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reports that employers added 172,000 jobs in May about double what was initially projected.
“The unemployment rate was steady at 4.3% of the wake of today's numbers and higher inflation”
the Fed may continue to resist lowering interest rates. After months of trying, Senate Republicans have advanced funding for President Trump's immigration enforcement agenda.
The 70 billion is enough to last for the rest of Trump's time in the White House.
That was not without drama, though, as bipartisan group of lawmakers tried but failed to block the president's anti-weaponization fund. Here's NPR's Eric McDaniel. At one point, Republicans thought this could be a straightforward party-line process. Then, President Trump launched the nearly $2 billion pot of taxpayer money that could
be used to make payouts to, among others, January 6th, insurrectionists. That complicated the path to passage lawmakers of both parties were upset and the fund was the target of multiple amendment votes during the all-day debate on this package. Now the deal hits to the House, which is expected to take up the legislation and send it to the president's desk before leaving town this weekend.
Eric McDaniel and Pianu's the capital.
Several Republicans and Congress have been pushing back on President Trump's choice of
the billpalty to serve as acting director of national intelligence. And Pierce Frank Ordonia says Trump's D&I choice and his support for an anti-weaponization fund, or sparking step-up GOP criticism. Critics argue that the president's pushing the envelope too far, but more likely it all comes down to the political calendar.
John McHenry of veteran Republican strategists says Republicans are looking ahead to the midterms. We are largely through the primaries, where the president can do the most damaged people
“who cross them within his own party, and moving on to the general where I think some”
people either feel a little bit more vulnerable, or feel like they need to, you know, any year that doesn't look great for Republicans right now, want to establish their own record.
But he says it'd be wrong to call the president a lame duck.
Noting that Trump has been counted out several times before, only to wield his influence again, Frank out, or down yes, NPR news. The American Artificial Intelligence Company and Thropic wants a globe to hit pause on the technology's development, the maker of the Claude Chapatses there needs to be a break pedal on the system to protect humanity.
I, expert and humanology.au, founder Scott Spira raises concerns about a technology that advances on its own without human intervention. If the AI doesn't have a moral compass built in, and how do we know how that AI is going to treat us? Nobody knows this yet.
“And Thropic is suggesting the pause while also planning to take the company public.”
You're listening to NPR news, the size of a massive plan, data center campus in rural Utah is getting smaller. Here's KUER is Martha Harris. The original plan for the data center campus had it on 40,000 acres north of the Great Salt Lake.
The project is backed by Kevin O'Leary, who was known for being on the TV show Shark Tank. Utah leaders had supported the project, but there's been significant public opposition. That motivated the president of Utah's state senate, Stewart Adams, to demand that O'Leary shrink the project, and make certain environmental commitments. O'Leary has now responded, saying he'll cut the project's footprint in half.
He said most of what's left will be open space. That means less than 10,000 acres can be developed. Fran PR news, I'm Martha Harris in Salt Lake City. A group of Catholic sisters who've gone viral for their court side prayers for the spurs during the NBA playoffs are back for the finals.
From Texas Public Radio, Brian Kirkpatrick reports. "Sister Bernadette Mota is among the sisters from San Antonio's St. John Bosco, who's been coming to home games to cheer on the spurs. Mota stresses they have not been praying for spurs opponents to lose." God loves all the teams, and God loves all the players, and so, God doesn't love one
team more than the other, but what we really pray for and hope for is that all that can fight to their best of their ability." Mota says the sisters use sports to connect with the at-risk youths they serve. She says sports can teach young people, team work, values, and morals, if done right. I'm Brian Kirkpatrick in San Antonio."
This is NPR News. This week on Consider This, the drama at CBS News, some of the most respected journalists in America say their corporate ownership is bowing to political pressure. "It's intimidation, they've created a climate of fear to make the news organization unwilling to tackle the problem and report to news."
All of the time 60 minutes correspondent Steve Croft, this week on Consider This, listen
