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for members of the Iranian regime to lay down their arms in exchange for immunity. He did
“so yesterday during an event at the White House. NPR's Tom Bowman says as U.S. and Israeli”
forces continue attacking Iran, Pentagon officials remain concerned about Iranian drones." The very hard to detect, they're small, they're fast, they can evade radar. So that's a continued threat that people are really worried about. And Ukraine is now reaching out to the U.S. and say, "You know, we can help you with Oshahed drones because we've been fighting them for the past four years."
Speaking earlier yesterday, Trump said he would be involved in deciding who Iran's next leader will be. The Treasury Department is issuing a temporary waiver to allow refineries
in India to purchase oil from Russia. NPR's Julia Simon reports on what energy experts
are saying about that move. In a statement on X, Treasury Secretary Scott Besant wrote the 30-day waiver for India
“to buy Russian crude will "not provide significant financial benefit to the Russian government”
as it only authorizes transactions involving oil already stranded at sea." This is a significant turnaround. After months of the Trump administration leaning on India to stop accepting Russian oil. Experts tell NPR it's a move to try to avoid higher oil prices in the U.S. and around the world. India is vulnerable to the current shortage of oil from the Persian Gulf because of the war with Iran. Around 40% of Indian crude imports
come through the straight-of-war moves, which is effectively blocked. Julia Simon and Pianus Russia signed a strategic partnership treaty with Iran in January of last year, but Moscow says Tehran has not asked for Russia's help to defend the country from U.S. and Israeli attacks. President Trump says he wants Republican Senator Mark Wayne Mullin of Oklahoma to be the next Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. NPR Sam Gringlass says the
“President fired DHS Secretary Christine Nome yesterday, following Nome's two days of testimony”
on Capitol Hill. Mark Wayne Mullin is a relatively fresh face in the Senate. He got there in 2023 after a decade in the House. As a member of the Cherokee Nation, he's the first tribal citizen in the Senate in years. Mullin does not have a background in Homeland Security. His career before politics was in construction and ranching and professional mixed martial arts fighting.
He now serves on the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee, which is in the middle of the
standoff over funding for the Department. Mullin has been asked to lead. DHS is shut down as Democrats push for changes on how immigration officers operate. Sam Gringlass and PR News Washington. Nome has come under criticism from members of Congress for her handling of the President's crackdown on illegal immigration. This is NPR News from Washington.
Pentagon is raising the stakes in its disputes with the artificial intelligence company Anthropoc. As NPR's John Ruich reports, Anthropoc's CEO says the company has been designated a supply chain risk to U.S. national security. Anthropoc's CEO Dario Amade says in a statement, his company received a letter from the Pentagon declaring it a supply chain risk. Anthropoc makes the popular AI chatbot clawed and it's
been in to dispute with the Department of Defense over how its AI models can be used. Anthropoc is uncomfortable with the Pentagon potentially being able to use its AI for mass surveillance of Americans and for fully autonomous weapons. The Pentagon has sought permission for all legal uses. According to Amade, the Pentagon's action has a narrow scope and the vast majority of Anthropoc's clients are unaffected. Amade says Anthropoc does not believe the designation
to be legal and has no choice but to challenge it in court. Although he says there have been productive discussions. On Ruich and PR news, the Pentagon says it hopes advanced DNA technology will help identify the remains of 88 U.S. Navy sailors and Marines killed aboard the USS Arizona during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The remains were buried in a cemetery in Honolulu marked
as unknowns following the attack on December 7, 1941. The Defense POWMA accounting agency says DNA samples collected from family members will be compared with those remains. Wall Street is coming off another down day for stocks that now lost 784 points yesterday or more than 1.5%. I'm Dave Maddingley and PR news in Washington.
