Live from NPR news in Washington, on Ryland Barton, Congress is on the verge ...
a massive infusion of cash to the homeland security department.
“The Senate passed a $70 billion package to fund ice and border patrol through the end”
of Trump's term. It now heads to the House, an immigrant rights advocate called it an ATM for ice. The funding all that guarantees an uninterrupted flow of money to carry out President Trump's immigration enforcement agenda.
The Justice Department says it will give $300 million to up to four mid-sized U.S.
cities to help reduce violent crime, funds from the model cities initiative can be used for things like increasing police activity in high crime areas or new technology like drones and AI. But as NPR's make Anderson reports, there is a catch. In a video statement, acting attorney general Todd Blanch signaled that the successful applications
will have something in common. They will come from jurisdictions that offer true partnership. The grant program website clarifies that any applicant that does not cooperate with federal immigration law will not be funded.
“In his video, Blanch highlighted federal intervention in Washington, D.C. and Memphis, Tennessee”
as successes. But a recent study found the federal presence in D.C. has had little effect on violent crime there, and likewise, in Memphis, the vast majority of arrests have been for non-violent crimes. After a week of conflicts, firing and front-page drama, the three remaining correspondence
for 60 minutes, say they will stay with the hit CBS News show, NPR's David Falkenflick reports Leslie Stahl, Bill Whittaker, and John Worthheim had weighed leaving after their executive producer executive editor three correspondence and two producers were fired by the network.
Their memo was first obtained and reported by NPR.
The three remaining correspondence wrote that they were heartbroken by the treatment of their colleagues. The three wrote that the fired colleagues were treated shabby while trying to stand up for the independence and integrity of the program.
“The statements that they were staying because, quote, "We don't want to see 60 minutes”
die." Editor-in-chief Barry Weiss brought in new executive producer Nick Bilton. Weiss has argued that CBS has been too reflexively anti-president Trump and anti-Israel, and she raised questions about reporting this past season. Built-in has made pledges to protect the show's independence, and he welcomed story
pitches involving Trump. David Falkenflick and PR News.
And Thropic is proposing that top AI companies coordinate a way to pause the development
of advanced AI systems if they become too dangerous. The company behind the Claude chatbot says the technology is improving so quickly that there's a risk humans could lose control and Thropic suggests giving the world an option to slow or temporarily pause AI development. The company plans to research ways to implement this pause, noting that AI models are getting
faster, doubling their task capabilities every four months. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have briefly taken shelter during a repair to fix a new leak, the five astronauts moved to the docked SpaceX capsule while cosmonauts worked to fix the leak on the Russian side of the orbiting laboratory.
NASA says this was done out of an abundance of caution. The new report finds that U.S. children spend nearly four more hours on screens per week during the summer than the school year, and appears a reto-chattergy reports. The report was released by Aura, an online safety company that also has a parental monitoring app for kids devices.
It found that among kids age 7 to 12 years, screen time jumped by 30% in the summer compared to the school year. For teens, it rose by 15% and summer weekday screen use for both age groups data that we can levels. Psychologists, Lauren Lee, at Aura, says nighttime screen news was also high during the
summer months. One in 10 kids are still active on their devices, even at midnight, and we're seeing messaging rates, nighttime messaging rates more than doubling across all age groups compared to fall. While younger kids spend most of their screen time using YouTube and Roblox, teenagers prefer
social media apps, reto-chattergy and peer news. The federal judge has blocked a plan to loosen rules for phishing red snapper in the Atlantic, halting what was expected to be the longest recreational snapper season in years. The issue pits recreational anglers against commercial fishermen and activists. The dispute highlights tensions over science and the Trump administration's rollback
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