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President Trump is again threatening a U.S. military intervention in Cuba.
“He says past presidents have considered intervening in Cuba for decades, but that, quote,”
"It looks like I'll be the one that does it yesterday the Trump administration announced criminal charges against former Cuban President Raul Castro. Many believe Trump is following the same playbook he did when the U.S. Alsted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, as NPR's Ryan Lucas explains." The Trump administration also has ramped up pressure on the island squeezed it economically,
and now we have the Castro indictment, which some people certainly see as a prelude to potential military action. Cuba's president, in fact, yesterday accused the U.S. of trying to create a pretext to attack the country. Now, potentially U.S. military action could target just Castro or it could target Cuba more
generally, but either way, experts say it's unclear that the Cuban government would respond the same way that Venezuela's did. President Trump wanted Congress to fund ICE and Border Patrol by June 1st, then he started pushing lawmakers to fund his White House ballroom project, and he created a nearly $1.8
billion fund that may grant money to January 6 capital rioters.
NPR's Eric McDaniel reports negotiations fell apart, and now Congress is leaving town for a week long recess. And as to about President Trump's fund, the he says will pay reparations to folks unjustly persecuted by the government, Senator Lisa Mercalski, Republican of Alaska, had this to say.
I don't like it. Here's Senate Republican Majority Leader John Thune on the same issue.
“"I think that there are, and will be, continue to be, a lot of questions around that,”
that the administration is going to have to answer." Thune said the fund concerns are linked to why these votes are delayed. Republicans were all set to pass three years of funding for immigration enforcement. We control both chambers of Congress, albeit with narrow margins. But when those slim majorities come up against controversial policies, the math stops
working, Eric McDaniel, and peer news Washington. "AI is quietly making its way into some therapy offices, as tools, record sessions, and generate clinical notes, critics worry the technology could undermine trust as NPR's Windsor Johnston reports." Molly Quinn says her therapist recorded her using an AI note taking tool, without her consent.
"If that like a violation and the more that I thought about it, I'd just start getting more and more sick to my stomach." Many therapists are increasingly using AI tools to transcribe sessions, to generate notes for insurance and medical records. Mercalyn is a couple's therapist in New York, who refuses to use the technology.
"Flyance?" No, like something is listening to them, and that can alter their disclosure. The therapist Kim Tulsen says the technology can reduce clinician burnout. The amount of time we spent on the admin is giving therapists her lives back. Molly Quinn eventually found a new therapist.
NPR's Windsor Johnston reporting "This is NPR News." Federal prosecutors have charged two men with using AI to create nude videos and photos under a new law targeting deep-fake pornography.
Here among the first charge under the Take It Down Act, signed last year by President
Trump, the law adds stricter penalties for publishing AI-created deep-fakes. Tonight is Stephen Colbert's final show on CBS, Steve Futterman reports the cancellation of the show has brought accusations that the move could have a political motive. Last July, CBS made this stunning announcement that Stephen Colbert would be going off the air.
The network will be ending the late show in May. There were immediate suggestions that the move was to win favor with Donald Trump, and to way to get approval for the merger of CBS's parent company Paramount with Skydance Media. Many Colbert fans like Collette Divine feel there is a connection.
“They wanted this Skydance merger and everything to go through, and Trump said, "You know what?”
I don't like this guy making fun of me all the time. If you get rid of him, then I'll make sure it goes through." CBS claims the move is purely financial that the show despite having the largest audience in late night TV has been losing millions. For MPR News, I'm Steve Futterman in New York.
Kyle Bush, the winningist overall driver and NASCAR history has died at age 41, his family said today he had been hospitalized with a severe illness. He had been planning to compete in this weekend's Coca-Cola 600 in Charlotte, North Carolina during a race earlier this month, Bush radioed into his crew requesting medical aid after the race.
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