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Vice President J.D. Vance is leading a U.S. delegation in Pakistan today for high-level
talks aimed at ending the war in Iran. The negotiations in Islamabad are expected to focus on stabilizing a fragile ceasefire that was reached between Washington and Tehran earlier this week. The talks are also expected to include operations in the straight of Hormuz. Betsy Jolls reports from Islamabad.
Journalists have been curalled into the city's convention center, waiting for any news about how exactly these talks will look. The details of the meeting between the U.S. and Iran have been kept under close wraps, even their exact timing remains in question. People I spoke to were mostly surprised that Pakistan managed to pull this off.
Here's 19-year-old Kizra Zikir.
“The talks are usually important at all, and now the U.S. is like, they listen to Pakistan.”
Pakistan's Prime Minister called the talks "make or break" for whether a fragile ceasefire will hold. That's after the country's leaders rangled behind the scenes and then publicly for weeks to make them happen. For NPR News, I'm Betsy Jolls in Islamabad.
Former Vice President Kamala Harris is not ruling out a run for the White House in 2020-28, NPR's deepest shiver on reports, Harris is kicking off the tour through southern states, including South Carolina. At the National Action Network Convention in New York, Harris told Reverend Al Sharpton that she might run for President again.
"Listen, I'm Mike, I'm thinking about him." It's by no means a commitment to launch what would be her third bid for the White House, but her recent comments come as the former Vice President and California native is about
“to embark on a series of stops to key election states, including North Carolina and Georgia.”
Deepish Ivaram and PR News The Artemis-2 astronauts are adjusting to life back on Earth, following a splash down in the Pacific Ocean on Friday, and PR's NL Greenfield Voice reports the crew's successful fly-by of the moon is seen by NASA as a key step toward the agency's plan to build a permanent base on the moon.
The four astronauts set a new distance from Earth record. They also snapped stunning photos of the moon as they saw parts of its surface that had
never been seen by human eyes before.
After their safe return, NASA's Lori Glaze said that everyone working with the Artemis Moon program is fired up. "Apollo was when I was a child and to be here now and say we actually did this, we've gone back and we're going to go build a moon base. We are going to have an enduring presence on the moon, just incredibly powerful."
Next year, the agency plans to test out lunar landers in space with a goal of landing astronauts on the moon in 2028, NL Greenfield Voice and PR News. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. The White House has released official plans for a 250-foot arch that President Trump has proposed to add to the national mall in Washington, D.C. and PR's Anastasia Salukis reports
the proposal will be reviewed next week. The committee charged with reviewing the plans for the arch is the commission of fine arts, a group president Trump has filled with his appointees. The submitted plans from the Harrison Design firm show structure very similar to the model that Trump showed off at a fundraising dinner at the White House last October.
The proposed arch bears a striking resemblance to the arctic Trump and Paris and is tapped with two eagles and a winged crowned figure reminiscent of the Statue of Liberty. On one side, the words "One Nation under God" appear with the phrase "with liberty and justice for all on the other." The structure would be more than twice the height of the nearby Lincoln Memorial.
Anastasia Salukis and PR News, New York. Heavy rain is pounding parts of Hawaii with four castors morning of flash flooding in possible landslides. The National Weather Service says a floodwater remains in effect statewide as multiple rounds of rain move across the islands.
Saturated ground from earlier storms is increasing the risk of dangerous run-off and rising streams. Some areas could see several inches of rain with conditions expected to worsen into the weekend. I'm Windsor-Johnston and you're listening to NPR News from Washington. We've all been there, maybe somebody tells you too much about the twist ending of a movie
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