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At this time’s high tales
President Trump introduced that U.S. talks with Iran may resume throughout the subsequent two days. This comes as Israel conducts negotiations for different Center East wars. In Washington, D.C., yesterday, Israel and Lebanon held historic direct diplomatic talks — the primary of this type since 1993. Lebanon desires a ceasefire, however Israel will not agree till the Iranian-backed Lebanese militia Hezbollah disarms. Israel and Hezbollah continued to commerce fireplace through the talks. Each side agreed to extra talks in just a few weeks in Washington.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Michel Issa, Lebanon Ambassador to the U.S. Nada Hamadeh Moawad and Israel Ambassador to the U.S. Yechiel Leiter pose for a photograph earlier than their assembly on the State Division in Washington, DC, U.S., April 14, 2026. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
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- 🎧 The U.S. is presently one week right into a two-week ceasefire. The possibilities of a decision are difficult by the truth that Iran desires the peace deal to incorporate an finish to the combating between Israel and Hezbollah, NPR’s Daniel Estrin tells Up First. At this time, the U.S. navy’s Central Command introduced its completion of the blockade of Iranian ports within the Strait of Hormuz. The U.S. says about 90% of Iran’s economic system depends on worldwide commerce by sea, and now that pathway is totally lower off. Estrin says a query stays as as to if this type of financial stress on Iran is sufficient to bridge the very huge gaps between the U.S. and Iran.
- 🎧 The Worldwide Financial Fund warns that the worldwide economic system is liable to a recession amid the continuing battle in Iran. The IMF singled out the UK as one of many hardest-hit economies as a result of it imports a lot fuel and oil, says NPR’s Fatima Al-Kassab. U.Okay. households will already be $500 worse off this 12 months because of the conflict, in keeping with the assume tank The Decision Basis. Some analysts say that even when peace is achieved tomorrow, the shock to the system might take weeks and even months to recuperate from.
Notice: This story contains descriptions of sexual violence.
A Los Angeles lady yesterday leveled what would be the most critical allegations but in opposition to former Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell. Swalwell formally resigned from Congress yesterday as a second lady accused him of rape. Swalwell, who additionally suspended his marketing campaign for California governor over the weekend, has denied all allegations of sexual assault and misconduct.
- 🎧 Lonna Drewes mentioned at a information convention together with her legal professionals that she believes Swalwell drugged and raped her in a West Hollywood lodge room in 2018, Marisa Lagos of NPR community station KQED says. Drewes mentioned she plans to report the alleged assault to legislation enforcement. She recounted that she met Swalwell socially on three separate events. She alleges that on their final encounter, she consumed one glass of wine earlier than going to his lodge room so he might retrieve one thing he wanted. Drewes says she grew to become so incapacitated that she could not transfer. Swalwell, by his legal professional, denied the allegations, labeling them a “calculated and transparent political hit job.” California Gov. Gavin Newsom has scheduled a particular election for Aug. 18 to fill Swalwell’s congressional seat.
The Justice Division printed a report yesterday accusing the Biden administration of unfairly utilizing a federal legislation designed to guard reproductive well being clinics from violence to focus on Christians who oppose abortion. This report is the primary from the company’s “Weaponization Working Group,” a job drive fashioned underneath the Trump administration to analyze perceived wrongdoing within the Biden administration. The group alleges that Biden’s Justice Division used the Freedom of Entry to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act to launch biased prosecutions and lawsuits in opposition to conservatives and Christian anti-abortion advocates. The act was established greater than 30 years in the past to forestall acts of violence, obstruction and property injury in opposition to reproductive well being companies.
Virginia has turn out to be the newest state to affix a motion to make the winner of the favored vote the president. Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed a invoice this week to affix the Nationwide Fashionable Vote Compact, a coalition of states dedicated to awarding their electoral votes to the favored vote winner. Eighteen states plus the District of Columbia now help the compact, totaling 222 electoral votes. However it will not take impact till sufficient states have signed as much as attain the required 270 electoral votes wanted to elect a president. If that occurs, authorized challenges would seemingly await.
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Go nose to nose with the individual of the second. NPR’s Newsmakers video podcast brings the most important names in politics, enterprise, sports activities, arts, and tradition out of the headlines and into the interview chair to debate the mark they’re making on the world. Observe the Newsmakers podcast or subscribe to NPR’s YouTube channel to get new episodes as quickly as they’re out there.
Dave Chappelle is among the most influential stand-up comedians on the planet. His exhibits have offered out, and he has a prestigious Mark Twain award to his identify. Now, he has a brand new title: landlord of a public radio station in Yellow Springs, Ohio. He spent $15 million of his personal cash to offer WYSO a brand new house. The comic speaks with Morning Version‘s Michel Martin about his buy and why he determined to maneuver his household to the small Ohio city. He additionally discusses free speech and the aim of comedy. Martin and Chappelle spoke with one another at WYSO’s brand-new station underneath the uncovered beams of the 150-year-old constructing, only a day after the ribbon-cutting.
Watch the interview now on YouTube or hearken to the Newsmakers episode later in the present day.
Deep dive
AI lab Anthropic introduced this week that it had developed a strong new mannequin the corporate believes might “reshape cybersecurity.” It mentioned that its newest mannequin, Mythos Preview, was capable of finding “high-severity vulnerabilities, including some in every major operating system and web browser.”
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The AI lab Anthropic introduced this week that it has developed a new synthetic intelligence mannequin, known as Mythos Preview, that might “reshape cybersecurity.” The mannequin detects “high-severity vulnerabilities, including some in every major operating system and web browser,” the corporate mentioned. Mythos Preview can also be higher at figuring out methods to use the vulnerabilities it finds, which might be malicious if positioned within the fallacious arms. For now, to safe the vital software program, the corporate is limiting entry to about 50 choose firms and organizations.
- ➡️ The misuse threat is just too excessive to launch this explicit mannequin to most of the people, however Anthropic says it’ll launch different associated fashions.
- ➡️ Earlier than Mythos Preview’s restricted launch, the cybersecurity neighborhood grappled with the rising capabilities of commercially out there superior AI fashions. Builders are speeding to patch safety vulnerabilities recognized by AI, whereas safety consultants are involved over the potential penalties of those applied sciences spreading with out safeguards.
- ➡️ In the summertime of 2025, HackerOne, a platform that helps handle safety reporting, surveyed hackers. It discovered that almost 60% of respondents had been utilizing AI, studying about it or finding out find out how to audit AI and machine studying programs.
- ➡️ AI excels at discovering bugs and safety flaws however struggles with fixing them, says Daniel Stenberg, the lead developer of cURL, a 30-year-old open-source information switch software. The problem arises as a result of bugs and their options are hardly ever easy. In software program improvement, making judgment calls typically takes longer than writing the code.
3 issues to know earlier than you go
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- Direct-to-consumer blood testing is on the rise as health-conscious people order their very own lab work. Whereas this empowers sufferers to take cost of their well being, the outcomes come with out explanations, typically leaving sufferers with extra questions than solutions.
- The U.S. has seen a historic, sustained drop in overdose deaths. However this pattern might be threatened by a altering drug panorama, as gangs and cartels shift to producing artificial substances with industrial chemical substances.
- NPR’s Phrase of the Week, “discombobulated,” describes an unsettling feeling. It could sound fancy, however it’s really the product of American jokesters who appear to have joined a Nineteenth-century pattern of inventing grand, humorous-sounding phrases.
This article was edited by Suzanne Nuyen.
