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Senate Republicans will gather today on Capitol Hill for their weekly meeting.
“The lawmakers are expected to discuss their bill to fund immigration enforcement.”
As NPR's Barbara Sprunt reports, the package has been stalled. Senators were initially caught by surprise by the White House's proposal to establish
a nearly $2 billion anti-weaponization fund, something that drew bipartisan backlash.
While Makers feared it could pay funds to people convicted of assaulting police officers during the attack on the Capitol building on January 6. Senate Republicans have been pushing the administration to abandon the program. After the Justice Department said it will abide by a court order temporarily blocking the fund, Republicans may be back on track to passing a reconciliation package that
would fund immigration's and customs enforcement and border patrol through 2029. In southern Lebanon, two children and their father are among the least 10 people dead from Israeli strikes. President Trump intervenes today to stop Israel from attacking Beirut as Iran called off peace talks with the U.S. until the Israeli invasion of Lebanon ended.
“NPR's Jawad Riskullah has more from Beirut.”
The new deadly Israeli attacks on southern Lebanon threatened to derail Trump's efforts
at the ceasefire deal with Iran. Iran has conditioned any ceasefire deal with the U.S. must include a truce in Lebanon. President Trump said he spoke representatives of the Iran-backed Hezbollah who agreed to stop shooting at the Israeli soldiers, and he said Israel had agreed to do the same. The Lebanese embassy in Washington further clarified Hezbollah had agreed to a U.S. proposal
for the mutual cessation of attacks. And the embassy said under this agreement, Israel wouldn't strike the Capitol Beirut, although attacks continue elsewhere and Hezbollah wouldn't strike Israel. The attacks between Israeli and Lebanese officials are set to resume this week in Washington. Jawad Riskullah, NPR News, Beirut.
President Trump has signed an AI executive order.
The White House says it is aimed at advancing innovation and security.
“Meanwhile, artificial intelligence companies are moving towards public stock offerings.”
As NPR's Scott Horsley reports, that will give investors an opportunity to place bets on a booming part of the U.S. economy. An anthropic has filed paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission in a preliminary step towards selling stock to the public, and anthropic makes the popular AI chat-bought clawed.
Private investors have already valued the company at nearly $1 trillion. The man for artificial intelligence has boosted in the fortunes of companies to provide the building blocks, stocks of both Marvel technologies, and Generac her up, Marvel designs chips for data centers, while Generac provides backup power. After all prices have been bouncing up and down, but the U.S. benchmark is back above $90
a barrel. Triple A says retail gasoline prices dipped about three cents a gallon overnight. Scott Horsley and Pair News, Washington. It's primary day in six election states. It's NPR.
AI is often blamed for recent job losses, but new research from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York suggests working remotely may have driven up unemployment rates among younger college graduates, and PR's Andrea Shoe reports. The study began with a deep dive into one Fortune 500 tech company. Researchers found when the company went to remote work after the pandemic, they switched
away from hiring young people. University of Virginia Economist Emma Harrington is one of the study's authors, so they used to hire a bunch of new grads for their software engineering jobs, then they shifted really towards hiring much older people. Who needed less training, less mentoring, but when the company implemented an aggressive
return to office policy, they resumed hiring new grads. The researchers found similar trends across the economy in occupations that can be done remotely, unemployment rose for college graduates under the age of 29, and fell slightly for those over, Andrea Shoe and PR News. The Vegas Golden Knights and the Carolina Hurricanes will face off tonight in game one of
the NHL Stanley Cup final in Raleigh, North Carolina. The British government says it is sticking to its goal of net zero carbon emissions, despite pressure on energy supplies from global conflicts. It's latest target, cutting emissions by 87% of 1990 levels by the year 2042, but officials have not yet explained how they'll get there.
The UK is seeing a surge in energy prices because of supply disruptions from the Iran war, while still recovering from a previous spike in fossil fuel prices following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. This is NPR. At NPR, we stand for your right to be curious, and indulge your cultural curiosity.
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