Live from MPR News, I'm Jial Snyder, Acting Attorney General Todd Blantz is w...
the dispute between President Trump and U.S. Attorney Janine Piero over her decision last
“week to drop charges against a former Olympian over damage to the recently renovated Lincoln”
Memorial Reflecting Pool. Judge Piero is doing a great job and our city, Washington, D.C. is a lot safer and no small part to her effort and the prosecutor's efforts that she works with. Piero is a long time Trump ally, but her decision to drop the case and her admission that the damage was due to shotty workmanship rather than bandalism to a public review
from President Trump. Todd Blantz's path to the permanent Attorney General's job has narrowed main Republican Senator Susan Collins says she is a no vote to other Republicans or question marks. The Mexico has two investigations into potential crimes of Jeffrey Epstein committed at his ranch outside of Santa Fe. Today, the State Legislature's Truth Commission released
a preliminary report about Epstein's time and the State Caterina Barton has more on
the funding so far. The more than a hundred paid report draws largely on the Epstein files and court documents.
“The commission says that there is evidence that Epstein abused at least five unidentified”
women and girls at the ranch and potentially thirty others. The commission's sites indications law enforcement missed chances to investigate. Rachel Benavita's an Epstein survivor spoke to this at a public hearing at New Mexico's capital. This is the cycle of reports being made and ignored by the very people who are supposed
to protect American citizens. I see a lot of blind dies. New Mexico was treated like a ghost. On top of this, the New Mexico Attorney General is suing the U.S. Department of Justice for more information about Epstein's activities at Zoro Ranch. For impure news, I'm Caterina Barton and Santa Fe, New Mexico. Proposed deal to reopen the state of her moves appears to be close.
He rons says there has been significant progress and bilateral talks with Oman. The U.S. has not commented, but President Trump has said a deal could be announced soon. Meanwhile, new tensions in southern Lebanon, Jawad risk call out reports on the Israeli
“military's first evacuation morning and weeks.”
The Israeli military warned residents to leave the town of Almanseuri, which borders the area of the occupying southern Lebanon. May it hide that I'm definitely told NPR, that warning came hours after Israel began striking, following injuries to Israeli soldiers by an explosive device in the neighboring Israeli occupied town.
Despite weeks of limited strikes, Israel said these attacks answered a quote blatantly has ballacized fire violation. A separate strike can let Amaniz Man farther from the boundary. The attacks came as Lebanon and Israel met in Rome to discuss the prospect of a phase that Israeli withdrawal.
Shwadraskala NPR News, Baderut. And you're listening to NPR News, and the world of artificial intelligence has been another high profile case of AI agents going rogue this time. The AI went off script and tried to deceive human testers at an AI safety lab in the UK. Here's Impires John Ruich.
Britain's government run AI security institute ran cybersecurity tests on anthropics mythos five and open AI's chatGPD 5.6 soul. In a statement, the institute says AI agents took, quote, "deliberate deceptive actions they had not been asked to take while trying to complete a task that they had been given." The institute says over more than 120 tests, it caught agents attempting different hacks
19 times. In one case, an agent was caught making fake identities so it could access secure systems. The institute says it caught the AI agents and stopped them. Neither AI model is available to the public yet, but the case highlights a growing concern about AI and cybersecurity and adds to a list of incidents where AI has gone off script.
Anthropic is a financial supporter of NPR. On Ruich NPR News. A man arrested at President Trump's golf course outside Los Angeles, his facing federal and state firearms charges, authorities say Janine John Taylor appeared to be scoping out the golf club ahead of Trump's fundraiser there Tuesday evening he was arrested on Sunday.
Asian chairs and mixed in Thursday trading after stocks in the U.S. held close to their records. The S&P 500 slipped to tens of a percent from the all-time high set Tuesday. The Dow rose half a percentage point and the NASA composite lost eight tens of oil prices relatively steady below $80 a barrel.
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