This NPR News episode covers multiple pressing issues: legal challenges to President Trump's latest tariff policies, criticism of Cornell University's handling of a 2024 sexual assault case, OpenAI's launch of its new AI agent DOTS amid growing safety concerns, Pentagon plans to cut gener
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