Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.
Historic face-to-face talks between the U.S. and Iran having concluded in Pakistan with no agreement to end the war. Vice President Vance says they talked for 21 hours. "We've had a number of substantive discussions with the Iranians. That's the good news. The bad news is that we have not reached agreement.
“And I think that's bad news for Iran much more than it's bad news for the United States of America.”
So we go back to the United States having not come to an agreement. We've made very clear what our red lines are, what things we're willing to accommodate them on, and what things we're not willing to accommodate them on. And we've made that as clear as we possibly could. And they have chosen not to accept our terms."
Speaking there from Islamabad, this day is after a fragile temporary ceasefire was announced. President Trump spoke before the talks ended downplaying the outcome. "I'm getting a lot of reports that have been meeting for many hours as you probably have noticed. We'll see what happens. Look, regardless, we win. Regardless, what happens, we win."
Speaking there from the White House before leaving for Florida tonight, and the U.S. military says two of its navy warships sailed through the straight of Hormuz today.
“And talks are planned for next week to discuss another front in the Middle East war that's still going on in Lebanon.”
President Trump says he asked Israel to scale back its invasion of Lebanon, but Israeli air strikes are still hitting the southern part of the country. Hundreds have been killed according to government officials. Lebanon's ambassador in Washington talked to Israel's really counterpart yesterday.
The first official contact between the two countries since 1983.
The FAA and the Pentagon say they've signed an agreement on the use of counter-drone laser systems at the southern border. If here's Joel Rose reports, the deal comes after disagreements about those systems went public. The FAA and the Pentagon say they've completed a thorough safety assessment of a high energy counter-drone laser system, and that these systems do not pose "undue risk" to passenger aircraft, unquote. But the FAA was not sure about that back in February.
The agency briefly shut down the airspace around El Paso. After the Pentagon permitted U.S. Customs and Border Protection to use a counter-drone laser system, before the FAA had completed its safety review. The FAA later shut down a smaller area in West Texas after a similar incident. In coordinated press releases, the FAA and the Pentagon say they've completed that safety review after watching demonstrations of the system last month.
Joel Rose and PR News Washington. Before a crew of the Artemis-2 lunar mission aren't now in Houston, where they got a big welcome from the NASA team on Earth. NASA Johnson Space Center Director Vanessa Wash.
For the very first time Orion's life support systems were tested with astronauts on board,
“an essential mission milestone for deep space when we go there.”
Further and further ahead. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. The federal agency, the support's the nation's libraries, is now guaranteed to continue its congressionally mandated work. And PR's Chloe Veltman reports on the settlement agreement reached this week
between the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Justice Department, and the American Library Association, along with the workers union that fought to preserve the agency. The agreement resolves litigation from last year challenging the Trump administration's attempt to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services through
Executive Action. It ensures that grants will continue workers will keep their jobs and it puts an end to attempts by the administration to further target the Institute. Sam Helmick is the president of the American Library Association. We now can continue to focus on funding our library
showing up for our libraries and promoting literacy and lifelong learning, which is what we're all about. The Institute of Museum and Library Services declined to comment. Chloe Veltman and PR News. A raffle in France is offering a chance to win a Picasso.
The tickets cost 100 euros and the proceeds support Alzheimer's research. The draw for the Tet-Defem painting created in 1941 takes place Tuesday at Christie's in Paris.
Previous raffles in 2013 and 2020 raised over 10 million euros for cultural and humanitarian causes.
The number of tickets is capped at 120,000 and officials say that the drawing will be broadcast online. I'm Janine Herbst and you're listening to NPR News from Washington. Right now we are living through some of the most tumultuous political times our country has ever known. I'm David Remnick and each week on the New Yorker Radio Hour I'll try to make sense of what's happening alongside politicians and thinkers like Cory Booker, Nancy Pelosi, Liz Cheney and so many more.
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