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President Trump says he could travel to Pakistan if a peace deal is reached with Iran.
“This, after he said more peace talks, could happen in Pakistan in the coming days.”
And here's Daniel Kurtz-Live and has more. Speaking next to the Marine One helicopter on the White House lawn, Trump told reporters he would be willing to travel to Islamabad to seal a peace deal. "I would go to Pakistan, Pakistan has been great, they've been so good, Islamabad, I'll be, I might go. I might go."
Peace talks in his on-the-bod last weekend yielded no deal between the U.S. and Iran. On Wednesday, Trump told the New York Post that more peace talks in Pakistan could be coming yet this week, but the White House has provided no further information. Trump has now left Washington for an economic roundtable in Nevada, followed by a turning
point USA event in Arizona on Friday.
Daniel Kurtz-Live and NPR News. The White House is refusing to tell Congress how much the U.S. war on Iran has cost so far.
“At a Senate hearing today, White House budget director Russell Vod wouldn't tell lawmakers”
the estimated cost of the war to taxpayers. This says Vod says the White House is working on a request for additional defense spending, though he declined to specify an amount. The White House said earlier it requesting one and a half trillion dollars in its defense spending budget proposal for the 2027 fiscal year.
Federal investigators are looking into allegations against now former Congressman Eric Swallwell, the swift downfall for the California Democrat, followed media reports last
week in which multiple women accused him of sexual assault and harassment.
And here's Jacqueline Diaz has more. A source familiar confirmed to NPR that the Justice Department is investigating former California representative Eric Swallwell, no other details were immediately available. This comes on top of two other investigations now happening in district attorney's offices in Los Angeles and New York.
The Democrat dropped his bid for California governor and resigned from Congress this week. Multiple women have come forward in recent days accusing Swallwell on this conduct, ranging from non-consensual sexual advances to rape. Swallwell says he has made mistakes but strongly denies the most serious allegations. Jacqueline Diaz and PR news.
The foreburs and crew of the Artemis 2 lunar mission have been back on earth for nearly a week now and they say the experience with something they won't forget. We are bonded forever. I mean, that's the closest for humans can be and not be a family. That's commander Reed Weisman.
He says they haven't had a chance to decompress and reflect yet because of numerous doctor visits and testing, Weisman Christina Cook, Victor Glover, NASA astronauts and Jeremy Hansen from the Canadian Space Agency spoke at the Johnson Space Center today in Houston. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. Rocha launched a massive aerial attack on Ukraine targeting civilian areas with hundreds
of drones and dozens of missiles, killing at least 16 people and wounding more than 100. Ukraine says its air defense is shot down or disabled most of the incoming targets. The attack is the largest in the past two weeks. Rocha says it was in retaliation for Ukrainian drone strikes in Russia. A federal panel has voted to move ahead with President Trump's plans to build a 250-foot
victory arch at the National Mall in Washington, DC. And here's Anastasia Silukus reports the proposed monument would be the largest victory arch in the world. The Commission of Fine Arts is a seven-member body whose ranks are composed of Trump appointees.
The lead designer on the project, Nicholas Chabano, noted the arch would stand 250 feet high to mark 250 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence. If built to the proposed height, it will tower over Arlington National Cemetery and obstructs sightlines to the Lincoln Memorial. The committee has asked for some tweaks to the submitted design.
An suggestion was to replace proposed statues of lions adorning the arch's base with the eagles as animals native to North America. The proposed DC arch would be the biggest structure of its kind in the world. For example, it would dwarf the arch to Trump and Paris, which stands at only 154 feet, Anastasia Silukus and Peronus.
We've all been there, maybe somebody tells you too much about the twisting of a movie or they tell you who dies at the end, in other words, you've run into a spoiler.
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