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0:00Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Wilman. The CEO of the AI company in Thropic says the industry should slow its fast-moving development. Dario Amade says a pause is needed to allow safety measures to catch up. In an interview with Fortune Magazine, open AI CEO Sam Altman agrees and he says now is not the time for his company to go public. We're not rushing into an IPO. I actually think that given everything happening with safety, this would be right now would be an ill-advised moment to go public. And we don't feel pressure on that. Civil rights advocates are speaking out this weekend against the Trump administration's new proposal for unprecedented changes to the next U.S. census. The plan would reshape voting maps and how federal funding is distributed across the country. NPR's Hansela Wong reports. According to the 14th Amendment, the quote, whole number of persons in each state must be included in the census numbers used to determine each state's share of congressional seats and electoral college votes for a decade. The Trump administration's proposal argues that the Constitution's framers did not

1:00intend for the word persons to include people living in the states who do not have U.S. citizenship or a green card. Trump officials are also proposing cutting questions about race and ethnicity because they see a quote, reduce need for that information, which is used for civil rights enforcement. Erica Bernal Martinez leads a National Association of Latino-elected and appointed officials' educational fund. This proposed role is not an administrative technicality. It is an attempt to make Latinos and other communities disappear in the 2030 census. The public can comment on the proposal through October 13th. Hansela Wong, NPR News. The Justice Department says an Afghan woman has been deported from the U.S. after she conceded to being what they've labeled an alien terrorist. The deportation marks the first time the government has brought a case before the alien terrorist removal court. NPR's Ava Berger has more. In July, U.S. authorities arrested 47-year-old Nasira Hajizada in Texas for allegedly supporting an ISIS-inspired terrorist plot. Hajizada came to the U.S. in 2018 as a legal permanent resident.

2:02Last year, her son and son-in-law were convicted of plotting an attack on Election Day, 2024. U.S. authorities say Hajizada worked to quote, radicalize her family. But a bringing charges against her for the first time ever, the Justice Department brought her to the alien terrorist removal court, created in 1996. Hajizada waved her rights to challenge the tension and agreed to the deportation. Her attorneys say they were unable to see classified evidence in the case, and they are quote, confident a judge will find the court unconstitutional. Ava Berger and NPR News. A search is underway on the Java Sea after a passenger ship carrying more than 240 people went missing this weekend. Indonesian officials say the vessel was traveling from Surabaya on eastern, the eastern end of the island of Java to East Kalimantan when it experienced a communications failure. Its last known location is about 90 miles south of its destination. This is NPR News. The 83rd Venice Film Festival Awards were announced Saturday to film Woman Unknown

3:06won the Golden Lion. It said drama about a woman in Denmark after the Nazi occupation. Matilda Arscell won best actress for her role in that movie. John Malkovich won best actor for the film Wild Horse 9 and the documentary Naza won a special jury prize. A British Museum has removed an ancient Egyptian mummy from public display in order it says to respect the wishes of the dead. Vicki Barker reports from London. The high status Egyptian woman named Asru had been on display in Manchester Museum since 1825 when its layered linen wrappings were peeled away revealing the mummified body beneath. But now the 2500 year old remains have been moved into storage with museum managers, saying the removal, quote, aligns most closely with what we understand about her own wishes. The Pitt Rivers Anthropological Museum in Oxford removed all human remains from its displays six years ago.

4:07And this week it announced its returning the bones of dozens of indigenous Naga people to their ancestral homes in India and Myanmar. For NPR News, I'm Vicki Barker in London. The US Women Beat Spain Saturday is 76 to 66 to win the semi-finals in the FIBA World Cup basketball championship. So now play France in the title game Sunday, the game will be a rematch of the 2024 Paris Olympic gold medal game, the US won that game by one point. I'm Dale Wilman, NPR News. This is Ira Glass. On this American life, we tell stories about when things change. Like for this guy David, whose entire life took a sharp, unexpected, and very unpleasant term. It came me a while to realize that it's basically because the monkey pressed the button. That's right, because the monkey pressed the button. Spreising stories every week, wherever you get your podcasts.