Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Wilman, acting Attorney General Todd Blanch's is...
a letter that terminates, President Trump's so-called Anti-Weaponization Fund, the $1.8 billion
“fund was set up to compensate his political allies, a disagreement over the fund his”
slow confirmation for Blanch as Attorney General. It's been a busy last weekend of campaigning, just ahead of Michigan's contentious U.S. Senate primary on Tuesday, as Michigan public's Steve Carmedy reports, the primary is implications far beyond the Great Lakes States. The primary between Congresswoman Haley Stevens and former Detroit Public Health Official
Abdual El Siyat as seen as a battle between the Democratic Party's establishment and progressive wings. Stevens has garnered a slew of endorsements from party leaders, including U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. Meanwhile, El Siyat has the backing of progressive stars, including Vermont Senator Bernie
Sanders and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Michigan's primary battle is not only about the direction of the National Democratic Party, but also whether Democrats or Republicans control the U.S. Senate next year.
For NPR News, I'm Steve Carmedy, in second on Michigan.
Officials in Washington State say firefighters are beginning to get a handle on wildfires burning in and around Spokane. The fires have destroyed at least 600 structures and some 60,000 people were forced to evacuate their homes because of the flames. Republican Congressman Michael Baumgartner says such destruction has not been seen before
in the region.
“This is an unprecedented catastrophe at his Spokane area, but I think we're going to see”
unprecedented collaboration in responding to this fire. The old trails fire has burned thousands of acres of land, and it's just one of three fires burning in the area. The death toll from last week's surge of migrants arriving from Morocco to the Spanish X-Clave of Siyutta has risen to at least 72 people.
Spain says most of those who made it to the territory have now returned to Morocco, but Terry Schultz reports that the diplomatic upboard, the incident caused in the European Union, continues. Formatically different responses to the Siyutta crisis from the European Union's top leaders illustrate how deeply divided the 27 governments are on migration and how worried they are
about threats to the passport-free travel rights granted inside the Blocks borders. European Council President Antonio Costa, who's from Portugal, expressed his personal solidarity with Spain, because to was not able to speak on behalf of the EU because there's no unified stance.
“The majority of governments sound more like EU Commission President Ursula von De Lion, who”
focuses on reinforcing control of EU borders. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has expressed outrage at what he calls polarizing positions. EU ambassadors meet Monday and Interior Minister's Tuesday to debate a collective response. For MPR News, I'm Terry Schultz and Brussels.
And you're listening to NPR News. Police and Idaho say the suspect in the fatal shooting at a fast food restaurant in Twin Falls died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Investigators say they're confident that the 24-year-old Chad Williams acted the loan during the shooting that left four people dead and seven others injured.
Police chief Matthew Hicks says an off-duty state trooper and an armed citizen fired at the gunmen and distracted him from killing more people. A museum devoted entirely to a "i-generated" art has opened in Los Angeles and Piers Chloe Velpin reports that the exhibits are also raising a more complicated question. Tell much of the art comes from a machine, how much still depends on the human behind
it. Refique Anadol is known for using AI algorithms to transform massive troves of data into bombastic, three-dimensional installations of light and sound. The Turkish American artist says he creates his projects, including the new data-land museum in LA, with a help of the people in his studio, a multidisciplinary group of artists,
architects and data scientists. He says his artist. 50% human, 50% machine. To create the art at data-land, Anadol fed images and sounds from museum archives labs and even his own travels to the Brazilian Amazon into a custom AI model.
He then directed it to create specific scenarios, such as a dream-like hummingbird narrative. Chloe Velpin MP on use. She Hoko Waki won the Women's British Golf Open Sunday shooting a par on the second playoff of the win, as their "hensely" dropped a 40-foot put on the last hole of regulation to force that playoff it was only the second playoff since 2001.
I'm Dale Wilman, NPR News. The fatal shooting of a teenager at a protest in Seattle has gone unsolved for six years. "This is open in your faith to how are there no answers."
Our investigation has uncovered new evidence and witnesses who say they've never talked
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