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of Congress with a call for democracy and the rule of law, King Charles and Queen
“Camilla will spend today in New York City as Bruce Convicer reports."”
The royal couples first stop will be a visit to ground zero. Twenty-five years after the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil, the King and Queen will attend a re-laying ceremony. He'll meet first responders and family members of those who were killed. Mayor Zora and Mamdoni have been invited to attend a ceremony, but don't pry the meeting
with the King is planned. Security, which is always tight for a royal visit, is expected
to be heightened in the aftermath of the weekend shooting at the White House correspondent Stinner. Traffic jams are expected from one end of Manhattan to the other. The subway stop at the World Trade Center will be temporarily closed. After the morning ceremony King Charles will travel up to Harlem to see how a grassroots organization educate young people on urban farming and food security. For NPR News, I'm Bruce Convicer in New York.
“"Fence Secretary Pete Hegg Seth will be on Capitol Hill today. He's appearing before”
the House Armed Services Committee and will likely be questioned about the Iran war and his firing of top generals and other military leaders." The Supreme Court here's arguments today, testing whether the Trump administration can move forward with mass deportations of individuals living and working legally in the U.S. under a law that provides temporary legal status for people unable to turn safely to their home countries because of natural disasters,
armed conflicts, and other extraordinary and temporary conditions. Here's NPR's Neutonberg. In 1990, Congress enacted a law to establish criteria for selecting processing and registering those eligible to remain in the U.S. with vetting and renewal required every 18 months. Currently, 17 countries are designated as covered under the law, but the Trump administration is trying to do away with it, maintaining that under the explicit terms of the statute.
Its actions simply are not subject to review by the courts. Nina Tottenberg and PR News
Washington. Rough night in North Texas, powerful storms hit the Dallas Fort Worth area,
leading officials in the city of mineral wells to impose a curfew. Strong winds, rip roofs off homes and flattened buildings late Tuesday. Ryan Dunn is a city's fire chief. "We still have a lot to look at and we'll see that the damage is going to be in the morning hours. We're going to come back together and we're going to see what we can do for volunteer support at this time. We do not need any volunteer support from the citizens.
We're very thankful for the outpouring support that you've already given us." Dunn says no fatalities have been reported, but at least two people were sent to a hospital. The Texas storms included at least one unconfirmed tornado. This is NPR News. Elon Musk took the stand Tuesday and his lawsuit against open AI and its CEO, Sam Altman. Musk argues that the AI company is effectively abandoned. It's not for profit-founding
principles and once Altman out here, Sam Pierce. John Ruach reporting. The case hinges on whether open AI's founding mission of creating AI as a non-profit for the benefit of humanity has been lost. Musk helped found the company a decade ago, but he left in 2018 amid disagreements with Altman and others about who would run a for-profit arm of the company that would be set up to raise money. Musk testified about his role
“early on. He says he recruited a key AI researcher and used his contacts at Microsoft”
and Nvidia to get access to computing power. And he says he wasn't opposed to setting up a for-profit entity, but he wanted control of it. In an opening statement, open AI's lead lawyer said the other founders were not okay with one person having control. Musk left, launched a competitor, XAI, and then sued. The trial is set to run for several more weeks. John Ruach and PR News, Oakland, California.
Well, Disney's Josh Tomorrow is facing his first crisis as a company's new chief executive.
The Federal Communications Commission under Chairman Brendan Carr has ordered an early license review of multiple ABC television stations owned by Disney. The order Tuesday came after a joke about Melania Trump by late night host, Jimmy Kimmel, a true calls from the White House for ABC to fire Kimmel. He survived calls last year that he be fired. After three straight sessions of declines, European cheers are higher in Wednesday trading.
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