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President Trump is set to deliver a prime time address tonight that he says will focus
in part on elections.
“The speech could include information related to the 2020 election, which Trump falsely claimed”
he won. The speech comes as the President pushes Republicans to pass new federal voting restrictions ahead of the November midterm elections. The U.S. continues to intensify its airstrikes against Iran, and PR's Hedil al-Shalti reports American forces struck Iranian targets in multiple locations, or the last 24 hours.
The U.S. military said it struck an unladen oil tanker attempting to sail toward an Iranian port in the Arabian Gulf. It said the ship ignored warnings and violated the U.S. blockade.
There was no immediate comment from Iran.
U.S. central command also said it has been redirecting compliant commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz. The U.S. intensified its attacks on Iranian military targets for a fifth day, and Iran responded by targeting U.S. bases in the Gulf and Jordan.
“The status of the ceasefire talks is currently unknown, but Iranian diplomats said they have”
been in contact with mediators. Hedil al-Shalti NPR News Istanbul delegations from 65 countries are gathering at the State Department today for a counter-terrorism conference, and PR's Michelle Kellerman reports the Trump administration is using the meeting to press governments to confront left-wing political violence.
This State Department says Secretary Rubio will use his speech to describe far-left political
terrorism as a "real and transnational threat" that is "researching," because it "a unique evil rooted in a deep resentment toward civilization." While many in Europe have raised concerns about right-wing political violence and official and rubios department tells reporters that countries have a handle on that, and says countries have a blind spot when it comes to violence from the far-left.
Michelle Kellerman and PR News the State Department. Senators are reacting to acting attorney-general Todd Blanch's testimony after a rocky confirmation
“hearing on Capitol Hill yesterday, Democratic Senator Cory Booker tells NPR that Blanch”
is using the department to protect President Trump and pursue his perceived enemies. Using his office to go after Donald Trump's perceived enemies like Jim Komi for putting seashells in the sand and shapes all of these things are painting a picture of somebody that is not pursuing justice, but is using the justice system as a shield to protect Donald Trump and is a sword to go after his enemies.
Blanch needs a simple majority of 51 votes to be confirmed as Attorney General in the Senate assuming all 100 senators are present and voting. This is NPR. A group of former meta-employees is suing the parent company of Facebook, the suit argues that it used artificial intelligence to make layoffs in ways that violated the law.
NPR's John Rwitch reports meta says the claims lack merit. The plaintiffs are a group of 26 unnamed former employees at meta. Their lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court in Oakland, California says meta used a " constellation of internal artificial intelligence systems" to assess employees on a set of metrics that were then used to inform layoffs in May.
The company cut about a tenth of its workforce. The plaintiffs say the company did not take into account protected leave and approved absences like medical, pregnancy, or paternal leave. They argue, in effect, that the AI systems targeted them as under-performers. Meta says in a statement that claims lack merit and are not based in fact, it says workforce
management and organizational decisions are made by people, not AI. John Rwitch and PR News The New York Times is asking a federal court to block justice department subpoenas issued to journalists who reported on security concerns surrounding the plane gifted by Qatar and intended to serve as Air Force One.
The sealed filing sets up a potentially significant legal fight over press freedom and the government's power to compel reporters to reveal confidential sources. The journalists were ordered to testify before a federal grand jury in subpoenas delivered last Friday. A lawyer for the Times says the demands violate the constitutional rights of the newspaper
and its reporters. This is NPR. The last time Antonio May's senior heard from his son, it was in a note the 16-year-old left in the family's garage. He told me he would not make me cry.
Antonio Jr. left home to join a protest in Seattle, a week later he was shot and killed there. Listen to we keep us safe on the embedded podcast from NPR.
