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A running at end American delegations are meeting in the Pakistani capital Islamabad, trying
“to negotiate and end to the Middle East war.”
It would be the first face to face engagement between Iran and the United States since 2015
when the Obama administration negotiated and a nuclear deal with Iran that the Trump administration ended. NPR's Deanna did reports. Both delegations met individually with the Pakistani Prime Minister Sharbar Sharif, the Americans are led by Vice President JD Vance, and the Iranians by the Parliament Speaker Muhammad
Barra Ralebaugh, the negotiations are based on a 10-point Iranian plan that includes an end to attacks and sanctions on the country. President Trump told me on Friday that his main demand was, "No nuclear weapon, that's 99 percent of it." The Trump administration is defending a plan to restructure the U.S. forest service in
the US.
“It's the biggest annual increase in 22 months, stripping out volatile energy and food prices,”
core inflation was 2.6 percent high enough to make the Federal Reserve cautious about
additional cuts to interest rates. Nevertheless, stocks rallied for the week that arrows 3 percent, the S&P 500 index climb 3 and a half percent, and then, as Deanna's deck jumped nearly 4.7 percent. Scott Horsley, in pair news, Washington. The Trump administration is reset defending a plan to restructure the U.S. forest service.
Let's go back to that report from Rachel Cohen. 57 of 77. Forest service labs nationwide are on a list to shutter. Scientists at these labs study everything from pollinators to wildfires. The agency said this week the closures don't mean an end to research, it's just relocating
small teams to other spaces.
“But Carl Hopman, a union representative with the National Federation of Federal Employees,”
says those workers haven't been told where their jobs could be moved. Well, we asked them for details, they say, well, those are still being worked out. He says the changes could harm long-term projects. For MPR News, I'm Rachel Cohen. The four Artemis two astronauts are now heading and get to medical evaluations.
This after a 10-day journey to the far side of the moon, the spacecraft had a near-perfect return to Earth Friday evening, landing in the Pacific Ocean, just off the coast of San Diego, and then the astronauts were imported into a ship, you're listening to NPR News. The Coachella Music and Arts Festival is underway near Palm Springs, California, and PR's Isabella Gomez, Santiago reports the musicians headlining the museum festival this
year, include Sabrina Carpenter, Justin Bieber, and Carol G. More than 100 artists will perform at Coachella this weekend and next. The Southern California Music Festival, which has been running for more than 25 years, is one of the hottest tickets of the festival season. This year, many believers, fans of the Popstar, Justin Bieber, are sure to tune in.
Saturday night will mark his first major concerts in the cancellation of his Justice
Tour in 2022. There are other big names in store too. Rockstar Jack White was a last-minute addition to the lineup. With English indie band, the X-X is reuniting this year for the first time since 2018, and the Colombian star Carol G will make history on Sunday night as the first Latina
to ever headline the festival. Isabella Gomez Armiento and PR News. Defending Master's Champion Rory McElroy begins today's third round of the Master's Golf Tournament with a commanding six-stroke lead over the field, McElroy Friday blistered the back nine of Augusta National Shooting Six Birdies on the final seven holes to score a 65.
That sets a Master's record for the largest lead at the halfway point of Golf's first master's tournament to the year. He is 12 under for the tournament. McElroy will tee off this afternoon at 250 Eastern Time in the coveted final pairing of the day. This is NPR News from Washington.
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