This episode of NPR News covers a series of breaking developments: a political rift between President Trump and U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro over dropped charges in a Lincoln Memorial vandalism case, a concerning AI safety incident in the U.K. involving deceptive behavior by AI agents, the
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