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Support for NPR, and the following message come from the estate of Joan B. Kroc, whose bequest serves as an enduring investment in the future of public radio and seeks to help NPR produce programming that meets the highest standards of public service in journalism and cultural expression. Live from NPR News in New York City, I'm Dwa al-Lisa Kautau. That is the sound of March. demonstrators shouting whose streets are streets in Washington, D.C., four weeks after President Trump sent National Guard troops to guard the Capitol. This is D.C. resident June Lee. This is our home. We need to fight and we need to resist. And we don't need the National Guard

or eyes, especially on our street and our neighborhood. And it's happening our home. So we need to raise our bones. Many carried signs. One red fascism belongs in fiction. another red let freedom ring. Many of the protesters are also upset over immigration raids taking place across the country. The Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem recently announced expanded immigration operations in Chicago. The Associated Press said it has new evidence raising serious questions about Israel's rationale for an attack that killed 22 people, including five journalists last month. and appears Jane Araff reports from Amman Jordan. Israel said after striking the Nassar hospital

that it was targeting a Hamas position, saying in support of the accusation, there was a towel on the camera and on the cameraman. AP says the camera was that of a Reuters video journalist who regularly filmed from that position while covering the camera to protect it from heat and dust. The Reuters cameraman, along with a reporter, working for AP, and three other journalists were killed along with

17 other people, when Israel shelled the hospital and then struck it again as first responders rushed in. The AP report says Israel frequently observed the media group by drone, giving them the opportunity to identify the Reuters video journalist. The Israeli prime minister called the journalist killing a tragic mishap that has not explained how it happened. Jane Arraf and Pairn News Amman. Apple is the latest tech firm to face copyright lawsuit over how its artificial intelligence systems are trained. Then PR's Bobby Allen reports. Authors Grady Hendricks and Jennifer Robertson

say Apple made no attempt to pay them after using their copyrighted books to make the company's AI tools smarter. The lawsuit seeking class action status comes in the wake of a major settlement in a separate AI copyright case. AI Lab Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion to authors and publishers

who alleged the company used pirated versions of their books to train its Claude Chatbot. The judge in that case said Anthropic could have bought the books from the authors, but the company instead chose to steal them. The AI boom has been made possible by tech companies sucking up vast swaths of human knowledge under a legal defense known as fair use. But now a wave of lawsuits are attacking that behavior as illegal. This is NPR. More than two years into Sudan's civil war, the United Nations says a paramilitary group has committed abuses. that amount to crimes against humanity, and both sides are perpetrating war crimes.

Michael Koloki reports that Sudan's civilians are paying the highest price. The UN says the rapid support forces, or RSF, have committed murder, torture, forced displacement and persecution on ethnic grounds, acts that constitute crimes against humanity, and that the RSF and its allies have used starvation as a method of warfare. The RSF and the Sudanese armed forces remain locked in a deadly power struggle. The UN notes both sides have perpetrated war crimes and human rights violations, targeting civilians for their perceived affiliation with the opposing group.

In all, tens of thousands of people have been killed and millions displaced. For NPR News, I'm Michael Koloki in Nairobi. Davey Johnson, the manager who led the New York Mets to the 1986 World Series title, has died at the age of 82. Met's team historian Jay Horwitz said Johnson's wife confirmed his passing in Sarasota, Florida. Johnson won the World Series twice as an all-star second basement with the Baltimore Orioles. He also played for the Atlanta Braves, the Philadelphia Phillies and Chicago Cubs from 1965 to 1978. Former Nationals General Manager Mike Grizzell told NPR that Davie was, quote, a Hall of Famer caliber manager with a baseball

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