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1:00We should take decisive action now, so that we can slow down the pace of development in order to protect the American people and ensure that AI is proceeding safely. House Speaker Mike Johnson told CNN that AI companies should take the lead. We need to handle this new technology like we have others in the past and make sure we're doing everything we can, responsibly, to also not smother American innovation. We have to do both things simultaneously. After this week, the House will recess until after the midterms making sweeping legislation extremely unlikely anytime soon. Sam Greenglass and PR News, Washington. The Trump administration has been dealt to set back at the Supreme Court, the Court Monday, declining to allow the Postal Service to enforce a rule targeting mail ballots. The White House wanted restrictions in place before the November midterm elections, but the Jonses is upheld a federal judges ruling that blocked a rule while legal challenges proceed. Speaking to reporters from a wheelchair outside the Senate chamber Monday, Kentucky Republican Mitch McConnell said

2:02he was looking forward to casting his first vote since a fall at his home in June. I want you to be here today. I'm ready to see you. Don't be in back the world. McConnell's three month long absence raised questions about his ability to serve in Congress. He says he is still not quite back to 100%. But he has assured Senate Majority Leader John Thune that he will do his best to be present for tough votes. The head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization says he was not granted a visit to Austria to attend the annual gathering of the new in UN nuclear watchdog. The IAEA reported Iran to the UN Security Council last week. Here's NPR's Hadila Shalchi. Iran condemned the exclusion of nuclear chief Muhammad Islami from the International Atomic Energy Agency's annual meeting in Vienna and called it a violation of Iran's rights. According to the Austrian nuclear representative to the UN, a request for an exemption to Islami's travel band sanction was submitted to the UN Security Council,

3:03and it was denied. Austria said it was then obliged to deny him entry. This is the first time in Iranian nuclear chief has not attended the meeting in many years, and it comes right after the IAEA reported Iran to the UN Security Council for failing to cooperate with the agency in an investigation into uranium traces found at undeclared sites. You're listening to NPR news. The famed costume designer Bob Mackie died Monday. He was 87 years old. And Piers Kloy, Veltman reports that Mackie was known as the sultan of sequence. Bob Mackie's dazzling designs became as memorable as the stars who wore them. Think Shares feathered Mohawk headdress ensemble at the 1986 Oscars. He designed and estimated 17,000 costumes for Carol Burnett's variety show, including a famous dress made out of a pair of curtains from her 1976 gone with the wind parody. Think I'll start in the wind and I just couldn't resist it. In a 2003 interview with WHY Wise Fresh Air,

4:03Burnett recalled Mackie's impact. Sometimes he would put me in stuff that would literally save the sketch. Mackie won nine Emmy Awards and a Tony Award and continued dressing stars into the 21st century like Miley Cyrus and Pink, Kloy Veltman and Piers News. The horror comedy show Widow's Bay was a big winner at Monday night's Emmy Awards in Los Angeles. The show broke a record for a comedy series with 14 wins, including Best Comedy Series and three acting wins, including Best Actor for Star Matthew Reese, who was a who also won Best Actor for his lead role in The Beast in Me. Reese is now the first person to win lead acting honors at the same ceremony. Also Jean Smart won her fifth straight lead actress Emmy for her role in Hacks, making her the first woman to win Best Actress for each season of a show's run. Major financial markets in Asia mixed in Tuesday trading after calls by industry leaders were slow down in the development of artificial intelligence, oil prices remain elevated. I'm Jyle Snyder, NPR News.

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