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with Iran may be in the works. He told the New York Post Tuesday that the fresh talks
“could take place in the next couple of days in Islamabad, despite the U.S. blockade of”
Iranian ports and Iranian threats to strike targets across the region. Meanwhile, Vice President and J.D. Vance address supporters in Georgia Tuesday, including some questioning the administration's policy on Iran, Rahul Bali, with member stationed WABE reports. Vance is appearance in this college town as part of a tour by turning point U.S. say an organization that focuses on young conservatives. Vance says President Trump does not want to make a small deal
with Tehran, but rather a grand bargain. That's one of the reasons why one, I'd say in Pakistan, we made a ton of progress, but the reason why the deal is not yet done is because the President, he really wants a deal where Iran doesn't have a nuclear weapon. Iran is not state-sponsoring terrorism, but also the people of Iran can thrive and prosper and join the world economy.
Vance also called on the audience not to disengage just because they disagree on one issue.
For NPR News, I'm Rahul Bali in Athens, Georgia. Members of the Far Right Extremist Groups known as the Proud Boys and Old Keepers are celebrating after the Justice Department moved to vacate their convictions for seditious conspiracy against the United States. The convention stemmed from the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol Empire's Tom
Drysbock reports. The Trump administration is asking to vacate the convictions against members of extremist
“groups who planned and coordinated key parts of the January 6th attack, which injured 140 police”
officers. Most of the January 6th riot defend its received full partings from President Trump last year, but a group of about a dozen people convicted of seditious conspiracy received commutations, releasing them from prison, but leaving the felony conviction on their records.
Now, the Justice Department has filed papers to effectively erase those convictions, saying it's in the interests of justice. Among other effects, the move would restore their right to own guns, Tom Drysbock and PR News. The House chamber Tuesday, clerk, Tilees Ali, read the resignation letters submitted by Texas
Republican Tony Gonzalez and California Democrat Eric Swallwell, who maintains the allegations against him or false. "Expelling anyone in Congress without due process within days of an allegation being made is wrong, but it's also wrong for my constituents to have be distracted from my duties. Therefore, I plan to resign my seat in Congress effective at 2 p.m. Eastern Time on April
14, 2026."
Swallwell's facing sexual misconduct allegations and a second woman came forward today to
accuse him of rape, Tony Gonzalez has acknowledged it a fair with a former staffer, who later died by suicide. You're listening to NPR News. The public defender for the man accused of throwing an incendiary device at the home of open AI CEO Sam Altman, says her client has autism and was experiencing an acute mental
health crisis. And San Francisco Deputy Public Defender, Diamond Ward, said Tuesday that prosecutors have overcharged Daniel Moreno-Gama to curry favor with Altman. Moreno-Gama was charged Monday with attempted murder. He's being held without bail and raiming a set for May 5th.
Virginia, now part of a national effort to ensure that only popular vote winners can become president for Virginia's governor has signed the bill as impures Ashley Lopez reports. This is a national effort to circumvent the electoral college. It's an agreement among states to award their presidential electoral votes to the nationwide popular vote winner, not their state winner.
It doesn't go into effect, though, until there are enough states signed up to reach the required 270 electoral votes needed to elect a president. Now with Virginia, the effort has a total of 222 electoral votes. Patrick Rosensteel is with national popular vote. If we turn this to a system in which every voter in every precinct is politically relevant
in the presidential election, not just a handful of precincts in a handful of battleground states, I mean, that obviously changes the outcome of the elections. Scholars say this bipartisan effort will likely face legal challenges. Ashley Lopez and P.R. News. Asian shares following Wall Street higher, benchmarks in Japan, Australia, South Korean
China, advancing in Wednesday trading. They're rallying out Wall Street that saw the S&P 500 flirt with a record closing high oil prices, remain below $100 a barrel. This is in PR news. There's so much TV out there that we can't get to it all, good stuff, fall through the
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