Live from MPR News in Washington, on Corvo Colman, people are pouring over Pr...
financial disclosure form released only this week. It's nearly 1,000 pages long.
“It says Trump and his family took in more than $1 billion last year at about half of”
that, came from his family's interests in cryptocurrency. Trump says he doesn't personally handle his own investments and says that means he doesn't have any conflicts of interest. But up here, Linda Kenyan says Trump's critics disagree. Congressmen Jason Crowe called the President's crypto earnings, another example of what
he termed "grift and corruption." The Colorado Democrat also pointed out the Trump on Wednesday, was taking his first flight on a brand new Air Force one, a gift from a foreign government, Qatar, valued at more
than $400 million in will stay in the Trump realm when he leaves office.
The White House says the aircraft will be a donation to Trump's presidential library. New Year's Linda Kenyan reporting nearly 143 million people are under extreme heat warnings today. The caution's reach from Eastern Kansas to New England and farther south from Arkansas to Alabama.
“Steve Castenbaum reports from New York on the effects there of the high heat.”
The high heat is already causing a strain on the power grid in the Northeast in New York. The utility company reduced voltage in some neighborhoods. Here is Iran-Mundani, a level of heat that the city has not seen in more than a decade. The heat wave coincides with major events that are expected to draw out millions of people over the next few days, including two parades of tall ships and naval vessels.
We will also host the Macy's Fourth of July fireworks on the evening of Saturday July 4th. To cap off the weekend, the Brazil versus Norway FIFA World Cup match will take place on the afternoon of Sunday July 5th. Leaders of cooling centers and drinking water stations have been open to the public. For NPR News, I'm Steve Castenbaum in New York.
The Trump administration has lifted export restrictions on two of M-throbbing's newest artificial intelligence models. And Throbbing has agreed to give the government early access to new cutting edge AI models.
“And NPR's John Ruich tells us it will also hand over intelligence on threats.”
And Throbbing took Mithos 5 and Fable 5 off-line earlier this month after the administration imposed export controls on them on national security grounds that would have effectively banned foreigners from using them. Now after weeks of negotiations, Anthropics says the Commerce Department has lifted the export ban.
In a statement Anthropics says it addressed the initial cybersecurity concern that sparked the export controls, it says going forward, it will give the government pre-release access to frontier models that advance capabilities relevant to national security. It will also share threat intelligence and scale up work with the government on AI security. John Ruich and PR News.
And you're listening to NPR News from Washington. Officials in Qatar say they hosted separate meetings with envoys from the U.S. and Iran. The U.S. and Iranian envoy did not hold direct talks. Qatar says there was positive progress in the discussions, and says the next meeting will come quickly.
Iran first wants to hold a funeral for former Supreme Leader, Ayatoll Ali Hamanay.
Israel assassinated him on the first day of the war. Russia is firing at Ukraine and at its capital, Kiev. Ukrainian officials say that over night, hundreds of Russian drones and dozens of missiles have killed at least 13 people and wounded scores of others. Ukrainians have been sheltering in subway stations and in bomb shelters.
Meanwhile, a majority of Russians are feeling pessimistic about their country's economic future. That's the finding from a new poll, as NPR's Charles Mains reports from Moscow. The findings come from a Gallup public opinion survey done in April and May of this year. It found the solid majority of Russians 60% don't feel optimistic about the economy compared
to just over a quarter who thought life was getting better. That marks the highest decline in Russian's economic confidence in 20 years says Gallup. The findings come as Russia's economy, shown signs of slowing down as the conflict in Ukraine grinds through its fifth year. We mall some argue Russian dissatisfaction is underrepresented in Gallup and other surveys.
Critics of polling in Russia have long argued that laws criminalizing criticism of the government or the war, skewed the number of responses in favor of state policies. Charles Mains impure news. Moscow. Corva Coleman, NPR News in Washington.
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