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A U.S. delegation is poised to travel to Islamabad soon for another round of peace talks
between the U.S. and Iran.
“Meanwhile, Iranian officials say they have no plans to participate in talks with the U.S.”
this week. A two-week ceasefire is set to expire by Wednesday. A very bescarrant is on the ground in Vann, Turkish city near the Iranian border and spoke with Iranians, there. In a train station waiting room near the Iranian border, one woman told us she's hopeful that the U.S. and Iran can find a compromise to end the war.
She asked NPR not to share her name due to the risk of arrest when she returns to Iran for speaking to foreign media. "What's up, Miguel?" "Anything that can bring peace back to the people in any way possible," she sets. At the same time, she said she hopes the Iranian government ends its crackdown on internal
critics. Others do not want the war to end. Another woman, who asked not to be recorded, said she's nervous about the talks.
“She said Iranians are willing to receive an entirely burned and flattened Iran.”
But an Iran that does not have the Islamic Republic ruling it. Frontier News, I'm Deribu Scaron, in Vaughn, Turkey. After waiting, some two months, tariff refund day has arrived, and Pierskad Horsley reports hundreds of thousands of businesses are scrambling to get back the money they paid in tariffs before the Supreme Court ruled the Trump administration's levies were illegal.
"There are some 330,000 businesses that were wrongly forced to pay those tariffs, and a lot of them are going to be at their keyboards looking for refunds. People like this to try to get tickets to a hot concert or a sporting event. J4men runs a toy company that paid about $7 million in tariffs, and he is eager to get that money back."
"I can tell you, as six people in our company will be having in our hands on the trigger and we'll push that button as soon as we see it." The process is supposed to be pretty straightforward, similar to what the customs service does routinely, when say a company overpaid the tariff by mistake.
But customs has never tried to repay this much money, all at once."
NPR Scott Horsley reporting. The FBI Director Cash Patel has filed a defamation lawsuit against the Atlantic and one of its reporters for a recent article alleging Patel has bouts of excessive drinking. "We have more from NPR's Jaclyn Diaz." FBI Director Cash Patel is accusing the Atlantic of publishing false claims about him in an
article published on Friday. Patel is demanding $250 million in damages. He claims that the Atlantic's goal was to destroy his reputation and drive him out of the FBI. The reporter behind the story, Sarah Fitzpatrick, is also named in the lawsuit. The Atlantic responded in a statement today saying, "It stands by its reporting and that
it plans to quote "vigorously defend the media company and its journalists, Jaclyn Diaz and PR news." "This is NPR." The American Library Association has released its list of the most challenge books of 2025, and PR's Anastasia Siulcus reports on where the pressures coming from.
The ALA says over 90% of challenges came from conservative activist groups, such as Moms for Liberty, as well as local officials and administrators, not from parents or individuals.
The Library Association says that 2025 saw the second highest number of book challenges
to libraries since it began documenting such efforts, 4,235 individual titles were challenged last year, just 5 fewer than the all-time high in 2023. The most frequently challenged books at libraries across the country are the young adult titles sold by Patricia McCormick and the perks of being a wallflower by Steven Chibowski, as well as Maya Cobabes, Gender Queer, a coming of age memoir told in comics form.
Anastasia Siulcus and PR News, New York. "Afliates from around the globe ran the Boston Marathon today defending champion John Kourier of Kenya broke the course record at two hours one minute and 52 seconds. Fellow Kenyan, Sharon Locati, is the women's champion. She crossed the finish line in two hours 18 minutes and 51 seconds.
The NFL draft is in Pittsburgh. This week's big event is expected to draw hundreds of thousands of football fans, which would roughly double the city's population while big crowds turn out a lot of students will get to stay home for remote instead of in-person learning. This is NPR News.
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