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President Trump says he's not satisfied with Iran's latest proposal to end the war and PR's a Franco-Ordonia's reports.
“President Trump says Iran wants to make a deal and that negotiations are continuing,”
but that it's difficult to make progress because of Iran's disjoined leadership. He says his team is trying to negotiate with two to four different groups of Iranian leaders. "And it puts us in a bad position. One group wants to make a certain deal. The other group wants to make a certain deal." Speaking outside the White House on his way to Florida, Trump says negotiations continue by phone and that they've made strides during these talks, but he also said he wasn't sure if the Iranians would ever get to where they needed to be.
Franco-Ordonia's, in PR News, the White House. A federal appeals court has issued a ruling restricting telemedicine access to the abortion-pil Mithapristone nationally. The decision rolls back Biden-Ara rules that allowed the pill to be prescribed online or over the phone and then mailed. Doctors argue an in-person prescription is medically unnecessary and that the policy is a way for abortion opponents to make it harder to access the procedure. This week, the Supreme Court ruled that Louisiana's voting map is unconstitutional.
Legal experts expect that will diminish minority representation. Leslie Burrell McLemore is an emeritus professor at Jackson State University in Mississippi. Six decades ago, he was a student leader of civil rights protests that helped bring about this 1965 voting rights act. "Your course progress has been made throughout the country. The race is in the field very alive and well as one of my college rule made to be safe in the American South now, white some white to a smile at your face and step in the back.
So it is not as blatant as it was when I was growing up in Mississippi, but clearly we have a problem in this country." Leaders in several Republican-led states are now considering redrawing their congressional maps after the ruling.
The house has passed a $390 billion farm bill that would set agriculture and nutrition assistance policy through 2031, though it faces headwinds in the Senate.
Frank Morris of the member station KCU are reports. "The House didn't make many changes to the existing farm policy. It didn't, for instance, expand ethanol use as corn farmers wanted. Still, farmers are glad to see progress. Farm bills are supposed to last five years. It's been eight since Congress passed the last one.
But Seth Meyer, former USDA Chief Economist, now the University of Missouri, says the Senate isn't
“going to sign off on the House Bill. "I think that there are several deals that have to be made on the”
more controversial provisions. And so therefore I think it remains uncertain."
Like the $187 billion cut to nutrition assistance programs that Congress passed last year.
Senate Democrats want to restore at least part of this cut before signing up on farm subsidies. "Bringed Pyrenees on Frank Morris in Kansas City." This is NPR News. Facebook, parent company Meta, says it might shut down social media services in New Mexico. It comes in response to a push by state prosecutors for fundamental changes to platforms to protect the mental health and safety of children.
A trial begins next week on allegations that Meta poses a public nuisance. Pope Leo has appointed a new bishop of West Virginia. He's the first Salvadoran bishop in the country and migrated to the US in 1990 without legal status. Piers, a Sarah Ventry, has more. Now an American citizen, Bishop of Elio Manjiva, Ayala, came to the US as an asylum seeker. And his resume is unlike many others. In addition to his master's in theology and his
work as the auxiliary bishop of Washington, he also did janitorial work, construction, and painting. And he says that helped me to understand labor, hard labor, to learn, to work hard." Manjiva has openly criticized the Trump administration's immigration policies and demonstrated against nasty deportations, emphasizing the need to uphold human dignity. Last fall, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops issued a statement opposing the administration's
immigration tactics, including what they called the "villification of immigrants." Sarah Ventry and Piers News. A young southern sea otter named Ray has become a surrogate mother to an orphaned pup sunny at the aquarium of the Pacific and Long Beach California. A program pair's maternal age female otters with motherless pups to help them survive. Ray was once stranded
“herself and now she's teaching sunny essential skills, though they'll never return to the wild.”
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