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The White House is leaving the door open to changes in presidential security after Saturday's
shooting at the White House Corps Sponence Association's annual dinner. As NPR's a Danielle Kurt Slave in reports, the White House is praising the security that stopped a gunman, but also says there's room for improvements. 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.
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 and 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. Danielle Kurt Slave and NPR News the White House.
Today is the 59th day of an internet blackout in Iran, according to the Internet Freedom Monitor Netblocks. It's the longest recorded nationwide shutdown in history, but as Dury Baskaran reports a privileged few are still getting online. Netblocks reports Iran's internet use goes up to about 2% of normal levels.
A government has issued so-called "white sim cards" to members of the government, some social media influencers, and loyal media outlets, specialized virtual private networks, or VPNs, are being sold on the black market for about $10 per gigabyte of data. Google searches work intermittently.
“Iran does have a functioning internal web called an "intranet", so services like local”
banking are still functional. But some Iranian officials are raising concerns about the economic cost of being cut off from the outside world. The head of an Iranian technology workers union said Sunday about a fifth of the country's tech workforce could face layoffs.
For NPR News, I'm Dury Baskaran, in Istanbul. Protesters gathered today outside the federal courthouse in Oakland, California, where jury selection began in the case of Elon Musk vs. OpenAI's Sam Altman, their message whoever wins the public loses. Rachel Myrow has more from member station KQED.
A small crowd gathered on the plaza, their protest, and at both Elon Musk and Sam Altman. Their bitterly goo-fued over weather-opening eye betrayed its founding promise to benefit humanity
“is on trial in Oakland, actually, or a tease of Sunnyvale who helped organize the demonstration”
as part of the group Tesla take down, so that she's upset with many members of the billionaire class in Silicon Valley. They're all holding hands and they're all part of it, and they're all linked up, and I see more lawsuits, I see more problems like this happening, this is just the first one. The trial runs through May 21st, for NPR News, I'm Rachel Myrow in Oakland.
Oil prices rose more than two and a half percent today, this is NPR News from Washington. Fast-moving storms have pummeled parts of the Midwest with hail, strong wind and heavy rain, leading to stranded commuters, more storms are on the way tonight, the National Weather
Service says more than 64 million people mostly in the Midwest are at risk of severe storms,
and the St. Louis region is at risk for tornadoes and large hail. The average salary for public school teachers in the U.S. technically went up during the last school year, but NPR's Cori Turner reports 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's 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 percent 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 percent of school's funding
this year. Cori Turner, NPR News. A sheep at Clover and B farm in underhill Vermont gave birth to a rare batch of six lambs earlier this month, the six toplets and their mother are doing well, making the lamb windfall even more remarkable.
The mother previously had quadruplets, and this time the farm's owners suspected more, they say when the big day came, the baby lambs seemed to keep coming and coming. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. Every day NPR reports stories are keeping you informed without fear or favor. That's the promise of a free press in a democracy, it's in the first amendment.
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