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its benchmark interest rate by a quarter point.
“Fed chair Kevin Worsh notes inflation is still running above the central bank's target,”
but NPR Zelina Seljuke says the Fed cannot control all monetary circumstances. "The big driver of current inflation is the war in Iran. It has pushed up the cost of gasoline and the price of diesel at historic highs, and that's definitely not something an interest rate hike can fix. The Fed also has no say on tariff policy, which is another driver, and we have the
fact that wages have not been keeping pace with inflation. For five months now, people's paychecks have been losing their buying power. Worse hopes the stable prices will help families keep their heads above water. Either way, any positive effects of this are unlikely to be very quick." NPR Zelina Seljuke reporting, the House of Representatives, has passed bills that would
block spikes in consumer's electricity bills when new data centers are built nearby. Members also passed a Russia sanctions bill, but now, the House has left on recess. Ohio Congresswoman Joyce Bady has requested an emergency hearing in federal court.
“It's over the closure of the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington for Repair.”
But NPR's Anastasia Zilka's reports, the center has also been at the center of a legal fight. President of Bady, Democrat from Ohio, is asking the federal court to force the board including its chairman, President Trump, to explain why they closed the Kennedy Center so suddenly in what appears to be a major escalation of the fight over the future of
the arts institution. Just this week, Judge Christopher Cooper had said he needed to approve any closure ahead of the renovation. Cooper also ruled that the board cannot add President Trump's name to the front of the building. The board has already filed an appeal and President Trump vowed on social media to take
the fight all the way to the Supreme Court. Trump also said he will not renovate the center without his name on it, Anastasia Zilka's and PR News.
“Another American oil company is going to develop infrastructure in Venezuela.”
And PR's Willow Rubin explains.
Continental resources says it's planning to develop a block holding about 30 billion
barrels of oil in a part of Venezuela rich with the kind of thick, heavy crude the country is known for. Continental says it evaluated opportunities in Venezuela after President Trump urged American energy companies to invest. The Oklahoma based company was founded by Trump, Ally, and donor Harold Ham.
Continental's move comes weeks after Chevron announced its expanding operations in Venezuela. That announcement came days after the Trump administration said it's working with a private company, had quoted in Barbados, to develop 17 Venezuelan oil fields. All of these projects will take months if not years to develop. Willow Rubin and PR News.
You're listening to NPR. A team of UN investigators says there are reasonable grounds to think the United States committed war crimes in two air strikes in Iran. This happened on February 28th when the U.S. and Israel launched the war against Iran. The air strikes targeted an elementary school, killing 178 people, mostly children.
The UN report also alleges Iran is committing crimes against humanity. The report cited killings of civilians on a "staggering scale." Big Tech Company, open AI, has released six more instances of artificial intelligence programs that have misbehaved. The disclosure follows the so-called "hugging phase hacking incident last July."
And PR's John Brewicz reports these increased concern over AI, spiraling out of human control. Open AI says it's put in place a new framework for disclosing what AI companies call misalignment episodes. That is, incidents when artificial intelligence goes off script and does things that humans
didn't ask for. It highlighted new cases from the past six months. In one, an AI research model made up its own instructions to disregard constraints that humans had put on it for testing. In another, the company found cases of AI deciding to conceal mistakes or bad behavior.
The company also found AI models fabricating information, and AI agents working together when they weren't asked to. Open AI says the reports are initial disclosures, not a comprehensive account of all-known misalignment or ongoing investigations, but it says it's committed to sharing more over time. On Rewicz and PR News, you're listening to NPR.
This is Ira Glass. On this American life, we tell stories about when things change, like for this guy David, who's an entire life took a sharp and expected and very unpleasant term, and it did
take me a while to realize it's basically because the monkey pressed the button.
That's right, because the monkey pressed the button.
