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Live from MPR News, I'm Jial Snyder, top-centred Republicans are circulating ...

proposal that would end the more the month-long shutdown of the Homeland Security

Department. But President Trump and Senate Democrats are indicating they do not support the offer. Here's impure, Sam Greenglass. "A negotiations have felt like whiplash," Senate Majority Leader John Thune said his colleagues had sold President Trump on a plan to fund the HS, except for the ice unit responsible

for removal operations. That could be done later in a party-line reconciliation bill, along with parts of the voting law over Hall Trump wants. "Maybe you can just say that my colleagues were more persuasive than I was." A few minutes later, Trump threw cold water on that.

"I think any deal they make, I'm pretty much not happy with it."

And my naughty leader Chuck Schumer declined to say his caucus would back the deal as is. "As I said, we need reforms." Senate Democrats and the White House are continuing to exchange offers, Sam Greenglass and Pierre News washington, and Trump again declaring victory over Iran and speaking in the Oval Office Tuesday Trump again said the U.S. is in talks with Iran to end the fighting.

Iran has denied any negotiations or taking place, Trump's comments come as thousands of U.S. marines are headed to the Middle East. In Piers also confirmed that deployment of some 2,000 soldiers from the Army's 82nd Air Board of Division. In Piers' annual curtslavery reports a series of Trump administration policies testing the

patient's of U.S. farmers. The war on Iran and the resulting closure of the straight-of-war moves have spiked the costs of nitrogen, fertilizer, and fuel.

All of that comes after deportations then doubt the agricultural labor force and tariffs

both pushed input prices higher and disrupted normal trading relationships. Illinois farmer Dave O'Brien is fed up with the Trump administration's messaging. "It bothers me with these statements about well, there's going to be a little hurt to be spread around, but that'll get better. That's almost an insult.

But we're supposed to take it in the ribs, but I guarantee you'll get it better." In a statement to NPR, agriculture secretary Brooke Rollins said President Trump is "looking at every potential option to lower fertilizer prices. Danielle Kurtzleben and PR News." "Open AI says it is discontinuing a tool for making AI video that was widely used to generate

fake videos of real events. And Piers Jeff Brumfield reports." "Open AI says it's discontinuing its Sora tool, which could generate 10 second videos of virtually anything imaginable.

Like this fake video showing Venezuela, celebrating in the streets after the U.S. capture

of Nicolás Maduro."

Those celebrations never happened.

Neither did scores of fake videos of ice agents, attacks on Israel and Iran, or countless other so-called news events generated by Sora, experts say even if the app has gone AI video is here to stay, and it's making it harder than ever to tell what's real and what is fake. Jeff Brumfield and PR News.

"This is NPR. A jury in New Mexico has found that social media giant Madda failed to warn users about the dangers of its platforms that its platforms posed to children. The jury Tuesday found that in violation of New Mexico's consumer protection law by hiding what it knew about risks to such children's safety and mental health, ordering Madda to pay

$375 million in penalties. But on Facebook, Instagram, and what's happened says it plans to appeal a jury is deliberating a similar case in Los Angeles. The head of NASA says the agency is going to pause its effort to build a small, orbiting space station around the moon.

NPR's now-greenfield-boys reports the agency will instead focus on the lunar surface. Since private astronaut and wealthy entrepreneur Jared Isaacman became NASA's administrator a few months ago, he's been shaking up its Artemis moon program. In his speech at NASA headquarters in Washington, DC, he said work on the lunar space station known as Gateway would stop, so that all efforts can go towards constructing a permanent

moon base. The moon base will not appear overnight.

We will invest approximately $20 billion over the next seven years and build it through

dozens of missions. NASA is on the verge of launching four astronauts when a mission to circle the moon and return for the first time since the 1970s with a launch opportunity coming in about a week, landing astronauts on the lunar surface is targeted for 2028. NL Greenfield-boys NPR news will prices are falling.

The International Standard Brent Crude has dropped about 4% around $96 a barrel. I'm Joel Snyder, NPR News.

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