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Written by Hanna Lee Copy Editor, Digital News
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Good morning. If, in reaction to recent Donald Trump news, you were wondering what the White House TV pool is, our Washington correspondent Mike Crawley lays it out in this issue. We'll also look at why the AI race is looming large as Chinese President Xi Jinping visits Washington.
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Mass shooting at house party in South Africa leaves 11 dead and 3 wounded, police say
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Three shooters killed at least 11 people, including a woman who was believed to be pregnant, in an attack at a house party in South Africa, police said Wednesday.
Three others were wounded in the mass shooting late Tuesday night in KwaMakhutha township, about 30 kilometres south of the city of Durban on the country's east coast.
The people had gathered at the house for a party when the suspects entered and opened fire, police said. Ten people, including the pregnant woman, died at the scene and an 11th was declared dead at the hospital.
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The White House TV pool, explained
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By Mike Crawley Washington Correspondent, CBC News
Here in Washington, U.S. President Donald Trump's edict barring three major media outlets from access to the White House is big news.
Trump banned cable networks CNN and MS-NOW, as well as print and online publication Politico, for what he claimed was unfair coverage of his presidency. In solidarity, the other major U.S. networks — ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC — withdrew from the pool that shares responsibility for gathering video of Trump's events.
This meant that the only video footage of the official opening of the new helipad at the White House on Monday was a feed provided by the president's press office in which nothing Trump said was audible.
Pool TV coverage is a long-standing practice not only at the White House, but also in situations worldwide where a large number of media outlets need access to the same footage — think Parliament Hill, election campaigns and the Olympics.
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(Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)
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While not a member of the White House TV pool, CBC News is a client of the U.S. networks' video services, which provide access to the pool feed.
There's also pool coverage of the president shared among radio networks, newspapers and photo agencies. They have not joined the boycott, although the pool photographers, like those seen above, waited until the end of the day Monday before transmitting their images of Trump's events.
Coverage of Trump's speech at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday was not affected because the UN provides video of the proceedings.
But the boycott could have an impact on what you see of Trump once he returns to Washington, including this week's planned summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping. (More on that below.)
The banned outlets are due in court today in an attempt to get their White House passes reinstated. Their lawsuit alleges the administration is violating the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment on freedom of the press.
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'Nuclear' threat or market boom? Either way, the AI race looms over Trump-Xi talks
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Donald Trump is welcoming Chinese President Xi Jinping to Washington with a full state arrival ceremony. It comes as the leaders face intense global pressure to place guardrails over the increasingly volatile artificial intelligence race.
What's happening: The U.S. and China are locked in a breakneck race to advance the frontier of AI systems, and policymakers are struggling to keep up. At the same time, tech executives from some of the biggest companies are calling for meaningful regulation of their own firms, as real-life examples continue to pile up of models going rogue. Some analysts are even calling for "nuclear-style" safeguards, likening the AI competition to the nuclear arms race during the Cold War. | | | |
