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Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Willman. Trade negotiations between the U.S. and Mexico are continuing. President Trump spoke with Mexico's president on Thursday, and both sides agreed to extend the discussions for another 90 days. Republican Congressman Don Bacon, meanwhile, says he's unhappy with much of Trump's trade policies. Well, I don't really agree with two-thirds of his tariff policy, so that I think we do need.

China is a bad trade partner. The EU, though they don't have tariffs, they have barriers, so there needed to be some discussions there, not necessarily a trade war. So I'm not against all tariffs, but I think what the president has done has not been very helpful. Trump, meanwhile, announced new higher tariffs for more than 60 countries this week. Major portions of the European Union's new legislation governing artificial intelligence have now come into force.

Terry Schultz reports. A year after the EU's AI Act went into effect, the next stage in implementing the landmark legislation began Saturday. The Act is aimed at making sure artificial intelligence is used safely and responsibly, and regulates AI systems based on their perceived level of potential risk to users.

Some of the latest obligations affect providers of general purpose AI, or GPAI models, which include X's GROC and OpenAI's chat GPT. The rules require more transparency on how AI models are trained and better enforcement of copyright protections. The EU has created a code of practice with the help of experts to give providers guidance on complying with the new requirements. Signing up to the code is voluntary. Meta is the only major provider that has refused to do so.

For NPR News, I'm Terri Schulz. U.S. companies operating in Europe meanwhile must also file the regulations which has led to complaints from some businesses. Two families, including three children who are U.S. citizens, were deported from Louisiana to Honduras earlier this year. Now they're suing ICE for allegedly violating their due process rights by deporting them without a trial. Melbridge is a member station WRKF has more.

The lawsuit filed by the National Immigration Project and others is on behalf of two New Orleans-based Honduran mothers and their three American children, including a five-year-old boy undergoing treatment for kidney cancer. The families were detained in April after the mothers attended a regular ICE check-in. The suit alleges the mothers were not given access to legal counsel or allowed to choose whether their children would be deported. The lawsuit says one of the mothers wanted her son to stay so he could keep receiving cancer treatment. The Trump administration has said the mothers chose to have their children deported with them. The lawsuit asks for a jury trial and relief from damages. For NPR News, I'm Mel

Bridges in Baton Rouge. A search is continuing in Montana at this hour for an Army veteran who they say opened fire at a bar in Anaconda Friday morning, killing four people. Police say the search is focused on a mountainous area in the western part of the state. While a lockdown was lifted on Saturday, police say residents in the area should remain on high alert. They say 45-year-old Michael Brown may still be armed and dangerous. You're listening to NPR News.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo, also known as DRC, has plans to carve up more than half the country into blocks for fossil fuels. As Empire's Julia Simon reports, this means drilling in crucial habitats for gorillas. The DRC recently opened 306 million acres for oil blocks. A new report from Earth Insight, a research group, finds 64 percent of the area is intact tropical forest. These forests are full of biodiversity, including endangered gorillas, bonobos, and vast amounts of carbon stored in trees and peatlands.

They're also home to tens of millions of people, many indigenous. The economics of large new oil developments like this are also in question. As the world transitions away from fossil fuels to renewable energy, batteries, and geothermal, countries like DRC could be stuck with stranded assets. That is, assets with little value. Julia Simon, NPR News. Major League Baseball's Speedway Classic was suspended on Saturday because of rain. The game is the first ever regular season game played in the state. The game between the Atlanta Braves and the Cincinnati Reds was stopped by rain before

there even was a first pitch. Once it finally began, it was stopped again. The game will now take place Sunday afternoon. Cameron Young holds a five stroke lead going into Sunday's final round at the PGA event underway in Greensboro, North Carolina. On Saturday, he made a pair of late birdies to walk away with a five shot lead over at Nico Echeverria. No one else is closer than eight shots. Young is considered to be the best player without a win on the main PGA tour.

He is finished as runner up seven times. I'm Dale Willman, NPR News.