"Life from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.
"There's some confusion as to whether a second set of peace talks between the US and
Iran will take place in Pakistan this weekend." The White House says special envoy Steve Whitkoff and President Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, will head to Islamabad tomorrow for talks with Iran, but Iran's foreign ministry spokesman says on "Extonite that no meeting is planned to take place between the US and Iran."
Foreign minister Abbas Iraqi is in Islamabad and Tehran says that's for bilateral talks with Oman and Russia, and that he will also hold meetings with Pakistan's senior leadership. Pakistan was the mediator for the talks two weeks ago led by Vice President Vance that didn't lead to a deal. President Trump this week extended the ceasefire indefinitely, but both the US and Iran maintain
“a blockade of the straight of Hormuz, the crucial waterway that some 20% of the world's”
oil travels through. The two sides are far apart of many issues, including control of the straight and Iran's nuclear program, the US and Israel started the war in Iran nearly eight weeks ago. A federal court of appeals has ruled the President Trump's ban on asylum at the southern border.
It's unlawful. As Empire's area, Martinez Beltran reports, it's a blow for the proclamation that Trump
signed his first day in office.
Back in January 2025, the White House said that suspending asylum at the southern border was meant to prevent immigrants participating in a "invasion" from coming to the US. But now that this is the secret court of appeals has ruled, Trump's proclamation circumvents the removal procedures crafted by Congress. The court also says that the administration's policy cast aside the federal laws that
“give people the opportunity to claim asylum.”
Migrant rights groups say they're ruling is a victory for those seeking safety and protection at the US-Mexico border. Said he'll Martinez Beltran and PR news. Georgia's governor says nearly 1,000 homes are endangered from wildfires in the southern part of the state, or will Bali of member-station W. A.B.E. in Atlanta reports, more than 120
homes and structures have been destroyed, the most in state wildfire history.
Governor Brian Kemp spoke after flying over the wildfire zone. Unfortunately, we believe that fire activities can remain extremely high throughout the weekend and really we need to change in the weather. All of this is happening as a southern part of the state deals with extreme to exceptional drought conditions.
There's now a mandatory outdoor burn ban in place. Any fire that breaks out that we have to go chase or the locals do takes resources away
“from us dealing with these devastating fires that potentially can burn another home.”
The governor says one of the largest wildfires is believed to have started when a balloon hit a power line. For NPR News, I'm Ronald Bally in Atlanta. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. The food and drug administration says it will offer a fast review for three psychedelic
drugs that are being studied for hard to treat mental health conditions, including depression and PTSD. This following an executive order from President Trump calling for access to the drugs to be sped up. It reflects growing popular support for the psychedelics among Trump's supporters, including
combat veterans. Researchers have found remnants of what they say is the largest and vertebrate ever documented, gargantuan octopuses that once prowled the oceans. Our Daniel has more. A team of scientists slice through large rocks that had formed on the seafloor a hundred
million years ago. They created 3D reconstructions of any fossils inside, which included a handful of octopus jaws, the only hard part in these soft-bodied creatures. The jaws allowed an estimation of the animal's body size, and they were likely colossal. Each one larger than a school bus.
Drug motelosa is a paleontologist at Roe University, Bohem. Just few fossil findings may shed very new light on the evolution of the biosphere. The results paint a vivid picture of the ocean ecosystem of the late crotaceous, one that would have been filled with a variety of large and hungry predators. For NPR news, I'm Aridaeanyall.
Holster dented the day in mixed territory the Dowdown 79 points, the Nasdaq up 398 S&P556. I'm Janine Herbst and PR News in Washington. This week on the NPR politics podcast, for decades the Southern Poverty Law Center has tracked and even infiltrated hate groups. But the Justice Department now alleges the way they funded that work amounted to bank
fraud. Visit an honest pursuit of justice or just the latest example of the Trump DOJ targeting the president's political opponents.
