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Flags are flying at half-staff at the U.S. Capitol where a congressional tribute was held
“this morning for the late Senator Lindsey Graham who died earlier this month at the age”
of '71." "Very safe!" "Military poll bears carried Graham's flag drape casket up the Capitol's steps, past two columns of mourners who quietly watched with hand over-hard. During the memorial service Senate Majority Leader John Thun was one of the speakers to say goodbye
to his longtime Republican colleague. "Rest in peace, my friend." "I look forward to the days when you make us all laugh again." A funeral service will take place this afternoon at the National Cathedral and services will also be held in Graham's home state of South Carolina.
President Trump held back to back high-stakes meetings today with the presidents of Ukraine and Israel as the U.S. navigates its role in two major conflicts. The White House says the meetings were positive and productive. "Nine-in-10 voters say corruption is a big problem in American politics, polling from the Brennan Center for Justice finds.
Most voters seek corruption as a systemic problem, it keeps politicians from focusing on "kitchen-table issues," NPR's Eric Vidayna reports some Democrats are working to make that connection on the campaign trail. It's a mainstay of Democratic Senator John Ossuff's speeches. "Corruption in America runs a lot deeper than Donald Trump.
American politics is coin-operated. Money goes in, favors come out." Democratic messaging includes holding Trump accountable, yes, but also a ban on lawmakers stock trading, locking the lobbying revolving door and capping money in elections. Republicans note that multiple House Democrats have faced recent federal charges related
to corruption. Will voters believe their message? Most say corruption is the systemic failure beyond the ethics of any individual politician, Eric McDaniel, NPR News and Washington. Scientists say the fire is raging in southern Europe, or reacting with summer storms.
NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports this is creating a phenomenon known as "firestorms that cannot be extinguished." John Batit's Philippe is an expert on fire weather forecasting with the French National Research Center, CNRS. He says a storm and a very hot fire can create a feedback loop. "When you have both at the same time, they start to interact a lot.
You cannot stop a storm, so you will not stop a fire storm." The exchange of heat from the fires and energy from the storm form a column that can reach six miles high.
Philippe says the phenomenon has been seen in California, but never before in southern France.
With global warming, it will likely happen more frequently.
“The only way to avoid it, he says, is to keep fires from getting so hot that they trigger”
convection. That is the exchange of heat and energy with a summer storm. Eleanor Beardsley and PR News, similar on Oxford, France. This is NPR. Hundreds of thousands of authors will receive their share of the $1.5 billion settlement.
It's part of a copyright infringement lawsuit against the AI Company Anthropic. PR's Chloe Beltman reports its fire from an unqualified victory for the publishing industry. The compensation is about $3,000 for each title anthropic use to train its AI models without authors consent. New York Times best-selling author Charles Graber was a named plaintiff in the suit, Anthropic
used two of his books. He says the payout reaffirms that piracy is a crime, but he has mixed feelings about the last two and a half years he spent fighting anthropic. A lot of travel, a lot of discussion about what to do and how to proceed and a lot of jobs has to up.
I'm much poorer for this settlement, ironically.
Well, this will split the money with publishers and more than $100 million goes to the
plaintiff's lawyers, Chloe Beltman and PR News. Hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world, mostly Haitians, are losing their temporary protected status to continue living and working in the US. Last month, US Supreme Court ruling cleared the way for the administration to end the legal protections that it viewed as a "de facto amnesty program."
Parts of Japan's southern main island of Kiyushu are recovering from a magnitude 6.8 earthquake as measured by the USGS. The tembler caused the second floor of a shopping center to collapse and unknown number of people have been trapped, local media report as many as 30 people were unaccounted for.
This is a quick trigger to tsunami advisory, which was quickly lifted. This is NPR News. Are we doomed? Looks it? Big problems.
Nobody would, for rationally, want nuclear war, that's not way per wreck. How can we add friction?
“Put the launch codes inside somebody's chest cavity and you have to kill them to get them out.”
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