"Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Nora Rom.
the U.S. delegation's trip to Islamabad for talks with Iran this weekend. NPR's
Deepa Shiveram has more."
“Trump says there was too much time wasted on traveling for in-person talks. On the way back”
to Washington, Trump told reporters in Palm Beach, Florida that Iranians could continue negotiations over the phone. We're not doing it that way. We'll do it when they want they can call me. He also claimed that there's infighting among Iranian leadership and confusion over who's in charge. Trump extended the ceasefire with Iran earlier this week, though it's not clear
when it will lift. The White House has just said that's up to the president. Trump says that after he canceled the travel to Pakistan, Iran came back with a better deal. He said Iran offered a lot, but not enough. Deepa Shiveram and PR News Ukrainian officials say Russia attacked overnight in the central city of Nipro using dozens of missiles and hundreds of drones. I've already said at least five people were killed
“and PR's political at the end of the reports.”
President Vladimir Zelensky wrote on social media that every satrashana tax should remind Ukrainians allies they need to strengthen Ukrainian air defenses, so the country can defend
itself from aerial strikes. Russian forces also targeted critical facilities in Ukrainian
southern and eastern regions. Arizona's attorney general filed a federal lawsuit yesterday to stop the department of Homeland Security from turning a warehouse in a phoenix suburb into a detention facility. Cameron Sanchez of Member Station KJZZ reports. Attorney General Chris Mays, a Democrat, says the location of the facility in the city
of surprise is inappropriate for housing human beings, and says DHS didn't submit necessary environmental reviews. The warehouse is across the street from a hazardous chemical storage facility. Mays says the government is obligated by its own laws to conduct a safety analysis. In their rush to expand detention capacity across the country and implement a deportation system that operates, quote, like Amazon Prime, but with human beings, DHS and ICE have
run roughshod over federal law. In her lawsuit, Mays seeks to permanently bar DHS from using the warehouse as a detention center. Our news, I'm Cameron Sanchez and Phoenix. 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. On a inauguration day last year, Trump had declared the situation at the southern border constituted an invasion of America. 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 the Justice Department will seek further review.
The White House's correspondence dinner will not be hosted by a comedian as in the years past. Instead, a mentalist owes permanent will appear to read the minds of those in the room, including President Trump, NPR's racial treatment reports. Roman Rose to fame on America's Got Talent in 2015. He often goes viral on social media, appearing to guess the ATM pin codes and innermost thoughts of various celebrities. His audience
on Saturday as a room full of political journalists, government officials and Trump, who
plans to attend the correspondence dinner for the first time as president.
Permanent told NPR his job is to bring people together.
“You're going to leave the room in a better mood than you walked in, and I think as a country,”
we need that at times. In such a divisive political moment, that may take a magician's touch. Rachel Treesman and PR News. The New York City hot sauce exposes underway this weekend. There are free samples and competitions, including the chicken wings of death, and the spicy pizza of doom challenges. The website says, "Enter if you dare and we dare you to enter. I'm Norrom 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. Is it an honest pursuit of justice or just the latest example of the Trump DOJ targeting the president's political opponents?
