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Searching rescue teams are pulling survivors from the rubble this morning after two
“powerful earthquake struck Venezuela less than a minute of part last night.”
NPR's John Oda says the epicenter was west of Caracas but the destruction stretched across one of the country's most densely populated regions. From photos and videos, the damage looks quite extensive, you can see huge clouds of dust rising into the sky over collapsed buildings and rescue workers pulling survivors out of the rubble on stretchers.
People were ducking for cover under tables at restaurants and dashing out of their homes into the streets. NPR's John Oda's reporting official say at least 164 people are dead as rescue crews continue searching through collapsed buildings, more than 900 others have been injured. Acting President Elsie Rodriguez has declared a state of emergency urging people to remain
alert for aftershocks. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is touring Gulf Arab states to discuss an interim peace deal between the U.S. and Iran.
“NPR's A.A.A. the trial we reports Rubio is wrapping up his visit today with a summit”
of Gulf foreign ministers in Bahrain after stops in the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait.
Rubio says he's in the Gulf to thank Arab states for their quote "incredible support
throughout the war and to engage them about decisions going forward." Iran accused Gulf Arab states of allowing U.S. forces to launch attacks from their territory during the war. Iran targeted these countries with missiles and drones that hit bases but also energy infrastructure airports and residential areas.
Despite this, Rubio says the security partnership remains strong. The interim agreement with the U.S. focuses on curbing Iran's nuclear program. Its missile and drone capabilities are not part of the deal. A.A.B. Troy and Pair News Dubai The coalition of publishers representing nearly 400 newspapers has filed a lawsuit against
open AI and Microsoft that accuses the companies of stealing copyrighted material to build
“artificial intelligence models and PRs John Ruich reports.”
Even if 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 Ruich and PR news.
This is NPR News in Washington. The head of the U.S. Postal Service as the agency is responding to an executive order by President Trump by proposing not to deliver mail-in ballots and states that refused to turn over their voter list to the federal government. NPR's Hansi Low-Long reports the proposal is facing multiple lawsuits that are trying
to block it. At a hearing on Capitol Hill, Democratic Senator Gary Peters and Michigan as Postmaster General David Steinner about President Trump's order, it calls for the U.S. Postal Service to maintain lists of eligible voters. If a state refuses to turn their absentee voter list over to the federal government, will
the Postal Service still mail their ballots under this proposal under our proposed regulation no. Five lawsuits by Democrats on the two dozen states and voting rights groups are arguing the Constitution gives power to state legislatures and Congress, not the president to set federal election rules.
They also argue the Postal Service has no authority to refuse to deliver ballots to voters because they are not on a list, U.S. B.S. is a financial support of NPR, a court ruling on whether to block Trump's order may come as soon as this month, Azila Wong and PR News. A new AP North Pole finds most Americans face scam attempts every day, and nearly three and ten say they've lost money or personal information.
A separate Gallup survey found about one in ten U.S. adults said they were someone in their household lost money to a scam last year, with nearly half losing more than $500. World surveys found few victims reported the scams to federal or local law enforcement. This is NPR News. This is our glass.
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