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Senators Thursday were working towards passage of a bill that would fund President Trump's
immigration enforcement agencies.
“The bill would fund agencies in the Department of Homeland Security, including immigration”
and customs enforcement and the Border Patrol. Ohio Republican Senator Bernie Moreno spoke in favor of the bill, saying it would take illegal immigrants he claims or criminals off the streets." The names are endless. What we're here to do is fund ICE and Border Patrol to make sure that another American
citizen dies at the hands of any legal. Republicans are still facing a long list of amendments proposed by Democrats before the bill can advance. The Lebanese militant militia group has, Boba, is rejecting a proposed ceasefire between
Israel and Lebanon and insisting Israel withdraw its forces first, and P.R.'s J.N.R.
reports. The leader of the Iran-backed group, which was not part of the talks, said in the statement that negotiations between Lebanon and Israel were, quote, "observed, humiliating, and insulting." The two countries agreed Wednesday in Washington to a ceasefire that stipulated that his Bolub but not Israel stopped attacks.
The agreement also called for a demilitarized zone in parts of southern Lebanon. Now occupied by Israeli forces. His Bolub leader, named Possum, said the demand for its fighters to leave southern Lebanon while under attack would mean, quote, "surrender, defeat, and achieving the enemy's goals."
J.N.R.F. and P.R. News, Bay Route. A majority of Americans use artificial intelligence to research what they're curious about, according to a quente-backed poll. But the Bank of America Institute found only 3% of American households in February paid to use AI, and PR's Stephen Bassaha has more on the story on advanced AI and how it could
require users to subscribe. Subscribing to AI platforms like chatGBT gets you more advanced features and fewer restrictions.
But open AI's head of chatGBT, Nick Turley plans for their always to be a free version.
“"It's very important to us that if we can't offer something for free, we will.”
So the free product isn't going anywhere." Shortly, did not make that promise for a chatGBT's eventual successor. Likely, an AI more like a personal assistant and more expensive to run. "And those capabilities might be so advanced that it requires us to charge for them." While the number of paid AI users in February was small, it did grow 10% from a year earlier.
Stephen Bassaha and P.R. News. Former National Security Advisor and one-time UN Ambassador John Bolton is agreed to plead guilty to a single felony count for illegally retaining classified information. The plea deal with the Justice Department will keep Bolton from serving a prison term. This is NPR.
Less than a week after a federal judge ordered references to President Trump be removed from the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington, the leadership of the Arts Facility Thursday said it was beginning to remove email signatures that had another documents with Trump's name on it. The judge ruled the deletions must be done by July the 12th when he ruled the Kennedy
Center's board illegally added Trump's name to the facility. The judge also blocked the Trump administration from closing the venue for up to two years for repairs that Trump says are needed. The World Soccer Cup is set to start one week from today and NPR analysis finds that more than one and three World Cup matches face dangerous heat risk.
NPR's Rebekah Herster reports that includes the final. NPR found 39 of the 104 World Cup matches this summer are very likely to see dangerously hot humid weather. Donald Mullin studies heat risk at Queen's University Bellfast. Obviously, if you schedule these matches in the mid-afternoon, some of these hottest locations
then that's your recipe for disasters. For example, the World Cup final is scheduled for 3 p.m. on July 19th in New Jersey.
“What game is at high risk for dangerous heat in humidity?”
FIFA says extra water breaks will help protect players, but did not respond to questions about exactly how fans will be protected. Rebecca Herster and Pair News. Game 2 of the NBA Finals is Friday night in San Antonio. The New York Knicks won game one of the 7 game series with a 105 to 95 win Wednesday night.
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