Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.
The unconventional Republican mid-term convention kicks off in about an hour in Dallas, Texas,
“as NPR's Tamar Keith reports, President Trump will be the star of the show.”
The convention is an effort to push back on strong political headwinds and rev up Trump's base to get out in vote in November. The president speaks both nights along with some of the Republican candidates facing tough races this year. Democratic governor from Illinois, JB Pritzgurt came to Dallas to do some counter-programming.
This bizarre Republican midterm convention here can't paper over the fact that Republicans have done nothing to earn your vote. Convention organizers say it will draw a contrast between the common sense Republican agenda and the Democrats' liberal and extreme alternative, Tamar Keith and PR News Dallas. The researcher at the Artificial Intelligence Company and Thropic has resigned, while warning
the company's work could have disastrous consequences. If your Jeff Brumfield has more on the latest in a string of safety warnings about AI.
“Jacob Coxen, who worked at Anthropic and Open AI, said he thought AI companies were "gambling”
with our lives." On the social media platform, X-y wrote that AI will soon be superhuman, able to hack anything and acquire real power and resources. The people building AI earnestly believe it could kill us all by the end of the decade he wrote.
He called on labs to slow and coordinate their research to avoid catastrophe. Coxen's resignation comes weeks after Open AI disclosed the swarm of Autonomous AI agents had worked together to hack another company, Jeff Brumfield and PR News. Newly released air quality records in New York after the terrorist attack on 9/11 have FDNY Union leaders demanding answers for what they call a "continuing health emergency"
as people are still suffering from the effects of being at Ground Zero, nearly 25 years ago.
“FDNY Association Uniformed President James Broussie”
"What we learned was the air was as toxic as we said it was. What we learned is that we were dying with every breath we took down there. What we learned is that the city knew it and failed to prioritize one public safety announcement. Two proper D-Con, three preventing us from eating down there and digesting the toxins. Four not letting people volunteer to clean up.
Five not letting people get a heck of a filter vacuum and get a credit for it from the government as they self-clean their own apartments." This comes a day after Mayor Momsdani ordered the release of more than 170,000 pages of documents on air quality and lower Manhattan after the collapse of the World Trade Center towers. Wall Street Lower, just ahead of the bell, the Dow Down 405 points the NASDAQ down 168.
You're listening to NPR News. Thousands of public schools in Massachusetts are closed early this week because of an ongoing
cyber attack that's impacting critical systems.
It's just one of the latest examples of hackers increasingly impacting everyday life, as NPR's genomic lawflon has reports. It is an inclement weather or a pandemic that has kept thousands of students home in Springfield Massachusetts early in the new school year. Hackers have prevented school administrators from accessing third-party systems where health
data and students' medications and allergies are kept on file. Springfield Mayor Dominic Sarno says progress has been made and the investigation is ongoing, but he would not say whether cyber criminals were holding data for ransom. If we have to, which could be necessary, it's back to the future. We'll go back to Penn and Paper.
A cyber criminals' hack-device and nation-states target vulnerable American critical infrastructure
from water systems to schools, these disruptions have become the new normal. General Glawlin and PR News. President Trump gave three of his long-time aides who work in the West Wing, including Natalie Harb, a holiday gift of $45,000 each last year, that's according to financial disclosure forms. The three aides, some of Trump's closest, have federal salaries of $150,000 each.
It's not clear if that violates the federal government's policy against political appointees getting bonuses. This news was first reported by the Washington Post. In general, government employees are prohibited from accepting outside salaries. The White House says Trump has a long-standing practice of giving Christmas gifts.
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