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High-level negotiations are underway in Islamabad, where Vice President J.D.
“Vance is leading a U.S. delegation in talks with Iran aimed at stabilizing a fragile”
ceasefire. NPR's Franco-Rodonia's reports, Vance's warning, Iranian leaders, not to try to "play the U.S.." Vance is leading a team that includes President Trump's special envoy, Steve Whitkov, and son-in-law Jared Kushner.
The high-stakes role represents what may be Vance's most significant moment of his political career. It will certainly be a defining factor as he looks further ahead to a possible run-up to White House himself.
It's also a strategic move by the administration.
Vance's known as the member of the cabinet who is most opposed to the war, so choosing him for these talks, according to foreign policy experts, is a possible sign to Iranians
“that the Trump administration is serious about peace, Franco, or Danyas, NPR News.”
Russia and Ukraine have agreed to a limited 32-hour ceasefire to mark the orthodoxies to her holiday. If the agreement holds, it marks a rare pause in a war now in its fifth year. NPR's Charles Mains reports from Moscow. In a statement, Russian President Vladimir Putin said his forces would abide by the ceasefire
from 4pm Saturday through end-of-easter Sunday. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky had previously called for "neaster truce" and agreed
to Putin's offer, saying it was a chance for Russia to choose real progress towards peace
and avoid a return to hostilities. Yet the Creman spokesman, military pescove, later characterized the ceasefire as a temporary humanitarian gesture. pescove made clear in Moscow's view, and he lasting settlement, depended on Ukraine making further territorial concessions.
The man Kiev is rejected, not least, without iron-clad security guarantees from the U.S. Transmains and Piaonews, Moscow. The U.S. Court of International Trade heard arguments this week, in a case challenging President Trump's authority to impose sweeping new tariffs. At issue is Trump's use of a 1974 trade law to justify the measures.
The law allows temporary tariffs during a financial emergency tie to international trade and balances. He tells NPR the Constitution puts tariff authority, squarely, in the hands of Congress. The President has no independent power in the area of his own. He only has such authority as Congress has given him, and here they have not given him
the kind of vast sweeping authority he's claiming. The law, so it was brought by two dozen states and several businesses. The FAA says anti-drone lasers can now be used along the U.S. Southern border earlier this year. The agency shut down airspace in parts of Texas after the Pentagon deployed the systems.
This is NPR News. Democratic Congressman Eric Swallwell is facing allegations of sexual assault as he campaigns for governor of California, a former staffer claims he assaulted her on two occasions when she was too intoxicated to consent, as well as responded to the accusations on Friday. "I do not suggest to you in any way that I'm perfect or that I'm a saint.
I've certainly made mistakes in judgment in my past, but those mistakes are between me and my wife and to her I apologize deeply for putting her in this position." Swallwell is denying all allegations calling them absolutely false and politically motivated. Since Ari is being sued by the African charity, he co-founded 20 years ago when honor of his late mother, Princess Diana, Vicky Barker, reports from London.
Prince Harry, his co-founder, and the entire board of trustees resigned from the Santa Bale Charity last year after a highly public spat with the board's new chair. At one point Harry referred to "blate and lies" told about him. Now the charity, which helps HIV positive young people in Lassutu and Botswana, has filed suit in Britain's high court, accusing Harry and a fellow trustee of defamation, a claim
both men have rejected. "It's just the latest legal headache for the Duke of Sussex, who's awaiting a high court decision on the phone hacking case. He and several other celebrities have brought against the male newspapers. For NPR News, I'm Vicky Barker in London."
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