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President Trump is in Ireland for a today visit where he met today with the country's
Prime Minister.
“And PR's Franco-Rodonia's reports from said he would like to see Northern Ireland reunified”
with the Republic of Ireland. During a cordial meeting with the T-Shug where both sides tired of the long-working relationship, President Trump waited into some sensitive political waters, saying he'd like to see Ireland unified. "I don't want to cross any time, but I won't value, I'd love to see it unified."
Reunification would involve putting a vote to the people, Northern Ireland's status bird decades of violence known as the "Trubles," ending with the 1998 Good Friday Agreement.
Reunification would also present practical challenges of combining two different economic and
political systems. The president has promised gas prices will come down after the midterm elections. He blames the war with their lawn for the increase, but has not explained what would bring prices down.
“Americans are feeling the effects, even if they're not filling up their cars.”
Diesel powers the machinery used to grow food and move goods across the country. Jason Kurtz is a farmer in Forest City, Missouri. "We have to harvest, and we have to run the machines. We have to use the diesel. So, bottom line is, it cuts into our bottom line."
And that cost keeps climbing. The national average for Diesel reached another record high today of more than $6.16 a gallon. According to AAA, that's up more than $10 since yesterday, and nearly $2.46 from a year ago. Manufacturers are looking for ways to operate more efficiently without sacrificing quality. And PR's Andrea Xu reports some are turning to artificial intelligence to help them do it.
At a GE Appliances plant in northwest Georgia, director of manufacturing operations, Tony
“Gabbard, points to an AI-powered camera system on an assembly line.”
It's been trained to look for errors and shut the line down if it finds one, like the wrong part on another.
"The quicker we know what the problem is, the quicker we can fix it."
GE Appliances is also using AI to sift through millions of lines of data to detect anomalies before they become problems. If a motor is running hot, they can schedule a repair to avoid an unexpected breakdown. And far the introduction of AI and other advanced technology has not led to job cuts. In fact, the Georgia plant added 600 jobs as part of a recent expansion, Andrea Xu and PR news.
This is NPR. North Korea has launched multiple missiles into the sea following U.S. South Korean and Japanese joint military exercises, and PR's Anthony Cune reports from Seoul that it's the fourth such launch since early last month. South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff say the short-range ballistic missiles were launched
from the East Coast town of One Sun and flew eastward some 250 miles into the sea. South Korea's national security office held an emergency meeting to discuss the launch and criticized it as a violation of UN Security Council resolutions. The launch comes a day after the U.S. South Korea and Japan wrapped up joint drills, which North Korea called provocative and warned wood trigger unspecified countermeasures.
Last month, President Trump ordered U.S. South Korean joint drills shortened in an apparent attempt to restart diplomacy with North Korea, but Pyongyang dismissed the move as insufficient. Anthony Cune in PR News Seoul. The CIA has declassified several dozen presidential briefing documents to mark the 25th anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks.
The record's detailed intelligence gathered about Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda in the years before the hijackings. They trace how CIA analysts understanding of Al Qaeda evolved and how they warned about Bin Laden's plans for an attack. CIA director John Radcliffe called the release an act of exceptional transparency.
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