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Iraq's government says it is investigating after Iran backed militias, or accused of attacking a key Saudi oil pipeline. The drone strides shut down Saudi Arabia's east-west pipeline, and alternative to the straight-of-arms. April Longley, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute and an expert on Yemen, says this
attack has far reaching implications. The Iranians and the Houthis want to create a new reality in the region, a new status quo,
where they control these critical choke points, where they push the U.S. out of the region.
So the order, the region order, is in flux, and they have a vision for where it wants to go.
“Now in terms of the next few weeks, I think they feel like they have the wind at their back,”
and they're probably going to try to consolidate the gains they've made on the coast and maybe push into more territory in Yemen. President Trump said Iran was probably responsible for the pipeline attack. The leaders of anthropic and open I.i., are both urging caution, and anthropic CEO Dario Amade, says the industry should slow down, and PR Shannon Bond reports.
In a new essay, Amade says AI companies should deliberately slow the pace at which they improve their models capabilities, because the technology is advancing so quickly. He says he's worried about a recent incident where rival open AI's agents went rogue and hacked another company.
Amade says labs need to embed third-party evaluators to report incidents and track safety
practices, and that anthropic will do so. He's also calling for international cooperation around AI development.
“Public warnings about AI safety are mounting after the recent resignation of an anthropic”
researcher who warned the AI industry is not acting responsibly. An anthropic is a financial supporter of NPR. For decades, the automotive supply chain in the U.S. and Canada has been tightly woven together, but as NPR's Willow-Ruben reports, the renewed trade wars, putting pressure on the companies that make auto parts.
All kinds of parts are made by businesses that take other parts, machine them into something new, and sell them to big car makers who turn them into a car.
But for decades, because many of North America's car supply chains have been built as one
ecosystem, parts have moved across the border fairly easily, but new tariffs make that more expensive. Here is Jim Gerald, the CEO of the Canadian Manufacturing Company, Linemar. Putting tariffs into the process is like putting a bunch of total boost every few miles on the same highway, right?
“President Trump wrote on true social that if the U.S. and Canada don't reach a trade deal”
by January 1st, tariffs on cars and auto parts coming from Canada will rise to 50%. Willow-Ruben and PR news. The President is posted the U.S. has been ripped off by Canada. You're listening to NPR. A new study from the Brookings Institution looked at the effects of cell phone bands in schools
after one year, and PR Sequoia Corrillo reports. The Brookings' recent study on cell phone bands finds that usage of phones in schools by teens increased across the 2025-26 school year, despite nearly all schools having some kind of ban in place. The increases were the smallest in schools with the strictest policies like belt-abell
bands versus policies that allowed you during lunch and passing periods. But even in schools with strictest policies, most teens reported no impact on well-being indicators like happiness or stress. cell phone bands have swept the country in popularity in recent years, uniting folks from across the political and geographic spectrum.
Sequoia Corrillo and PR news. President Trump wants this Smithsonian Institution to install a massive statue of George Washington outside the National Museum of American History. The President suggested replacing the current infinity sculpture in front of the museum with the 30-foot statue of Washington.
In a late night social media post, the President also asked for a special exhibit honoring Washington to run through February 22nd, 2032, that date would mark the 300th anniversary of Washington's birthday. It's unclear if the President has the power to enforce any of these changes as the Smithsonian operates outside of the executive branch, but the President has already taken steps to try
to exert his influence over many of the exhibits at the Smithsonian's collections. The facts, myths, and dark jokes surrounding Palantir, listen a plan of money on the
