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Morning News Brief: Hegseth impeachment, new House GOP leader, UK probes base plot
Steve Inskeep, Michel Martin
Republicans block Hegseth impeachment, Trump ally picked to lead House GOP minority, UK investigates alleged Iran-backed plot.
Earlier this year ExxonMobil CEO Darren Woods attended a meeting at the White House where he told attendees that Venezuela was "uninvestable." Now the company has signed a memorandum of understanding with the country.
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Oil giant ExxonMobil left Venezuela years ago. Now it's considering a return
Julia Simon
Steve Bannon, former adviser to President Trump, attends a pre-trial conference hearing in a fraud case against him in February 2025.
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Both sides now? Critics slam DOJ moves to dismiss convictions of Trump allies
Carrie Johnson

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A dispatcher with Anne Arundel County Fire Department answers a 911 emergency call from their department dispatch center in Glen Burnie, Md., in 2020. 911 dispatchers have long dealt with swatting calls, where callers report a bomb threat, mass shooting or some other kind of life-threatening emergency with the intention of initiating a massive emergency response. Now, AI-generated voice calls are posing a new challenge.
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Swatters are increasingly using AI technology that creates synthetic voices or sound effects to generate remarkably believable fake emergency calls to law enforcement.
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A group of Americans, whose work intersects with the criminal justice system in New York City, tour the Moabit pretrial detention facility in Berlin, Germany. The nonprofit Vera Institute of Justice invites officials to tour prisons in Germany to see how they design their system for rehabilitation.
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U.S. officials look to Europe to learn how to make prison better
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