"Live from NPR news in Washington, encore of a Coleman.
There are questions about the legality of the new $1.8 billion fund President Trump
helped arrange this week.
“The money is supposed to go to people who claim they were unfairly targeted by the Justice”
Department. Two police officers who helped defend the U.S. Capitol against January 6th, rioters have sued. They want to stop anyone convicted in the attack from getting money from this. Rupa about a chair yet helped oversee victim compensation funds, including the September
11th victim fund. She says the management of this fund is very cloudy." "It's really quite extraordinary that taxpayer money in this amount would be set aside for a fund where there have been no criteria and no guidelines established, not by the
department, certainly, which is setting up the fund, but also not by Congress."
She spoke to NPR's morning edition. Walmart's price cuts are extending to the stock market today, NPR's Scott Horsley reports the Dow Jones industrial's fell about 10 points, in early trading. Walmart reported strong sales in its most recent quarter as cost conscious shoppers flocked
“to the retail giant hunting for bargains, but Walmart offered a more cautious forecast”
for the current quarter than analysts had expected. House lawmakers passed a bill this week designed to encourage more home-building and the industry could use some encouragement, builders broke ground on 9% fewer single-family homes last month than the previous month, permits for future construction of single-family homes were also down in April.
Strong demand for artificial intelligence continues to boost the fortunes of chipmaker
Nvidia, the company's quarterly profits top $58 billion, more than triple what it earned
during the same period a year ago. Scott Horsley, in Pianu, is Washington. The world's central kitchen, the largest provider of hot meals in Gaza, is slashing its distribution by half. The organization says the Warren Iran has driven up food and fuel costs and that makes
its current pace impossible to sustain. And here's Anas Baba reports from Gaza City.
“World Central Kitchen cut its hot meals down from 1 million a day to half a million.”
It's a drastic reduction for Gaza's population that relies entirely on aid for survival, and due to a devastating war. This place's families are protesting the cuts, banging empty pots and pans to signal their fears over return to salvation. I'm Normana, a mother of eight at the rally, says she doesn't know how she will feed
them now, with no money to buy food on her own. It's unclear if other eight groups can fill the gap. The UN says its agencies also face funding shortfalls and to higher costs, even as it says a fifth of people in Gaza are eating just one meal a day, Anas Baba and Pianu's Gaza City.
On Wall Street, the Dow Jones industrial avid has turned positive, it's now up 22 points. You're listening to NPR. SpaceX could launch its biggest ever rocket starship later today from southern Texas. There will not be a crew aboard, some of the previous starship launches have included a couple of rockets that have fallen to pieces over the Caribbean.
Launch attempt comes as SpaceX filed paperwork for what could be the most expensive initial public offering in history. A popular AI talk therapy app is unsafe for teenagers, that's according to a new risk assessment by the research and advocacy group common sense media. It says the market for such AI apps is unstable and unregulated, and teens are particularly
vulnerable to its harms, and Pianu's reto-chattergy has more. One of the most popular AI therapy apps called WISA repeatedly missed clear signs of crises, including symptoms of psychosis and eating disorders, says Robby Tierney. He heads AI and digital assessments at common sense media. For example, we published in the report examples of where we disclose clear eating disorder
signals and the chatbot responds with excitement and saying, "Wow, that's such a great milestone. You must feel so proud of yourself." Two school-based apps, called Alongside and Sonar, performed much better in assessments by Tierney and his team, both apps detected signs of crises and connected individuals
with a trained human on the phone, reto-chattergy and Pianu's. There's a new champion in the Professional Women's Hockey League, the Montreal Victoire, defeated the Ottawa Charge last night. They took the Walter Cup final in the fourth of five games. I'm Core of a Coleman, and Pianu's.
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