"Lie from MPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh.
Vice President J.D. Vance will deliver tonight's keynote address at the Republican midterm
convention.
“And Pierre Steven Fowler reports the message will likely preview a 2028 presidential run.”
While Trump is telling Republicans to vote this year like he's on the ballot, Vance's task will be to try and keep those voters engaged for a future where Trump isn't president. The Vice President's address will likely continue the messaging Trump laid out, including the election being a contrast between, quote, "common sense versus crazy." It's also expected a fuel speculation that Vance would seek the GOP presidential nomination
in 2028. Other potential 2028 candidates are speaking tonight too, like Texas Senator Ted Cruz and Donald Trump Jr., at least one name being floated, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, is not in attendance.
Steven Fowler and Pierre News, Dallas.
Turning point USA returns to Utah Valley University today to memorialize its co-founder Charlie Kirk. The conservative activists were shot and killed in front of a crowd of students and other attendees one year ago today, and Pierre's Elena Moore reports on the fallout of Kirk's assassination. At the time of Kirk's death, Kirk had really become one of the most influential voices within
the conservative youth space, and supporters credited him with helping President Trump
“make crucial gains with young voters in the 2024 election.”
Some took Kirk's death as a sign to get more involved. In the days following the shooting, turning point reported a surge of interest with requests from high school and college students looking to start new chapters at their schools. And Pierre is Elena Moore reporting, Tyler Robinson, the 23-year-old man accused of killing Kirk, will stand trial on seven charges, including aggravated murder, which carries
the death penalty in Utah, Robinson has pleaded not guilty. The AI company, Anthropic, has issued a report on its efforts to disrupt so-called threat actors, trying to use its AI model clawed from malicious activities. There's include users doing research that could support the development of biological weapons. Here's NPR's John Ruich.
The kind of science knowledge that experts say makes advanced AI useful in developing cures for diseases could also potentially be used to develop bioweapons, and that risky is one of the big concerns that AI researchers and policymakers have about the technology.
“Anthropic noted 5 case studies, one involved researching how to make a mosquito-borne disease”
more transmissible. Another involved redesigning toxins for what Anthropic says was a national program. Anthropic says it's hard to know definitively if the cases were related to plans to build bioweapons, but it notes that it disrupted the activity and shared the information with the authorities and partners in the industry, and a note Anthropic is a financial supporter
of NPR, John Ruich and PR News. Across the U.S. flags will be flown at half-staff tomorrow in observance of the 25th anniversary of 9/11. It's NPR. Around the globe, temperatures broke several records as they drove an abnormally warm
summer. In the United States, it was a hottest summer, in 132 years of record keeping in the lower 48 states. S-month was the hottest August on record for both average temperatures and max temps according to the national oceanic and atmospheric administration. As more young people question the value and cost of a college degree, some educators and
entrepreneurs in Vermont are attempting to reimagine the college experience. From all public's Liam Elder Conner's reports, the approach is simple. Don't do too much and focus on what works. The Greenway Institute in Mount Pilar will offer just one degree, engineering. It's founders and advisors include tech executives, a former state education secretary,
and a NASA engineer. Students will get hands-on experience, literally building things in class.
And for the second half of their education, they'll get real engineering jobs.
The college will also scale back on amenities to save money. There won't be a gym and students will cook their own meals. Clark Somerville is Greenway's founding president. So we'd like to talk about Greenway as being a place where students will take out their own trash.
Somerville says the college plans to welcome its first class next fall. For NPR News, I'm Liam Elder Conner's in Mount Pilar, Vermont. The prize of oil surge today surpassing $106 a barrel up more than 6%. We see the Dow has closed down 316 points. I'm Lakshmi Singh, NPR News.
As we can hear in now any time, 25 years after 9/11 we asked you how your life changed. "I did not appreciate that day how much September 11th would come to shape my adult life." We also talk about the long shadow of Islamophobia still hanging over the country. Listen to hear in now any time on the NPR app or anywhere you listen to podcasts.
