Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Wilman.
In Iran, a panel of senior clerics has named a new Supreme Leader to head the country.
“As MPR's Jackie Northam reports, the choice signals continuity for Iran's hard-line regime.”
A panel of 88 clerics chose overwhelmingly to make Mojtabah Hamanei Iran's new Supreme Leader. He's a 56-year-old son of the former Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Hamanei, who was killed in his Israeli air strike at the start of the war. The younger Hamanei is considered a hard-liner, who is closely associated with a violent
crackdown on protesters during the 2009 so-called Green Revolution.
Hamanei is close with a powerful Iranian revolutionary guard corps.
It has pledged its support for the new Supreme Leader. Pro-Rzim State TV showed images of large crowds celebrating the news. This week President Trump said Hamanei was a lightweight and unacceptable choice to lead Iran. Israel has vowed to target him.
Jackie Northam in PR News. A senior Chinese official says he hopes U.S.-China relations will have a landmark year. It's the first positive signal China has given that a plan meeting between the country's two leaders might still go ahead this year. And Paris Jennifer Peck reports from Beijing.
For the past week, China has continually criticized the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran,
and that raises questions over whether the China U.S. summit will still happen.
On Sunday, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi says China is open to dialogue, though he did not confirm a meeting date. China and the U.S. are both big countries, neither side can remodel the other, he says. But we can choose how we want to engage. Wang says U.S.-China talks are vital for global stability.
Jennifer Peck and PR News, Beijing. A senior open AI executive has resigned that move follows the company's decision to provide its artificial intelligence technology to the U.S. military. As villain Marks reports, the departure highlights growing tensions in the tech industry over how advanced AI should be used in national security in the country.
Caitlyn Kalanowski, who worked in a senior role on robotics and consumer hardware at open AI, announced she was stepping down after the company agreed to deploy its AI models on the Pentagon's classified networks.
“In a statement on social media, Kalanowski said AI could play an important role in national”
security, but warned the deal itself lacked sufficient safeguards. She cited concerns about potential uses such as surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomous systems operating without human authorization. Open AI says the agreement includes restrictions and that its technology will not be used for domestic surveillance or autonomous weapons, though Kalanowski said the company moved
too quickly in improving its government partnership. For NPR News, I'm Bill Amog. And this is NPR News. Japan's NK Index closed down more than 5% when Markets closed Monday, best traders pull back because of concerns over the war in Iran.
South Korea's Kaspi fell 6% and the price of Brent crude oil jumped 18% to finish more at more than $100 a barrel. Louisiana's crawfish industry is facing a shortage of workers, as the season gets underway, as Mel Bridges was member-station, W.W. UNO reports. It's due to the Trump administration's changes in federal work visa policy.
Louisiana Agricultural Commissioner Mike Strange explained to state legislators that the issue isn't a lack of eligible workers. Crawfish peeling plants remain under staff, even with an expanded number of H2B visas. They simply cannot get their workers. And so some of the plants that normally get 100-135 workers have gotten zero.
The visas allow U.S. companies to hire foreign workers for seasonal agricultural jobs. While the administration recently lifted the cap on visas by an additional 35,000, the extra visas were distributed via a lottery system and only through early February, three months after crawfish season began leaving many peeling plants at diminished capacity. Strange says if the crawfish go unpeeled though either go unconsumed or be shipped to Mexico
for peeling. For NPR News, I Mel Bridges in New Orleans.
“Actually, Batia has lived up to Arnold Palmer's quote that you must play boldly to win”
the 24-year-old rallied from five shots behind on Sunday to win the Arnold Palmer Invitational in Orlando. He shot four straight birdies in an eagle on the back nine to four supply off beating
Daniel Burger on the first extra hole.
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