Justice Department Firings, Humanitarian Parole Ends, China And AI

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🗓️ 28 January 2025

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At least a dozen Justice Department employees involved in prosecuting President Trump received dismissal notices, humanitarian parole programs are ending for 1.4 legal immigrants to the US and a Chinese company has developed a free competitor to ChatGPT.

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0:00.0	Among Trump's latest moves, the Justice Department says it's fired over a dozen officials.
0:07.6	I have never seen this sort of effort to just sweep out, experience people.
0:12.8	All of them were involved in prosecuting President Trump.
0:15.7	Amy Martinez, that's Leila Faddle, and this is up first from NPR News.
0:21.3	Also, the Trump administration is ending programs that granted legal status to nearly one and a half million immigrants in the U.S.
0:27.8	These things were originally designed to allow people to have temporary protection, and instead they'd just become back-door immigration programs.
0:36.5	They were granted asylum after fleeing violence and disasters in their home country.
0:40.4	So what happens to them now?
0:41.9	And a Chinese AI chatbot is free and getting more popular than chat GPT.
0:47.3	It's got the attention of the tech world and Wall Street.
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