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The U.S. military has carried out fresh strikes against Iran, a U.S. official saying
“the strikes were purely defensive, shooting down four Iranian attack drones, and hitting”
an Iranian ground control station that was about to launch a fifth. The strikes came after President Trump and Gidden said Iran isn't intent on making a deal to end the war, but that Iran is negotiating on fumes. It impures my allies and reports." The threat was a familiar one from President Trump, either Iran "gives us what we want,
or we'll finish them off." The President and his party are under pressure to end the war, which is sent gas prices soaring. That's her Republican candidates in the midterm elections. But when the President was asked why he hadn't moved faster to end the war, given the
financial pain it's causing Americans, he said this. "I don't care about the midterm." The President also laid out another red line for Iran. He says he wants the straight-of-war moves to be open without any tolls. He said the straight was international waters that no single country should control.
Mar Eliason and PR news.
“Israel's military has declared a new area in southern Lebanon on a combat zone, and”
his urging residents to leave Israel released a statement Wednesday saying the military is planning to act with extreme force. Immigration courts inside the justice department drastically accelerating deportation hearings with goal of issuing more deportation orders, as it appears a meta-bustillo reports. Immigrants are now being scheduled for massive master calendar hearings, those are being called
mega-masters, that include 100 or more people at a time.
That's up from two or three dozen people at a time, which had been typical for first hearing.
Immigration lawyers told in PR that these new hearings largely target people without lawyers representing them. Those who show a belay or not at all are receiving removal orders, further truncating the already limited due process available to immigrants. In the past year, the Trump administration has pushed to streamline cases through immigration
courts. This includes moving up cases of people from specific countries and encouraging judges to review cases faster. Humanabustillo and PR news, Washington.
“More of people in the U.S. going hungry now than during the pandemic six years ago,”
PR Scott Horsesley reports on a news survey from the New York Federal Reserve Bank. The New York Fed periodically asked Americans if they're having to skip meals, rely on food donations, or receiving federal assistance to buy groceries. Results from the most recent survey show higher levels of food insecurity now than during the summer of 2020 when the coronavirus pandemic triggered double digit unemployment.
In February, one out of ten families missed meals for lack of food, but hunger was twice as common among families earning less than $50,000 a year. The results highlight what observers have called "the K-shaped economy" with rich household striving while poor families struggle. The agriculture department, which oversees the food assistance program, halted its own research on food insecurity last year.
Scott Horsesley and PR News, Washington. And you're listening to NPR News. Alabama is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to allow it to use a congressional map that favors Republicans in this year's elections. The state filed an emergency appeal Wednesday a day after a lower court's ruling that the
map intentionally discriminates against black people. The appeal is the latest development following last month's Supreme Court ruling that week in the Landmark Voting Rights Act amid a broader push by President Trump to preserve the Republican House majority.
Open AI's charitable arm is dedicating a quarter of a billion dollars to promote research
into what it says will be huge economic changes from artificial intelligence, and Piers John Ruach reports. The Open AI Foundation is committing $250 million dollars to understanding the coming changes and to support workers through the disruption. It says the economic effects of AI will be widely felt, but it still has no good ways to answer
fundamental questions about how AI is changing and will change the economy. Part of the work will be to research how to distribute the economic gains from AI more broadly. This pledge comes amid a wave of layoffs in the tech sector that are in part due to AI. It also comes after a jury threw out a lawsuit alleging that Open AI CEO Sam Altman and President Greg Brockman abandoned the non-profits mission of creating AI for the benefit
of humanity. John Ruach and PR News Major financial markets in Asia largely down in Thursday trading which depends benchmark knee-case share average trading flat. After all three U.S. indexes edge their way to fresh all-time highs, both the S&P 500
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