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Support for NPR and the following message come from the Kauffman Foundation, providing access to opportunities that help people achieve financial stability, upward mobility, and economic prosperity, regardless of race, gender, or geography. Coffman.org Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jail Snyder. President Trump wants to host next year's G20 Summit of World Leaders at a resort he owns in Miami. He tried to do something like that in his first. term, but it generated so much controversy, Trump changed course, as Empires-Tamber Keith reports.

Trump says everyone wants the G20 summit to be held at his Florida Gulf Resort because the location is perfect. They'll have their own buildings. It'll be incredible for them. And being like 10 minutes, less than 10 minutes from the airport, and it's a big airport, international, all of the plans will be able to land go right into there. Trump insists he will make no money on it. During his first term, even Republicans pushed back on the prospect that Trump could personally profit as countries paid for lodging at an international summit. As for this year's G20 in South Africa, Trump confirmed he isn't going and ascending the vice president in his place. Tamara Keith, NPR News, the White House. President Trump says his executive order renaming the Department of Defense to the Department of War is about winning.

The move would restore the name the Pentagon held until after World War II, the change, requires congressional approval. Seven months in to President Trump's second term in office, new jobs data from the Labor Department, show the U.S. economy added 22,000 jobs in August, and the unemployment rate rose to 4.3 percent. A hiring falls short of expectations by economists like Justin Wolfers at the University of Michigan. There were a bunch of policies that were getting a lot of people in the business community very unhappy, and the puzzle was why did the economic data still look like it was doing okay. And today we got the resolution to that puzzle, which is the reality is the economy slowed.

Wolfers spoke to ABC. The Monthly Jobs Report issued yesterday was the first following the firing of the Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erica McIntyre. At the White House, the Trump administration said it could be a year before the economy sees better job numbers. The Health and Human Services Department responding to word that it plans to cite use of Tylenol by pregnant women as having links to autism, even though scientific research does not back up That claim, here's NPR's Yuki-Noguchi. An upcoming report will suggest acetaminopin, known to many as Tylenol, is linked to autism and that folic acid, a vitamin, could prevent it, according to a story in the Wall Street Journal.

When asked about the upcoming report, a spokesperson for the HHS said, quote, until we released the final report, any claims about its contents are nothing more than speculation, end quote. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the controversial head of HHS, has repeated falsehoods about the causes of autism. The Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine says acetaminifin is safe for pregnant women and that untreated pain and fever in pregnancy can be dangerous. Yuki NPR News And you're listening to NPR News. The Artificial Intelligence Company Anthropic has settled a class action lawsuit brought by a group of book authors for $1.5 billion.

The suit claimed Anthropic used copyrighted material. without permission to train its chatbots, as NPR's Bobby Allen reports. A federal judge found that when Anthropics Claude Chapbot trained on copyrighted books, it was legal under fair use law since the output was transformative. But the judge also ruled that when Claude ingested material from databases of pirated books, it did violate copyright law. Anthropic agreeing to pay authors and publishers $1.5 billion is what the author's legal team says is the largest ever copyright settlement.

It amounts to about $3,000 for each of an estimated 500,000 books covered by the case. The payout represents the first resolution in a wave of lawsuits at the center of a debate of whether the AI industry broke laws and quickly building powerful chatbots using the works of millions of authors, publishers, and journalists. Bobby Allen and PR News. Terms of the Anthropic settlement were filed in the same federal courts in San Francisco where a separate group of authors sued Apple on Friday, claiming Apple illegally use their copyrighted books to help train its artificial intelligence system.

Flushing Meadows, New York, the U.S. Open Women's singles finalist today. Arena Sabalinka, Belarus, will be defending her title this afternoon against American Amanda Anasmova. The men's championship is tomorrow. Yannick Center and Carlos Al-Karaz will renew their rivalry. After advancing yesterday, they'll play for the title for the third Grand Slam final in a row. I'm Jail Snyder, NPR News. This message comes from Wise, the app for using money around the globe. When you manage your money with Wise, you'll always get the mid-market exchange rate with no hidden fees.

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