"Life from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston.
President Trump says he'll make a final determination on Iran.
“The administration says it's close to an agreement with Tehran that could extend the current”
ceasefire for 60 days and reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Negotiators appear to be making progress, but major questions remain about Iran's nuclear program. The State of Pratoparsi in expert on U.S. Iran relations says there are signs of a possible deal."
The U.S. I'd want to have the complete Iranian stockpile of highly-enrich Iranian to be shipped out of the country and destroyed.
In the past, the Iranians have agreed to ship out up to 98 percent of it, but they've
kept an portion of it on their own. So, the U.S. wants to go to 100 percent. The Iranians have resisted, but this seems to be a pathway for a compromise on that issue. Iran has not publicly signed on to any agreement. The two sides have exchanged fire in recent days with President Trump threatening to return
to a full-scale war.
“A judge in Kenya has temporarily suspended the setup of an Ebola quarantine facility.”
From Nairobi, Michael Coloki reports the U.S. has a role in the proposed center. In an order issued late Thursday, Kenya's high court said that the country was not allowed to admit anyone exposed to or infected by Ebola. Under an agreement between Kenya and the U.S. for the establishment of a quarantine facility locally.
The court was responding to a case brought before it by the rights group the Katiba Institute, challenging the setup of the quarantine site. The White House had earlier said the U.S. was setting up a facility in Kenya where Americans who had been exposed to Ebola would be quarantined, adding that those exhibiting symptoms
of the disease would be moved to a third country.
What can your high court say that its order is spending plans for the quarantine facility will remain in force until the case before it is finalized. For NPR News, Michael Coloki in Nairobi
“protests at an ice detention center in Newark, New Jersey have stretched into a seventh day.”
Bruce Conviser reports the demonstrations have at times turned violent. Protesters and ice agents have clashed periodically at Delaney Hall over the past week. Videos and images from local media show demonstrators have attempted to physically block vehicles from leaving the facility. Ice agents have responded to the blockades with pepper spray and physical force.
Their reports that hundreds of detainees are on a hunger and labor strike protesting the conditions inside the facility. Democratic representatives that toward Delaney Hall this week said detainees have been given food that had maggots in it. The New Jersey Department of Health sought to inspect the facility but was denied full access.
Governor Mikey Cheryl said denying access raises questions about what ice is trying to hide. For NPR News, I'm Bruce Conviser. On Wall Street, the Del was up 294 points, the Nasdaq up 26. This is NPR News. Anthropic is now Silicon Valley's most valuable AI company surpassing OpenAI's chat
GPT and PR's John Ruitt's reports.
Anthropic just raised $65 billion in fresh funding from investors to develop and deploy its
AI models. When the company says that means it's worth $965 billion. That figure is more than double its stated value after a funding round in February. It also makes it bigger than OpenAI, the maker of chat GPT, which at the end of March said it had a valuation of $852 billion.
Anthropic has been in the headlines recently after a clash with the Trump administration over how its AI models can be used by the military. It also said in April, it decided not to release a new model called Claude Mythos due to concerns that it could help hackers find software vulnerabilities. But the Claude models it has on the market have been extremely popular.
It says the new investment will partly help expand computing power to meet growing demand. John Ruitt's NPR News The federal judge is allowing President Trump's election executive order to remain an effect for now, the order would create a nationwide voter list and limit voting by mail. The judge rejected a request from Democrats and voting rights groups to temporarily block
the measure while a legal challenge plays out. The plaintiffs in the case argue the order exceeds presidential authority over elections. Stokes continued to trade higher at the Sauron Wall Street, the dell up 318 points the S&P up 13. This is NPR News in Washington
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