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President Trump says he intends to nominate one of his former personal attorneys to serve
“as the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.”
James McDonald was a former U.S. assistant U.S. attorney there, and Pierce D. Fashiver on has more. Trump posted on social media that he'll nominate McDonald to replace Jay Clayton, whose Trump's pick to be the new director of national intelligence. McDonald formally worked for Trump in the case of Trump's hush money conviction appeal.
That case was around Trump concealing payments to adult film stars, Stormy Daniels.
He also worked in the first Trump administration, and in the White House Council's office
under President George W. Bush. Trump's decision comes after pushback for his original pick for director of national intelligence Bill Pulti, who had no intelligence experience. Both in the U.S. and Iran say the signing of a piece still is imminent, but they disagree on when it will happen.
President Trump posted on social media, it will happen tomorrow, but a top Iranian official doesn't think it will be that soon. And Pierce Caricon has more. Trump posted that a deal to end fighting between the U.S. and Iran is "scheduled to get
“signed on Sunday, any added that the straight of Hormuz, a key transport route for the world's”
oil and gas supply, will be "open to all."
Pakistani officials who have been key mediators that a deal was expected within 24 hours and would be signed electronically, but on Saturday, spokesman for Iran's Foreign Ministry said a deal was coming, but quote, "We will have to wait and see about the exact date adding it will not be Sunday." Neither side has provided details of an agreement other than Iran would open the straight
the U.S. would lift its blockade and the current ceasefire would be extended for 60 days. Caricon and PR news, Tel Aviv. And Thropic, abruptly shut down its latest AI models, this after the Trump administration banned the use of those models by foreign nationals yesterday, and Pierce John Roowich reports.
According to a statement from anthropic, the government's directive cited unspecified national security concerns.
“It ordered a suspension of access by foreign nationals to Anthropics, Fable 5 and Mythos”
5 models, that includes foreigners inside and outside the U.S. and even foreigners working for Anthropic. The Mythos AI model has been a source of buzz in recent months, Anthropic decided not to release it to the public in March because the company believed it could potentially help hackers exploit computer security flaws.
So it came up with a workaround, Fable 5, an advanced model with extensive safeguards was released this week, Anthropic says it thinks the government is concerned that there may be a way to jailbreak the model to get around those safeguards, but Anthropic says it disagrees with the ban, John Roowich and PR news. You're listening to NPR news from Washington.
In Senegal, roughly 1 in 10 children are a cutely malnourished. U.S. foreign aid helped get lifesaving therapeutic food to those children, but his NPR's Jonathan Lambert reports, "Aid cuts are causing food shortages." Ready to use therapeutic food can bring a malnourished child back from the brink. Historically, families in Senegal had to go to a doctor to get this, but U.S. foreign aid
helped equip community health workers to bring this product closer to kids. The Trump administration's massive cuts to foreign aid in 2025 have led to shortages that are still affecting families. Playing noms malnourished nephew had been getting better through the program. Health officials say that this kind of relapses happening to children across the region
as a result of the aid cuts. The State Department did not respond to questions about the shortages. Jonathan Lambert and PR news Pope Leo's flight home from his visit to Spain ended out being grounded because of technical problems yesterday, but Leo didn't have to worry about finding a ride home.
Spain's King Philip, let him catch a ride on his private jet. The pond of the weeklong trip to Madrid, Barcelona in the Canary Islands, was successful as Leo pressed his migration message and he also inaugurated the new tower of the Sagrada Familia, Basilica. In Rome, thousands gathered for rival protests over the issue of migration and new
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