Live from NPR News in Washington, on Corva Coleman, Pakistan's interior minis...
to try to salvage talks between the US and Iran.
“The diplomacy comes after President Trump said he paused a decision to resume attacks against”
Iran to give more time for negotiation. And beer's Dia Hadid reports from Mumbai.
This is Pakistani interior minister, Martin Nuckviz, second visit to the Capitol this week
to meet with senior officials. Iranian state-backed media reports this time, his met with Iran's foreign minister, Abbas Al-Aqshi, another state-backed media outlet reported that Nuckviz was passing on a US proposal to Iranians. The outlet says Iran is reviewing the text.
Even as Pakistan's interior minister tries to coax Iran, writers has reported the supreme leader has insisted that it's enriched uranium must-day in the country. Iranians officials believe that if the material is sent abroad, it will be more vulnerable to attacks. Before the will began, officials that had signaled they were willing to ship out half of
its stockpile of uranium.
Dia Hadid and Pianus, Mumbai.
“The Justice Department has indicted a former federal prosecutor.”
This is on charges of allegedly sending a copy of former Special Counsel Jack Smith's report on the investigation into President Trump's classified documents case. And beer's Jacqueline Diaz has more. Prosecutors alleged that Carmen Mercedes Lineberger emailed a copy of the report to her personal email in January 2025 and tried to hide the fact that she was doing this.
The grand jury indictment says she has downloaded the documents and emailed them a titles like "ChocolateTakeRecipe.PDF." The indictment doesn't say what Lineberger planned to do with the documents. At the time, a federal judge had ordered the report sealed. Large island canon has since ordered the report permanently sealed.
Lineberger served as the Managing Assistant U.S. Attorney in Fort Pierce, Florida. She pleaded not guilty to forefell any charges, including theft of government property. Jacqueline Diaz and Pianus. The U.S. has deported nine migrants to Sierra Leone and beer's dual bride has more from Lagos, Nigeria.
“If you were than half of the promised 24 deportees are out of Wednesday, U.S. pays immigration”
lawyers say some of the deportations were blocked. The deportees are expected to eventually be sent to their home countries, but it's unclear if they will be received. Non-ARP from Sierra Leone and local officials who received them say many were traumatized after being chained for months during their detention in the U.S.
At least eight other African countries have signed deals with the Trump administration to receive non-sities in deportees. Many of these countries have repressive governments and have been accused of holding deportees in poor conditions and without access to legal counsel, Joe Bride and Pianus Legos. On Wall Street the Dow is down 75 points.
You're listening to NPR. The house is expected to take up the war power's resolution today that would require President Trump to withdraw from the war in Iran. The resolution passed the Senate yesterday with support from four Republicans if passed, President Trump is expected to veto it.
The retail chain "clairs" which sells jewelry and accessories is trying to expand at thousands of new locations.
This comes less than a year after the company emerged from its second bankruptcy, and appears
Alina Seljuk explains. Clairs went bankrupt last August under the weight of an unwieldy loan, plus mounting terror costs for all of its Chinese-made jewelry, clothes, and verses. The chain closed hundreds of stores, but it avoided total liquidation as it was bought out of bankruptcy by Ames Watson, an investment firm that owns a few other mall chains.
The biggest one is "lids". Now Clairs has signed a brand licensing deal that might see its jewelry pop up in more than 7,000 retail spots around the US, including Walmart and CBS. It's part of a plan which also includes updating stores and working with the Young Social Media Influencers, trying to refresh Clairs' brand and draw new generations of shoppers,
Alina Seljuk and PR News. A federal judge's rule defense attorneys for the man accused of starting the deadly palisades fire in the Los Angeles area cannot use information suggesting the fire department was negligent. The lawyers wanted to use information suggesting the LA fire department left a blaze smoldering before the Big Fire broke out on New Year's Day in 2025 that fire killed 12 people.
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