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Barely six months after its launch, OpenAI is ending an app that could generate AI video at the click of a button.
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The antibody shots are about 80% effective at preventing babies from ending up in intensive care because of RSV. The drugmakers behind them maintain they're safe. (Image credit: AP)
Wait times are exceeding four hours at some major airports, leading TSA officers to call out at rates of 40 to 50%, according to TSA Deputy Administrator Ha Nguyen McNeill. (Image credit: Ryan Murphy)
by Emily Feng / 8h
Iranians escaping hardship and war are shaking it off to Persian, Arabic and Turkish tunes in this disco in eastern Turkey.
The jury ordered the companies to pay $6 million in damages over defective design. The landmark may influence the outcome of 2,000 other pending lawsuits. (Image credit: Frederic J. Brown)
A new archbishop of Canterbury has been installed in a historic ceremony. Sarah Mullally is the 106th person to hold the job, and the first woman. (Image credit: Alastair Grant)
by Bill Chappell / 9h
Today Nearly two months after Nancy Guthrie disappeared, her daughter Savannah discusses the toll on her family in an emotional interview with her Today show colleague Hoda Kotb. (Image credit: Rebecca Noble)
by Terry Gross / 10h
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption "There is an America that is more free — where there's more equality, where there is more justice, where there is less bigotry — and I think it's waiting for us," says lawyer Bryan Stevenson.
Low morale, staff turnover and budget issues have sapped the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The administration is expected to soon name a new director, who will have their hands full. (Image credit: Nathan Howard)
After weeks of start and stop negotiations between Congressional Democrats and the White House, there's an emerging proposal to fund the majority of DHS and tackle ICE enforcement funding separately. (Image credit: Roberto Schmidt)
Former Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro heads to court again this week. The judge overseeing this case is longtime federal Judge Alvin Hellerstein. At 92 years old, Hellerstein is older than the average age of a federal judge by more than 20 years. (Image credit: Jane Rosenberg)
by Tara Haelle / 14h
A 3-year study published in Pediatrics examined newborns in Norway. It found a clear benefit for the baby when mom gets a COVID vaccination during pregnancy. (Image credit: Didier Pallages)
The U.S. is sending thousands of paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne to the Middle East. And, congressional Republicans present Democrats with a new deal to fund the Department of Homeland Security. (Image credit: Alex Wong)
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by NPR Staff / 17h
Iran submitted a counterproposal that includes safeguards against future attacks against Iran and the country's right to "sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz," Iranian state Press TV reported. (Image credit: Majid Saeedi)
by Alina Selyukh / 17h
A murky corner of the financial world is now the fastest-growing source of funding for small businesses. One state, Connecticut, had given these lenders unusual power. That may be about to change.
by Jude Joffe-Block / 17h
Data brokers buy up huge amounts of information from cell phones and browsers to sell for targeted advertising. But the government, including ICE, also buys the data. (Image credit: Mandel Ngan)
by Emily Bollinger / 17h
Shelter villages offer temporary and private places for the unhoused to sleep and store belongings. One of the newest, The Bridge, opened recently in central Illinois. (Image credit: Emily Bollinger)
by Franco Ordoñez / 17h
Here is a reminder of some of what he has said - and where the US is now. (Image credit: JIM WATSON)
by Emma Bowman / 17h
Gaslight Therapists say we're overusing the word. Here's what it actually means — and what the Ingrid Bergman film that helped birth the word can teach us about it. (Image credit: Herbert Dorfman)
OpenAI said Tuesday that it was "saying goodbye to the Sora app" and that it would share more soon about how to preserve what users already created on the app. (Image credit: Michael Dwyer)
Secretary of State Marco Rubio will travel to France this week to try to sell America's skeptical Group of Seven allies on the Iran war that has sent global fuel prices soaring. (Image credit: Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
Tech company Anthropic, the maker of the Claude AI system, is suing the Trump administration over the government labeling it a "supply chain risk." (Image credit: Patrick Sison)
The National Transportation Safety Board said it has concerns about air traffic controllers who work the midnight shift taking on extra work in an airspace as busy as LaGuardia's. (Image credit: Yuki Iwamura)
The jury agreed that Meta engaged in "unconscionable" trade practices that unfairly took advantage of the vulnerabilities of and inexperience of children. Jurors found there were thousands of violations, each counting separately toward a penalty of $375 million. (Image credit: Jim Weber/Santa Fe New Mexican)
by Gabrielle Emanuel / 1d
It's a major source of revenue for the island. And it's controversial. Now countries are sending Cuban doctors home in response to pressure from the Trump administration. (Image credit: Orlando Sierra/AFP)
by Jaclyn Diaz / 1d
The confirmation comes just days after the White House announced details of its own task force to pursue fraud in government programs. (Image credit: Anna Moneymaker)
The Israeli military estimates it would need several more weeks of fighting to complete its war goals in Iran, at a time when President Trump says the U.S. is negotiating an end to the war. (Image credit: AFP via Getty Images)
Delta Airlines is temporarily suspending specialty services to member of Congress due to resource constraints from the ongoing shutdown of DHS. (Image credit: SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)
by Rachel Treisman / 1d
Dayton Webber, 27, is accused of shooting a man in his car during an argument. He has shared his story of becoming a pro athlete after losing his arms and legs to a childhood bacterial infection. (Image credit: Kevin Sullivan)
by Terry Gross / 1d
New Yorker writer Jon Lee Anderson describes conditions in Cuba, why it's vulnerable now — and what regime change would mean — considering the Castro family's entrenchment in the Cuban government.
by Isabella Gomez Sarmiento / 1d
Pulido has been a mainstay of Tejano music —a genre blending traditional regional Mexican elements with country, pop and conjunto influences — for more than three decades. (Image credit: Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
by Brittney Melton / 1d
The Senate has confirmed Markwayne Mullin as the next Department of Homeland Security secretary. And, Iran has denied that it's in talks with the U.S. to end the war, which is now in its fourth week. (Image credit: Chip Somodevilla)
President Trump said on Tuesday Iran made a valuable offer to reach a deal with the United States, in talks that Iran has denied are taking place. "We've won this. This war has been won," Trump said. (Image credit: Chip Somodevilla)
In his speech, Kim expressed pride in the country's rapid expansion of nuclear weapons and missiles in recent years, calling it the "right" choice. (Image credit: 朝鮮通信社/AP)
Analysts say coal may stabilize supplies for now but they warn that continued reliance on the polluting fuel will worsen air pollution. (Image credit: Andy Wong/AP)
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