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Today's plan talks in Pakistan on the war in Iran or cancelled.
President Trump said he told his negotiators not to go to Islamabad, saying there is tremendous infighting and confusion within the Iranian leadership and nobody knows who's in charge."
“"I think the prime minister of Pakistan is great, and you know they'd like to see something”
happen, but we're not going to be traveling 15-16 hours to have a meeting with people that nobody ever heard of." "It's not known when negotiations may resume." NPR's cut-lines door of has been following the talks from Beirut Lebanon. She says it appears Iran and the U.S. aren't in-pass."
Neither side seems to be buddhaing. Defense Secretary Pete Higgseth said yesterday that the U.S. will maintain the blockade around the street for, quote, "as long as it takes." The U.S. says it's intercepting any ships coming to or from Iranian ports more than 30 so far.
"You know, that's as Iran has maintained its military control of the street itself, keeping most commercial ships from passing through, so basically, most ships are stuck." NPR is cut-long's door. 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 U.S. illegally as children before 2007.
NPR's Humanibestial Reports. 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 stat is protected her from deportation. The Department of Homeland Security has appealed. It argues that DACA protections are not absolute in our subject to discretion. Humanibestial and Pernies.
"Time is running out for registering to vote in this year's primary elections in some states, states preparing to hold their primaries next month. NPR's Hansi Luang has more." Today is a last chance for eligible voters in Louisiana to register online in time to
“cast ballots in the states May 16th primary, and Monday is Nebraska's deadline for registering”
online or by mail, though in-person voter registration doesn't end until May 1st. In Oregon, you can still register online by mail or in-person through Tuesday, and there's still about a week left in Alabama and Pennsylvania to sign up to vote in those primaries. Elves will voters in Montana also have until May 4th to register by mail, and they can sign up in person through June 2nd.
If you're planning to use the U.S. Postal Service to mail your application, U.S.P.S. recommends sending it at least a week before your state's deadline, and to make sure it gets a postmarked date, U.S.P.S. says, "Stop by a post office and ask for a free, manual postmark at the counter on Z-Loang and PR News." This is NPR News in Washington.
The Trump administration plans to expand the number of ways the federal government can put a prisoner to death. It announced yesterday will add electrocution, gas association, and death by firing squad. This death sentence is carried out by state governments. The U.S. is one of a few Western nations that still employs the death penalty.
Researchers have found remnants of what they say is the largest and vertebrate ever-document, gargantuan octopuses. Our edanial has more. A team of scientists sliced 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, York, Mutalosa, is a paleontologist at Royal 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 Cretaceous, one that would have been filled with a variety of large and hungry predators. For NPR News, I'm Aride Annual.
President Trump is going out to dinner tonight to mingle with members of what he calls the fake news. He's to attend the annual dinner of the White House Correspondence Association. It's held a celebrate freedom of the press.
During Trump's second term, he has sued several media outlets and personally attacked
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