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Interior Secretary Doug Burgum says construction work on a huge new arch near Arlington
“National Cemetery outside DC will begin soon.”
And here's Emily Fang reports that's despite an ongoing lawsuit against it." Three veterans in an architectural historian argue the 250-foot gilded arch would disrupt sightlines between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery, and that the White House needs congressional approval for construction. Burgum wrote excavation work would begin in the next two weeks, anyway.
The arch is among several building projects the administration has championed to the capital, including a planned golf course that would limit the public's access to a public park along the Potomac River and possibly demolishing the Kennedy Center. A massive new White House ballroom is also facing a lawsuit, but as with the arch, the Trump administration appears intent to build it faster than the courts can reach a decision
on its legality, Emily Fang and peer news Washington.
"Open AI, the maker of chatGPT, has launched a new AI model, Astra, is the first new model
since the company announced that autonomous AI agents in training went off script and colluded to hack into another company.
“And his MPR's John Ruich reports, "Open AI says this new agent is its safest yet."”
The new model will be available at first, only to partners in an early access program to make sure it's safe. But it says over the coming days, GPT-6 Astra, as it's known, will be made more widely available to the public. "Open AI has caught heavy flags since July when AI agents in testing ignored instructions,
worked secretly together to figure out how to get on the internet and then hacked into another company. That incident raised serious questions about human control of artificial intelligence. The company says the new model is its best yet in terms of alignment with human values and causes fewer unintended outcomes than previous models."
John Ruich and PR News Drill Blazing journalist and activist Gloria Steinem as died, she was 92. She devoted her life to fighting for gender equality and instilled feminist ideals to generations of women, if your Juliana Kim has more.
“Among her achievements, Gloria Steinem helped form the National Women's Political Caucus”
in 1971. The group focuses on recruiting, training, and endorsing women for public office. In an interview with NPR at the time, Steinem said, "Women helped men with their political campaigns for generations, yet their concerns remained underrepresented." "We're not going to do that anymore. Let the male candidates do their own typing and mammographic and, you know, driving
voters to the poll. We're going to work for each other now." Steinem's death was announced on her official Instagram account. It did not provide a cause of death. Juliana Kim and PR News
Wall Street hire by the closing bell the dial up 624 points the NASDAQ up 366. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. President Trump has named Adam Tell as acting secretary of the Army after the departure of Dan Driscoll who left amid reports of tensions with Defense Secretary Pete Heggseth, tell as currently the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works.
You unreport on the Warren Sudan found that a network of countries, including the United Arab Emirates, has been helping supply the paramilitary side with drones and other weapons. Kiparla reports that you and also found foreign fighters are helping to sustain the three-year-old conflict. "The UN Fact-Finding Mission" said Thursday that a transnational support system is helping
the paramilitary rapid support forces or RSF fight the Sudanese Army.
The report found more than 1,000 people in Sudan were killed in the first five months
of this year with drones used by both sides of the conflict. And some of those drones had said, "We're supplied to the RSF by individuals and entities in the UAE, with Chad, Libya and Somalia used as transit hubs. The UAE has strongly denied the allegations." The report also found up to 2,000 Colombian contractors had helped to operate the drone systems
used by the RSF. Kate Bartlett in Pian News, Johannesburg. Volkswagen says it's cutting around 50,000 jobs, part of a major cost-cutting plan to counter surging Chinese competition as its Chinese sales plummet, high-energy costs, and the U.S. tariffs.
The decision follows a 10-stand-off with the world's largest automakers' unions, but they now reportedly back the plan. You're listening to NPR News. This week on NewsMakers, after more than a decade in comedy, I wasn't sure that we would get here.
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