Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor, Johnston.
A U.S. delegation is heading to Islamabad today for another round of peace talks with
“Iran and Iranian delegation is also there, but officials say there are no plans for direct”
talks with the U.S. Allen Air is a former U.S. diplomat who worked on the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. He tells NPR's weekend edition that the two sides are at an impasse. The U.S. Navy is blockading Iranian ports and the Iranian economy was horrible before the war, and the U.S. is feeling the world is feeling significant pain because of the closure
of the straight of horror moves. So both sides are feeling significant pain, but perversely, I don't think either side really is yet gotten to the place where they're eager to negotiate. So we'll see what happens if in fact there is a meeting. The Pentagon says the U.S. blockade of Iranian ships and ports would continue for as long as
it takes to get Tehran to agree to a deal. The government of Argentina says it wants to reopen talks with Britain over the Falkland Islands, a leaked Pentagon memo suggested Washington might review its position on the British
“overseas territory as punishment for the U.S. refusals to join the war on Iran.”
The BBC's Mini Swayby has more. Argentina's sovereignty claim over the Falkland Islands, which it calls Las Malvinas, is not new. It has often been used as a rousing call by presidential candidates vying for voters, but the heated long-standing debate has been reignited by the leaked Pentagon memo.
And apparently emboldened by this, on Friday, Argentina's President, Javier Malay, an ally of Donald Trump, posted on social media in capital letters that the islands were, are,
and always would be, Argentine.
His foreign minister said Argentina wanted to restart negotiations with the U.K. something London does not want to engage with. It says the territory sovereignty rests with U.K. NPR has not independently confirmed details of the leaked memo. The Justice Department says recipients of the deferred action for childhood arrivals program
“are not necessarily shielded from deportation.”
It's the latest move by the Trump administration to strip away protections for the half-million people who are brought to the United States illegally as children before 2007. The decision comes from the Board of Immigration Appeals, which is an administrative court that hears appeals from immigration courts, both are part of the Justice Department. This case centers on a DACA recipient who was detained by customs and border protection
while boarding a domestic flight last summer. She was later released from immigration detention in October, and a federal immigration judge said that her DACA status protected her from deportation. The Department of Homeland Security has appealed. It argues that DACA protections are not absolute in our subject to discretion.
Humanabustillo and Pernus. This is NPR News. The Justice Department says it will allow firing squads as a federal method of execution as the Trump administration moves to speed up capital punishment cases. It says it's also bringing back lethal injection using pantobarbital the same method used
in 13 federal executions during President Trump's first term in office.
The Biden administration had removed that drug from federal protocols, citing concerns about the risk of unnecessary pain and suffering. President Trump is set to attend the annual White House Correspondence Association dinner tonight in Washington, D.C. and P.R.'s Tamry Keith reports it will be his first appearance as President, but not his first time at the dinner.
In 2011, Trump attended as a celebrity guest at a time when he was on a high-profile conspiracy driven quest to get then President Obama to release his birth certificate. Both Obama and comedian Seth Meyers mocked Trump relentlessly that night. Trump boycotted the dinner his entire first term. This year, the Association hired a mentalist instead of a comedian, and the president
who calls the press the enemy of the people agreed to attend. Press Secretary Caroline Levitt gave a preview of sorts. And his speech will be very entertaining. That is what I will tell you, so everyone should tune in. The event is meant to be a celebration of a free and independent press, Tamry Keith and
P.R. News. I'm Windsor Johnston and P.R. 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. Is it an honest pursuit of justice or just the latest example of the Trump DOJ targeting the president's political opponents?
