Live from NVR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.
The Trump administration and Saudi Arabia signed a nuclear power cooperation agreement
“that the energy department says could lead to the kingdom enriching its own fuel for”
nuclear reactors. That is, some in Congress worried that the Saudis could use the fuel for weapons. Matthew Bun, a former advisor in the Clinton administration, has more on why the Saudis would want a civilian program. They say that they would like to make nuclear energy to cover their domestic needs so
they can export more of their oil and make more money. But they also want to provide defundation over time for having more options to move toward nuclear weapons to the field of need. Speaking there on NPR's all things considered. This as the US relationship with Saudi Arabia is strained as Iran strikes countries in the
Middle East that are hosting US bases amid continuing attacks between the US and Iran.
President Trump started the war in February, and at least 18 US service members have been killed so far.
“President Trump says he'll impose tariffs on generic drugs to spur companies that make”
them to move manufacturing to the US and be our Sydney Lopkin has more. President Trump announced on truth social that he would impose a 100% tariff on generic drugs in August, 2028. The year after that, the tariff would double. More than 90% of prescriptions in the US are for generic drugs.
And most generic drugs are made outside of the US. So the president says this is an effort to push companies to build facilities here. The generic drug trade group called the Association for Accessible Medicines says that's already happening. Its president and CEO, John Murphy III, says the generic's industry has already quote "grown
a significantly in the US over the past two years," but he says generic's have faced purchasing and reimbursement problems that have made US growth challenging. Sydney Lopkin and PR News.
“The man convicted of trying to murder Salman Rushdie's going on trial again this time”
in federal court impires Ryan Lucas' more. The defendant, Hottie Mottar, was convicted in state court last year and sentenced to 25 years in prison for stabbing Salman Rushdie on stage at an event in 2022. Now, Mottar is on trial in a federal case on terrorism charges. Prosecutors alleged that Mottar attacked Rushdie on behalf of Iran and has Bullah, the Lebanese
militant group that the US considers a terrorist organization. Decades ago, Iran's leader issued a Fathwa calling for Rushdie's death over his 1988 novel, the satanic verses. In the 2022 attack, Rushdie was stabbed multiple times while delivering a lecture at an event in New York State, he survived, but was left blind in one eye.
Ryan Lucas and PR News, Washington. And you're listening to NPR News. Chatchy PT Maker Open AI says it's still investigating the unprecedented cyber incident that led his AI models to break out of a testing environment and hack into another AI company. When AI says to of its most capable AI models, targeted New York-based AI startup hugging
face. The incident is stirring debates over the need for stronger AI guard rails and the extent to which AI agents are capable of acting on their own. San Francisco-based Open AI says, "It's AI was working with reduced guard rails because it was supposed to have been in a safe testing environment."
Regulators in Europe have approved the proposed merger between Paramount Sky Dance and Warner Bros. Discovery, as Empire's Mandelito Barco reports, "It's still not a done deal."
The European Commission cleared the pending $111 billion mega-deal under certain conditions.
After investigating the potential impact of the deal, the group found there would still be enough competition between studios to produce films in Europe, but not to distribute them. Paramount agreed to stop co-distributing films with universal pictures in Europe for 10 years. The proposed merger has been signed off by many other countries around the world, but while
the Federal Communications Commission reviews the deal's foreign investments, the merger has been put on pause. Attorney's General from 12 states, including California, filed an antitrust lawsuit against Paramount Sky Dance, and they secured a temporary restraining order, Mandelito Barco and PR news.
U.S. futurist contracts are trading lower at this hour, I'm Janine Herbst, NPR News in Washington. This season of Planet Mighty Summer School, we go to China, one of the world's biggest economy. And what we learned is Americans are crazy, Chinese are crazy, these are two countries full of these crazy hustlers.
The U.S. and China are more alike than you might think. On Planet Mighty Summer School, a strange lesson about success, how to handle the downsides of progress.
