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President Trump says he's placing a condition on Washington's new nuclear agreement with
Saudi Arabia. In a post-unsocial media, he says the deal is subject to Saudi Arabia normalizing diplomatic relations with Israel by joining the Abraham Accords signed in 2020. The Saudi nuclear agreement allows the U.S. to build and run nuclear energy plants in the kingdom.
But President's post also says the deal doesn't allow for the enrichment of uranium. Daniel Bename is with the Middle East Institute, and he was a deputy assistant secretary of state in the Biden administration.
“"I think that the actual terms of this deal, at least as they've been reported, are kind”
of very unique in which a U.S. company might be operating inside Saudi Arabia without actually sharing sensitive nuclear technology.
Those seem like terms that other countries wouldn't particularly want.
But I think it is a real concern that other countries will say this is the new baseline. And we can follow it, and it will require a lot of very careful and assertive diplomacy by the United States to make sure that this doesn't become the new normal for every country in the region, which I don't think would be in our interest." "That's Daniel Bename speaking to morning edition.
House Republicans are referring former special counsel Jack Smith to the Justice Department for possible prosecution. And PR's Kerry Johnson reports the lawmakers are citing statements Smith made under oath to Congress last year. South Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan of Republican from Ohio is urging the DOJ to investigate
Jack Smith.
“Over the former prosecutor's testimony about his effort to gather phone records of GOP lawmakers.”
Jordan says Smith seems to have made false statements in a deposition last December. Smith led two criminal investigations of President Donald Trump, including an effort to charge Trump for interfering in the 2020 election. His team gathered records of certain lawmakers as part of that probe. Smith's lawyer says he gave candid testimony to the House about his work as special counsel.
And he says the new referral is an effort to weaponize the justice system against a long time civil servant, Kerry Johnson and PR News Washington. Secretary of State Marco Rubio held direct talks with his Russian counterpart on the sidelines of a Minister's summit in the Philippines today. And PR's Charles Mane's reports, their conversation focused heavily on Russia's war in
Ukraine. The meeting between Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov lasted just over half an hour. A head of it Rubio said the U.S. remained open to playing a role in ending the conflict between Russian Ukraine, if Rubio added, the opportunity presented itself.
“Russian Foreign Ministry read out said Lavrov had informed Rubio of the real situation on”
the battlefield. Russian cysts, its forces, are steadily advancing that despite Western intelligence that chose minimal Russian gains coming with heavy losses, Charles Mane's impure news, Moscow. You're listening to NPR News in Washington. The man who pleaded guilty to killing Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband
Mark will be sentenced today. Vance Belter also confessed to shooting a state senator and his wife. A man in Florida is suing open AI, alleging, chat GPT gave him dangerous medical advice during a health crisis. NPR's Shannon Bon reports the lawsuit comes as AI companies are promoting their chat
bots as resources for health. Scott Winters says he suffered a near fatal pulmonary embolism last year after turning to chat GPT about his health problems. He says the chat bot discouraged him from seeking medical care for his symptoms and gave him dangerous recommendations, including about taking prescription drugs.
The lawsuit filed in California State Court alleges open AI safeguards meant to urge people to seek professional advice, failed winters. Open AI says an statement that chat GPT should not be used as a substitute for medical care diagnosis or treatment. Winters is seeking damages and asking the court to order open AI to strengthen its guardrails
around medical conversations. Shannon Bonne and PR News.
The European Union is finding Google a billion dollars for breaking digital anti-trust regulations.
The EU says Google set up its search engine and Google play to favor its own services over competitors. Cases of the measles have hit their highest level in the U.S. since the early 90s, according to Johns Hopkins University. Its tracker has recorded 2,295 reported cases this year.
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