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Justice Department Firings, Humanitarian Parole Ends, China And AI
Tue, 28 Jan 2025
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.Want more comprehensive analysis of the most important news of the day, plus a little fun? Subscribe to the Up First newsletter.Today's episode of Up First was edited by Eric Westervelt, Anna Yukhananov, Kevin Drew, Janaya Williams and Alice Woelfle. It was produced by Ziad Buchh, Nia Dumas and Claire Murashima. We get engineering support from Arthur Laurent and our technical director is Zac Coleman.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
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Among Trump's latest moves, the Justice Department says it's fired over a dozen officials.
I have never seen this sort of effort to just sweep out experienced people.
All of them were involved in prosecuting President Trump.
I'm Amy Martinez, that's Leila Fadl, and this is Up First from NPR News. Also, the Trump administration is ending programs that granted legal status to nearly 1.5 million immigrants in the U.S.
These things were originally designed to allow people to have protection, temporary protection, and instead they've just become backdoor immigration programs.
They were granted asylum after fleeing violence and disasters in their home country, so what happens to them now?
And a Chinese AI chatbot is free and getting more popular than ChatGPT. It's caught the attention of the tech world and Wall Street. Stay with us. We'll give you the news you need to start your day.
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