Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.
President Trump has canceled sending a delegation to a Pakistan for further peace talks
about Iran.
“Empires Cat Lawn Store reports from Beirut, that's after Iran's Foreign Minister left”
Pakistan earlier today, without meeting with U.S. officials. U.S. special envoy Steve Whitkoff and President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner were supposed to travel to his lumbabad. After Iranian officials made it clear, they only plan to meet with Pakistani officials, not with the U.S.
Iran has dismissed Trump's unilateral extension of the U.S. Iran ceasefire as "meaningless," saying the continued U.S. blockade on Iranian ports is in violation of that agreement. The U.S. is intercepting ships coming to or from Iran as Iran is maintaining military control of the Strait of Hormuz. Most ships in and around the Strait are not moving, and neither side appears to be budging.
Cat Lawn Store of Empire News, Beirut. The Justice Department says recipients of the deferred action for childhood arrivals, DACA program are not necessarily shielded from deportation.
“Empires Hemanna Bustio reports it's the latest move by the Trump administration to strip”
away protections for the half million people who were brought to the U.S. 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. He met a Bustio and Pernus.
Time's running out for registering to vote in this year's primary elections in some states.
As Empires Hanzi Lohong reports, these states are preparing to hold their primaries next month.
“Today is a last chance for eligible voters in Louisiana to register online in time to cast”
balance in the states May 16th, 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.
Elzbo 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 postmark date, U.S. P.S. says stop by a post office and ask for
a free, manual postmark at the counter on ZLWN and PR News. And you're listening to NPR News from Washington. Pope Leo is reiterating his opposition to the death penalty on the same day the U.S. approved firing squads as a federally permitted method of execution. In a pre-recorded video message for DePaul University in Chicago, marking the 15th anniversary
of Illinois's abolition of the death penalty, Leo said the church affirms that the dignity of a person isn't lost even after very serious crimes are committed. This comes amid a widening divide between President Trump and Catholic leaders. K. Pop's biggest group is coming to the United States this weekend, and here's Isabella Gomez Armiento reports VTS will kick off the North American leg of its worldwide tour in Tampa, Florida.
VTS's world tour spans more than 70 days, 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. With the band's comeback since the one on hiatus nearly four years ago, for mandatory military service in South Korea.
Last month, VTS released the long-awaited album Ariron, which debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart. The group Artern is a major milestone for its firment 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.
Isabella Gomez Armiento and PR news. And I'm Janine Herbst, and you're listening to NPR News from 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?
