and vowed to destroy all its major weapon systems, as NPR's Greg Mayary explains. Trump released a video at the start of the war on Saturday and he called for the Iranian people to wait for the U.S. attacks to play out and then he said in this video, "When we are finished, take over your government, it will be yours to take." So that sounds a lot like regime change,
but he didn't exactly say the words then and he hasn't said them since. Other officials like Defense Secretary Pete Higgs-Sess, say this is strictly a military operation that's got nothing to do with nation building or establishing democracy. Trump and his team have further muddy the waters by keeping, they keep giving changing reasons on why the war was launched.
“NPR's Greg Mayary reporting, and Thropix, moral stand blocking the military from using its tech”
for automated weapons or surveillance is reshaping the competition between leading AI companies
and Thropix' chatbot Claude for the first time outpaced its better-known rival chatGPT
in phone app downloads in the U.S. this week, many military and human rights experts are frustrated after years of marketing that persuaded the government to apply AI on high-stakes tasks. President Trump says he'll soon make an endorsement in Texas's Republican Senate primary, long-serving and come at John Cornen is headed for a runoff against state attorney general Ken Paxton, and PR's Stephen Fowler reports. The race between Cornen and Paxton will be decided
in a May 26 runoff, but if President Trump has his way, the race will effectively be over ASAP. In a true social post, Trump says that the race "must stop now" and that he will soon endorse
one of the candidates and ask the other to drop out. Some of the urgency comes from the results
of the Democratic primary, where James Toleriko won his party's nod with a big tent approach that likely makes the race more competitive. Stephen Fowler, in PR News. Virginia's Supreme Court has put down a legal challenge to Democrats redistricting effort there. VPM News's Jan Colleal reports it means for "Ginions" will begin voting on Friday on a referendum to redraw the state's congressional maps. Challengers ranging from an everyday voter to the
Republican National Committee have sued over the proposed congressional redraw. But no argument has stuck. Courts have punted repeatedly on whether to weigh in, until after the last voters cast their ballots on April 21. Early voting begins Friday on whether to approve a constitutional amendment on redistricting, and by proxy a 10-1 congressional map for Virginia. That's 10 districts with an advantage for Democrats and one solidly Republican district. Virginia's currently split
65 for Dems, meaning a net gain of four seats. For MPR News, I'm Jada Khalil and Richmond. This is NPR News. Nashville's Metro Council has passed a resolution against a tunnel one of Elon Musk's companies wants to build to offer people express rides in Tesla's, but the move isn't binding National officials of race concerns about safety, insufficient transparency, and efforts to sidestepped local input. They want to put their grievances on the record after the company
went to the state to bypass local leaders. A Texas biotech company that wants to bring the
“woolly mammoth and other extinct species back to life is dismissing criticism from independent”
scientists and PR's Rob Stein reports. Officials at Khalil's biosciences defended their controversial goals while giving NPR a rare look inside the company's new Dallas laboratory. That's where Khalil's scientists are analyzing DNA from the woolly mammoth and other extinct species in the hopes of resurrecting the animals. That goal has drawn skepticism from many scientists. They doubt it's possible and worry it might be dangerous if it were. But Ben Lam,
Khalil's co-founder and CEO dismisses those concerns. I'd say it's unethical not to us. It's immoral not to do. Khalil also says scientists could produce a woolly mammoth in about two years. Rob Stein and PR news Dallas. Archaeologists have found a prehistoric human skeleton deep inside a flooded cave system on Mexico's Caribbean coast. A cave diving archaeologist says the team recovered at late last year. The body sits far from the entrance
at about 26 feet down. It could have been part of a burial ritual at least 8,000 years ago. This is NPR news from Washington. This message comes from wise. The app for international people using money around the globe. You can send, spend, and receive an up to 40 currencies with
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