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The California Man arrested for Saturday's shooting outside the White House Correspondence
“Dinner as being charged with attempting to assassinate President Trump.”
A short time ago, acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche disclosed that first
count is punishable by up-to-life in prison." The second count is interstate transportation of a firearm to commit a felony. This is punishable by up to 10 years in prison. The third count is discharge of a firearm during a crime of violence, which is punishable by a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of 10 years, a maximum of life, and the 10 years
is consecutive to any other sentence imposed. The defendant Cole Allen allegedly charged through a security perimeter at the Washington Hilton shots were fired and agent was wounded, though it is uncertain if it was by the gunmen or friendly fire. Well, this would be the third time someone is apparently trying to assassinate Trump
since his 2024 presidential campaign.
The White House is now re-examining security protocols and practices.
There's NPR's Daniel Kurtz-Laybin. In response to a question about the incident, White House press secretary Caroline Levitt stressed that President Trump believes that Saturday's security protocols worked, but added that changes could happen. "I definitely wouldn't say changes are out of the question.
“I think, again, it's up to the White House here, and we've viewed as a great responsibility”
to ensure the maximum safety of the President and the Vice President in the entire cabinet." Levitt also argued that Democratic politicians rhetoric helps foster political violence. She did not address, however, what part the president might play in making political rhetoric more civil. Daniel Kurtz-Laybin and PR news the White House.
President Trump is hosting the first official state visit of his second presidency that of King Charles III in Queen Camilla, the King's expected to attempt to repair a U.S. U.K. ties. The British monarch is not expected to address his younger brothers' connections to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Hundreds of Google employees sent a letter to the company's chief executive over how the
Pentagon could use its powerful artificial intelligence systems and how it should not.
And PR's Bobby Allen reports it comes as a defense department looks to ramp up the use of AI in battlefield settings.
“Within 600 Google employees wrote to CEO Sundar Pachai that quote, "We want to see AI benefit”
humanity, not see it being used in inhumane or extremely harmful ways." The demand comes as Pentagon leaders have pressed tech companies to harness AI for all lawful uses, a category Google workers' fear, will mean its tools will be deployed for autonomous weapons and mass surveillance. Anthropic the maker of Claude has been locked in a legal standoff with the Trump administration,
over the company's refusal to give defense officials access to its technology without guardrails. The Google letter urges the company to reject any contracts that involve classified work, which the employees say could violate human rights. Google and the Pentagon did not return requests for comment. Bobby Allen and PR news.
It's NPR. Well, Microsoft and open AI are taking another step at relying less on each other. Today, Microsoft said it would no longer pay a share of its revenue to the maker of Chad G. B. T. and open AI will no longer grant Microsoft exclusive rights to license. It's technology.
The company's close ties have raised regulatory concerns. The average salary for public school teachers in the United States technically went up during the last school year. But as NPR's Corey Turner tells us, a new review finds inflation wreaking havoc on teachers' real pay.
The review comes from the nation's largest teachers' union, the National Education Association, or NEA, and it's based on data collected directly from state departments of education. The average teacher salary rose to nearly $75,000 in the last school year. But after adjusting for inflation, NEA researchers estimate that teachers' real earnings actually declined by nearly 5% of the past decade.
The report includes lots of other data too. Public schools student to teacher ratio held steady at around 15 to 1. And the federal role in helping fund public schools continue to decline. With federal dollars estimated to make up just 7% of schools funding this year. Corey Turner, NPR News.
Rain, hail, and destructive winds batter portions of the Midwestern U.S. tens and millions of people in the path of severe storms a number of which heighten the risks for tornadoes in the St. Louis area. The National Weather Service kept a watch for what it described as multiple supercells capable of all hazards including tornadoes, large hail, and wind gusts. It's NPR.
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