"Live from MPR News in Washington, I'm Nora Rom.
U.S. delegations planned trip to his llama bod today, for possible talks on ending the
“war in Iran. This came shortly after Iran's foreign minister had left his llama bod.”
The President said if the Iranians want to talk all they have to do is call. Pakistan has been attempting to bring the parties together. Betsy Joel has more from his llama bod." Iran says it has no plans to meet the U.S. This was conveyed in a post on X by Iran's foreign ministry spokesperson, Smeyal Bakai. He said instead that Iran's quote "observations would be conveyed to Pakistan in meetings related to its ongoing mediation efforts to restore
peace in the region." Pakistan's Prime Minister Shabashireev said in a post on X that he'd also discussed, quote, "Pakistan Iran bilateral relations in his meeting with Iraq achi. For MPR News, I'm Betsy Joel's in his llama bod."
Palestinians are voting in the occupied West Bank, the first municipal elections for almost
five years, and the first in Gaza for two decades. The vote is taking place amid apathy
“from many Palestinians. The BBC's John Donison reports.”
"At the polling station, we visited near Ramallah. There was a steady trickle of people voting, but not a tide. Turn out by early afternoon here was only 9%. Most people said they were voting on local issues, schools, clean streets, and infrastructure. It's 20 years since the last national Palestinian elections in 2006, which were won by Hamas. They've not been allowed to put up candidates today. The group's popularity has fallen in Gaza because
of the war, which some garrisons partially blame on Hamas. But it has surged in the West
Bank, where there is widespread disillusionment with the Palestinian Authority."
The BBC's John Donison reporting from Ramallah. U.S. officials say they're expanding the federal death penalty and adding more execution methods, such as firing squad and electrocution. George Hale from Member Station W. F.I.E. reports.
“The U.S. government has executed 16 federal prisoners in the modern era. All ethnicians”
sold execution chamber in Terahot, Indiana, and all by lethal injection, acting attorney general Todd Blanche says relying on that method is no longer tenable. The company most recently supplying the U.S. with Pinto Barbatol stopped making it a mid-pressure from death penalty opponents. Blanche told prison officials to start bringing back older methods, including firing squads. Monica Foster is executive director of the federal defenders office in
Indianapolis. She says the new directive is paradoxical. "So they want to grease the skids. They want to kill people, but they want to make it as easy on them so as they possibly kill." And one big obstacle to that, there's nobody to execute. Only three federal prisoners have active death sentences, and all are years away from completing their appeals. For MPR News, I'm George Hale in Bloomington, Indiana."
This is NPR News. A federal appeals court yesterday ruled that President Trump's executive order banning migrants from seeking asylum at the southern border is illegal. The court held that immigration laws give people the right to apply for asylum, and the president does not have the authority to override asylum procedures. The White House says it will seek further review. K-pop's biggest group is coming to the U.S. this weekend NPR's Isabella
Gomez-Sarmiyento reports BTS will kick off the North American leg of its worldwide tour in Tampa. BTS's world tour spans more than 70 dates, and within just days of tickets going on sale, all of the stadium shows in North America, Europe, and the UK sold out. That's because this isn't just any regular tour. It's the band's comeback since they went on hiatus nearly four years ago, for mandatory military service in South Korea.
Last month, BTS released the long-awaited album Ariron, which debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart. The group heart-horn is a major milestone for its ferment fan base known as the Army. Bloomberg projects that this tour could rival Taylor Swift's Aeros Tour, which is the most successful tour of all time. Is the Bela Gomez Armanto and PR news? Britain's King Charles begins a state visit to the U.S. Monday, in time for America's
250th birthday. As visit includes a commemoration of the September 11 attacks, a speech to Congress and teeth the White House. I'm Nora Rom, and PR news. 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
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