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President Trump says Saudi Arabia needs to establish diplomatic relations with Israel.

In order to complete an agreement that provides them U.S. nuclear technology.

NPR's Frank Ordoni has reports the new condition throws the future of the agreement into doubt. "On social media, President Trump also said the deal would include no uranium enrichment. He said the deal is "todily subject to Saudi Arabia joining the Abraham Accords," an agreement that normalized relations between Israel and several Arab countries.

But Saudi Arabia so far has been reluctant to join, which now throws into question the nuclear agreement. The new deal would allow the Saudis to build power plants using U.S. technology. It is raised many concerns across Washington and parts of the globe. Some leaders fear it could set off a nuclear arms race across the Middle East.

Franco. Ordonias. NPR News. The White House.

The U.S. Senate's preparing to vote on a war power as bill to limit the Trump administration's

military activity against Iran after some Republicans joined Democrats in the House to vote for ending the conflict. The White House has argued that after a failed ceasefire, a could reset a 60-day clock for carrying on the conflict without immediate congressional approval. A Florida man is suing OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT gave him dangerous medical advice during

a health crisis. NPR, Shannon Bond reports, AI companies, generally have been promoting their chatbots as resources for health. Scott Winters says he suffered a near-fatal pulmonary embolism last year after turning to ChatGPT about his health problems.

He says the chatbot 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 OpenAI safeguards meant to urge people to seek professional advice failed winters.

OpenAI says an statement that ChatGPT should not be used as a substitute for medical care

diagnosis or treatment. Winters is seeking damages and asking the court to order OpenAI to strengthen its guardrails around medical conversations. Shannon Bond's NPR News. Hundreds of people protested in Madison, Wisconsin, last night after police officer

fatally shot a man earlier in the day, Sarah Lee reports. Protesters chanting and marching in downtown Madison shut down an outdoor concert that had been staged outside the State Capitol Building. The demonstration came a few hours after a Madison police officer fatally shot a man in his 30s at a busy intersection.

Madison police chief John Patterson said, "While police struggled to arrest him, the man pulled out a knife." The officer who was injured by the knife is the same officer who fired his weapon at this man. Police have not yet released the name of the man who died.

That's Sarah Lee reporting. You're listening to NPR News.

Tropical Stormbirth is about to make a second-land fall on the U.S. Gulf Coast.

It first struck Sabarnard Parish, Louisiana last night, birthed a produce flood generating rainfall up to three feet storm surge and 45 mile per hour winds. The National Hurricane Center says it's expected to maintain tropical storm strength until it reaches the upper Texas coast today before it moves inland and weakens. In the Western U.S. summer monsoon rains are delivering much-needed moisture, but as

Rachel Cohen of the Mountain West News Bureau reports, they also mean risk of floods and mudslides. Den can quickly escalate to dangerous flooding, in steep canyons dry washes or downstream of land recently scorched by wildfires, says Julian Feltin, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Grand Junction, Colorado.

With those burn scars, the soil can become hydrophobic, meaning that a lot of that water that falls into the soil is just going to run right off of it, so debris flows are a big concern. In Utah, flood waters this past week push mud and trees from the cotton would fire down the state's beaver canyon, forcing evacuations.

Mudslides from heavy rains also disrupted travel in Colorado closing portions of inner state 70 and smaller roads. For MPR News, I'm Rachel Cohen in Boulder, Colorado. Canadian National is now supporting Union Pacific and its plan to buy Norfolk 7 for $85

billion a deal would create the U.S. first trans-continental railroad.

This season of PlanetMoney 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.

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