"Live from NPR News in Washington on Ryland Barton.
the leader of the Trend Day Iraqua gang with the help of the Venezuelan government,
“and a social media post Trump said a swift and lethal kinetic strike has killed Hector”
Rustin Ford Guerrero Flores, who he called the infamous leader of the gang. The U.S. labeled Trendar Iraqua as a terrorist organization at the beginning of Trump's second term. Fares of SpaceX, sword 19% in its Wall Street debut, today making CEO Elon Musk the first ever trillionaire. The closing price has the value of SpaceX well above $2 trillion, but his NPR's Jeff Brumfield reports that the business might not really be worth that much.
"Even SpaceX's supporters would tell you the business as it is today is not worth $2 trillion." According to the financial documents released ahead of the IPO, SpaceX is actually losing
money at last $5 billion last year, and another $4 billion in the first quarter of this year.
A lot of those losses are due to the AI side of the business, which used to be Musk's other company XAI. It's been burning cash at this incredible rate."
“NPR's Jeff Brumfield reporting, the Justice Department has approved paramounts acquisition”
of Warner Brothers' discovery, NPR's Emma Bowman reports the merger would unite two rival studio giants and raises questions about creative and editorial independence. Paramount owned CBS, including CBS News. It's swallowing the much larger Warner, which includes HBO and CNN. They anti-trust investigation into the proposed $10 billion merger found no threat to competition or consumers of film, broadcast television, or streaming,
but several states including California still have anti-trust concerns. An industry unions fear the loss of thousands of jobs. In a statement after the decision, paramount said the deal would result in a stronger company better position to compete against dominant technology platforms,
and ultimately benefit both consumers and creators. Emma Bowman and PR News.
Oregon's Department of Corrections is facing a class action lawsuit to end solitary confinement Oregon Public Broadcasting's Conrad Wilson reports. Oregon's Constitution prohibits the quote harsh degrading or dehumanizing treatment of prisoners. The out-according to the lawsuit, hundreds of adults in the state's prisons are held alone, inside small windowless rooms often for months. The state limits disciplinary segregation to 90 consecutive days,
that's far longer than neighboring states, says Ben Hale, an attorney with the Oregon Justice Resource Center, which is representing the adults in custody. Oregon has certainly become an outlier in these disciplinary solitary confinement, which in some ways is the most punitive. State data show a recent upward trend of adults in custody held in solitary. The Oregon Department of Corrections says it's committed to safe and humane operations.
For MPR News, I'm Conrad Wilson in Portland. This is NPR News from Washington. The EU is starting membership talks with Ukraine next week. Ukraine views EU membership as a
“crucial security guarantee for its future after the war with Russia. The process can take years.”
EU leaders have praised Ukraine's reforms despite challenges posed by the conflict. Some countries want to offer Ukraine associate membership to speed up integration. New research on workers in the medical field takes a closer look at their ability to prevent the leading cause of maternal mortality worldwide. Our annual has more on the study. Postpartum hemorrhage, or excessive bleeding after childbirth, affects 27 million women each
year and kills 43,000. In the delivery room, it can be a race against time. Says Adam DeVal, professor of maternal health at the University of Oxford. If you intervene early enough, you can then give treatments promptly.
To do so, DeVal says it's essential to measure the blood loss rather than merely eyeballing it,
which allows medical workers to identify and treat these hemorrhages with multiple interventions simultaneously. All together in a trial across four African countries, this approach saw a 60% reduction in severe bleeding. For NPR News, I'm Ari Daniel. An Ohio labor union has filed a grievance over the use of goats to clear brush at a water reclamation plant in Columbus. According to local CBS affiliate 10 TV,
asks me local 1632 says the city has a blatant disregard for labor by not notifying it about the subcontractors. The scabs in question, Kevin Wilson and Marti and several dozen others don't pay dues and don't complain about long hours. This is NPR News from Washington. The world cup is back in the U.S. and the NPR network is covering the fans. Detentions. When two teams take the field, the nation's histories take the field along
side of them. The local transformations. Just world class soccer right here. And of course, the games follow along on and off the pitch with the NPR app.
