Live from MMPR News, I'm Jail Snyder.
Rescue workers underway in Caracas after back to back-earth quakes, acting Venezuelan president
“Delci Rodriguez as declared a state of emergency and says at least 32 people are now confirmed”
dead in some 700 injured. She's warning the total will rise as rescue research collapsed buildings and emergency crews reach heavily damaged areas. For the Maria Grateral is in Caracas. When the earthquake started, I was in my house and it was like a super hard, it was,
I mean, before I had not experienced something like that, you could see how the walls were moving and everything was moving around too. So we, as far as we could, we got out of the, off the apartment and we went to a, like, to a square.
President Trump was on the national ball Wednesday evening kicking off what's called
the Great American State Fair of 16-day events celebrating the nation's 250th birthday. 10 days from now our country will celebrate one of the most monumental milestones in human history.
“We will mark 250 years of glorious American freedom.”
Drop headline the opening night after several musical acts dropped out, citing concerns that it had become politicized. Trump's campaign style speech cap today in which he held a tense capital hell meeting with congressional publicans following Tuesday Senate passage of a war power's resolution on Iran following that meeting, senators took a late night vote Wednesday and blocked
a similar war power's measure. Also Wednesday, Trump canceled a signing ceremony for a bill aimed at making housing
more affordable, more affordable, saying he wants Congress to first pass legislation
that would require proof of citizenship for all voters. Also, a federal judge dealt a set back to the administration's elections agenda, barring the president from implementing most of his first executive order on elections. Coalition of publishers representing nearly 400 newspapers as filed suit against open AI
“and Microsoft and P.R. Sean Ruach reports on this latest and a string of lawsuits alleging”
that the company stole copyrighted material to build artificial intelligence models. Kind of say this is the biggest coalition of local newspapers yet to sue open AI and Microsoft for violating protections under the Copyright Act. They say the company's systematically and willfully stole copyrighted news articles to build AI products like chatGPT and Microsoft Copilot.
The case is the latest in a raft of lawsuits accusing AI companies of scraping copyrighted material from the web to train models. The coalition includes Pulitzer Prize winning publications like the Riverdale Press and the Concord Monitor and the New York Amsterdam News, one of the oldest black-owned news papers in the U.S., Open AI and Microsoft did not have an immediate comment.
John Ruach and P.R. News. This is NPR. The Mexico Governor Michelle Mohan Grisham is taking the drug enforcement to administration to task after the Associated Press reported that federal agents allowed hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills to reach the streets over a two-year period, and AP investigations has a
DEA allowed major shipments to go unseased to build bigger drug trafficking cases. In a strongly worded statement Wednesday, the Governor called for an investigation into whether federal authorities broke state law. In Utah County Commissioners have voted to clear the way for a massive data center from Utah Public Radio Brock Martian reports.
Box Elder County Commissioners, Boyd Bingham and Leap Harry, were among those who voted last month to let a state agency create the Stratus Project area. This would give up the county's local land use control over the planned 20,000 acre data center campus, and both conceded defeat the challengers in the Republican primary. Brigham City resident Brandon Black says the Stratus Project pushed him not to vote for
either commissioner. I was pretty disappointed with the incumbents. The plan data center campus has such as many in the county and state worried about how much water it will use and how it will impact the environment. For NPR news, I'm Brock Martian in Farmington, Utah.
Now to Texas, we're camp mystic as filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy. The filing Wednesday comes nearly a year after catastrophic flooding in the Texas Hill Country killed 25 campers and two teenage counselors. The owner of the camp was also killed in the flood that hit over the 4th of July weekend families of the victims filed a lawsuit to November.
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