00:01The U.S. and Iran are at war, so why is the Trump administration letting Iran's president
00:06and foreign minister into the country next week?
00:09Plus, President Trump endorsed her.
00:11Now Republican Congresswoman Maria Elvira Salazar is telling him his immigration crackdown
00:17has gone too far.
00:19And AI is helping build the next generation of AI.
00:23Anthropix says Claude is now doing a quarter of the work on developing the models that
00:28come next.
00:31The stories that matter, the facts you can trust.
00:36From across the country to around the world, this is Unbiased Updates from Straight Arrow.
00:43Hey everybody, I'm Christian Bryant.
00:45The U.S. and Iran are at war, but next week Iran's president and foreign minister will
00:51be allowed into the United States.
00:53The Trump administration has approved visas for Iran's top delegation to attend the United
00:58Nations General Assembly in New York.
01:00The State Department says it approved visas for Iran's core delegation and essential staff,
01:06including President Massoud Pazeshkin and foreign minister Abbas Aranchi.
01:10They will face restrictions on where they can travel and what they can buy while they're
01:15here.
01:16The decision comes with the U.S. and Iran still locked in a war that has now lasted more than
01:21six months.
01:21And Washington is still trying to squeeze Tehran financially, imposing another round of sanctions
01:27this week aimed at what the Treasury Department calls Iran's critical financial lifelines.
01:33At the same time, one U.S. ally is drawing a line on how far it will go in the
01:38war.
01:39South Korea's president says his country will not send military assets to the Middle East in
01:44a way that could pull it into the conflict, despite President Trump's calls for Seoul to
01:49take a more active military role.
01:51And overnight, another attack was reported in the Strait of Hormuz.
01:55British maritime officials say a vessel was hit by an unknown projectile, starting a fire
02:00on board.
02:01The crew is reported safe.
02:03Iran's Revolutionary Guard separately claimed it struck a ship making what it called an illegal
02:08passage through the strait.
02:09It's not yet clear whether Iran is claiming the same attack.
02:14The Postal Service has stopped building a new computer system that would have changed
02:18how mail-in ballots are handled this election.
02:20It was ordered by President Trump, and the Supreme Court blocked it last week.
02:24Postmaster General David Steiner says once that court ruling came down, the work stopped.
02:30Trump's executive order called for federal agencies to build state citizenship lists and
02:35feed them into a new Postal Service portal.
02:38The idea was that mail ballots could only be sent to voters cleared through that system.
02:43But earlier this month, a whistleblower report said the system wasn't ready and had serious
02:48problems.
02:49Steiner doesn't agree with that.
02:51He says, yes, they had some trouble building something this big this fast, but he's confident
02:56it would have been ready around September 15.
02:59For this election, though, the Postal Service says it's back to business as usual.
03:03A Republican congresswoman in Florida has a message for President Trump about his immigration
03:09crackdown.
03:09She thinks some of it has gone too far.
03:13And she's putting that message directly into a campaign ad less than seven weeks before
03:18the midterms.
03:19This is Congresswoman Maria Elvira Salazar, a Trump-endorsed Republican running for reelection
03:25in a Miami-area district where nearly three-quarters of the population is Hispanic.
03:30And in her new ad, she directly calls out the president.
03:34Mr. President, some of your immigration enforcement efforts have gone too far.
03:38In July, 50 percent of the 50,000 people that were detained had no criminal record.
03:43Be careful what your advisers are telling you about immigration policies.
03:47The same Hispanics who helped you get to the White House in 2024 feel betrayed today.
03:52Salazar has broken with Trump on immigration before.
03:55She pushed for a legal work status for some undocumented immigrants who have been here for
03:59years, pay taxes, and don't have a criminal record.
04:03Her Democratic opponent, Elliott Rodriguez, a former Miami news anchor, has also made Trump's
04:09immigration policies part of his campaign.
04:11He released this ad back in January.
04:14Yes, secure borders matter, but so does due process and our Constitution.
04:19When our leaders stay silent as these rights are trampled on, that silence is not leadership.
04:26Trump endorsed Salazar earlier this year.
04:29The White House has not yet responded to her new ad.
04:33There's a new rule this morning in the fight over the Kennedy Center.
04:36If anyone plans to demolish it or make other major changes to the building, they have to
04:41give more than 30 days' notice first.
04:44That order came from a federal judge Thursday.
04:46And right now, the Kennedy Center is closed and crews have been putting up fencing outside.
04:51Kennedy Center officials say the current shutdown is only for seven days because of safety problems
04:57inside the building.
04:58They say that's a separate issue from the board's plan to close for roughly two years of renovations.
05:04Representative Joyce Beattie is challenging that in court.
05:08We want to make sure that we keep the Kennedy Center healthy.
05:12And certainly, as you know, we have been dealing with the unlawful naming, and it is being held
05:18hostage.
05:19Every time there's an issue that comes up, it has been connected.
05:30And then there are these pictures captured through the windows of Air Force One.
05:35Trump was photographed looking at a large printout that appears to say Kennedy Center demolished.
05:42We don't know who made it, what the rest of it says, or whether the administration is
05:46actually considering tearing the center down.
05:48The White House didn't answer that question Thursday.
05:51In a statement, they said, quote, for years, Democrats let the Kennedy Center rot.
05:56As President Trump said last night, without his intervention, the Kennedy Center will inevitably
06:01continue to decline.
06:02The judge declined to hold an emergency hearing, but ordered the center to provide a detailed
06:08update by Wednesday.
06:10AI is now helping build the next generation of AI.
06:14Anthropix says its Claude model is doing more and more of the work developing its own successor.
06:22And this has happened fast.
06:24Back in February, Claude was leading basically none of Anthropix model research and development.
06:30Six months later, it was leading 26%.
06:34Anthropix says that means Claude can now take a high-level prompt and do most of the work on
06:39a task from start to finish.
06:41Humans are still supervising it, so Claude isn't building its replacement all by itself.
06:46But about 90% of Anthropix research and development now involves some level of collaboration with
06:52Claude.
06:52And here's where this gets interesting.
06:56Anthropix CEO Dario Amadei has been one of the people calling for a slowdown in AI development
07:01over safety concerns. And his own company says AI models helping accelerate their own
07:07development could eventually make them harder for humans to understand or control.
07:13Finally this morning, imagine taking in a stray cat and years later finding out it's a species scientists
07:19didn't even know existed. That's basically what happened in Bolivia. And it has now led to the first new living
07:26cat species identified in more than a century.
07:28Meet Leopardus tilcaio, a tiny species of tiger cat first described this week in the journal Current Biology.
07:37And tiny is the word. It's smaller than your average house cat, about 18 inches long and weighing just 3
07:43pounds.
07:44One of the cats was actually kept as a pet by a local family before being taken to a wildlife
07:50sanctuary.
07:50Researchers eventually tested its DNA and found its lineage split from other tiger cats about 1.4 million years ago.
07:59There's still plenty scientists don't know about these cats. Camera traps indicate they may be more active at night,
08:06and researchers are still working out their diet and how many there actually are. So, yes, they may spend their
08:13days sleeping.
08:14That part at least sounds like a cat. And before we go, a few things we're watching today.
08:20At 2.30, President Trump is set to make an announcement on health care from the White House.
08:24Later, at 6.30, protesters will gather outside the Kennedy Center before forming a human chain around the building.
08:31The group is protesting Trump's changes to the center and his talk of possible demolition.
08:36Then, tonight at 7, Trump will attend a MAGA Inc. dinner in Virginia, with the midterms now less than seven
08:43weeks away.
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