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of the nation's capital in his own image and name. Today, that changed at the Kennedy Center,
“which was forced to strip Trump's name from the building under court order, and PR's”
Frank Lankford reports from Washington, D.C. "Krystal Brewer was among the crowd who came to document the event late Friday. She sent moving Trump's name was a way to reclaim a piece of Washington from a president who's tried to put his stamp on the nation's capital." "Check some balances, accountability. It's about
not being able to do something just because you think you're the most powerful person and
you can defy the courts." A federal judge ruled that adding Trump's name to the center was illegal and required congressional approval. Workers drape the facade in tarps early Saturday, which prevented the crowd from documenting the historic reversal. Brewers said she thought it was also an attempt to spare the president further humiliation. Frank Lankford and PR News,
“Washington. "Pack of Stan, which is mediating peace talks between Iran and the United States,”
has set an expects and agreement to be finalized in the next 24 hours. The Pakistani Prime Minister said he was prepared for the truth to be signed immediately afterwards. The BBC's Joe Inlid reports." This is the strongest signal yet that an agreement has been reached. Over the last 48 hours, first the Americans, then the Iranians, and now the Pakistani mediators, have said they expect something to be signed this weekend. Prime Minister Shabbaz Sharif posted
on social media that "We are closer to a peace deal than ever before, with finalization in the next 24 hours." But what he's talking about is not actually a full peace deal, but a memorandum of understanding that would reopen the street to form moves and most likely begin unfreezing Iranian assets. "That's the BBC's Joe Inlid reporting." And Thropic says it's taken its
“latest AI models offline to comply with the directive from the Trump administration and PR's”
Matt Bloomberg reports the decision was made to prevent the reuse by foreign nationals. And Thropic says it received the directive from the government on Friday, according to a statement from the company the Trump administration's letter did not provide specifics of its national security concerns, but the company said it believed it was due to fears about potential security vulnerabilities. The export controls marked the government's most significant step to date to restrict
user access to some of the world's most advanced AI products. Fable 5 and Mythos 5 are
super powerful models that Anthropics says can work on complex projects in prompts for hours or even
days. Anthropics called the order a misunderstanding and said it hopes to restore access to the models as soon as possible. Matt Bloomberg and PR news. "This is NPR." Nearly 6% of U.S. middle and high school students vape. While that's down from previous years, E. cigarettes remain the most commonly used tobacco products among teens. Now some health experts are concerned youth vaping could rise again. The Food and Drug Administration
recently gave its first authorization to fruit flavor vapes marketed to adult smokers trying to quit or cut back on traditional cigarettes. Women in the U.S. are having fewer babies and a new paper suggests smartphones may be partly responsible. NPR Scott Horsley reports the birth rate has tumble more than 20% since the iPhone was introduced. "Social scientists have been puzzled by the persistent drop in birth rates over the last two decades. At first,
they thought it was a temporary response to the great recession, but even after the economy bounced back, births did not. So economists Caitlin Myers at Middlebury College went looking for other explanations. "When we looked for the candidates, we should be looking for things that were large shocks that started around 2007 and are affecting a lot of people." When Apple introduced the iPhone in 2007, service was initially limited to AT&T. By comparing birth rates and areas
with and without AT&T coverage, Myers found a strong link between smartphone penetration and fewer babies. Scott Horsley and PR news. Washington. The U.S. paid Paraguay for to line in their first home world cup game in more than three decades, tens of thousands of fans packed a stadium near Los Angeles for last night's matchup. The U.S. will go against Australia on Friday. This is NPR News. "This is our glass. On this American life, when they mean like, it's a good mystery. Sometimes
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