NPR News: 08-07-2025 5PM EDT
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🗓️ 7 August 2025
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| 0:00.0 | As AI permeates every aspect of our lives, who are the people behind this huge inflection point? |
| 0:05.8 | What keeps them up at night? |
| 0:07.3 | I fear that what it means to be human may suddenly not be our own. |
| 0:11.4 | We've got a special series from NPR's TED Radio Hour. |
| 0:14.4 | It's called The Profits of Technology. |
| 0:16.9 | What they got right, wrong, and where these pioneers think we're headed next. |
| 0:21.2 | Listen to the TED Radio Hour, wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:24.8 | Live from NPR News, I'm Janine Hurst. |
| 0:27.9 | In Miami, a federal judge has issued an order temporarily halting construction at an immigration center in Florida's Everglades. |
| 0:36.9 | And peers Greg Allen reports the judge says the installation of lighting, paving, and other building on the site has to stop, |
| 0:43.8 | while she hears a challenge to the facility brought by environmental groups. |
| 0:48.6 | Environmental groups and the Miccosuki tribes say construction to the facility, |
| 0:52.2 | dubbed alligator alcatraz by officials without public |
| 0:54.9 | input or an environmental impact statement violates federal law. Lawyers for Florida and the Trump |
| 0:59.9 | administration said because the facility was built and is operated by the state, the federal law |
| 1:04.4 | doesn't apply. U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams was unconvinced by that argument. After two days |
| 1:09.6 | of hearings, she became frustrated when |
| 1:11.2 | she learned construction was still going on at the site, and lawyers for Florida refused |
| 1:15.0 | request to put it on hold. Judge Williams issued a temporary restraining order that stops |
| 1:19.5 | construction activities for the next 14 days. Immigration detentions and other operations are |
| 1:24.5 | unaffected. Greg Allen, NPR News, Miami. |
| 1:30.7 | Vice President Vance met with Indiana Governor Mike Braun and Republican state legislative lawmakers today |
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