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"Live from NPR news, I'm Dan Roman, a running-in-state mediaist as Pakistan's...

arrived in Tehran amid mediation talks with the U.S. and Iran. NPR's Dia Hadid reports."

Pakistani media and Iranian-backed Erna reported that field-martial arsemaner is scheduled

to meet with high-ranking officials.

It comes after the Pakistani Interior Minister, Marseignakvi, made his second visit to Iran

in one week. Pakistan earlier hosted both sides for Marathon talks on April 11 and 12, but the U.S. team, led by Vice President JD Vance, said they had failed. The Trump administration wants Iran to store its enriched uranium abroad and pours its nuclear program.

Iran is demanding a permanent ceasefire that lifts U.S. sanctions and gives it more control of the spread of her moors. Dia Hadid and Pian use, New Delhi." The Trump administration is tightening the rules to apply for a green card. In the past, visa holders have been able to file for an adjustment of status in the U.S. and, in

many cases, stay while it was pending.

The memo reiterates that visa holders looking to get a green card, which is a permanent

residency, must apply from their home countries. People like international students for skilled workers with H1B visas. In the memo, United States citizenship and immigration services, or USCIS, said the pathway to permanent residency has been abused for decades, and that people who are denied or in waiting sometimes stay illegally.

Immigration advocates say it would place people fleeing dangerous circumstances in vulnerable positions, in which they'd have to return to that danger.

That's the sound of the powerful Starship rocket, as it conducted a test flight on Friday,

launching from its launch pad in South Texas. The redesigned mega rocket is one that NASA is counting on to eventually land astronauts on the moon. Later this decade, it is the 12th test flight of the rocket. The spacecraft reached its destination in the Indian Ocean, despite some engine problems

along the way, NASA Administrator Jerick Isaacman said the space agency is now one step closer

to putting Americans back on the moon. It estimated 40,000 people in southern California are under an evacuation order. This is a authorities try to figure out how to prevent the explosion of a storage tank that is leaking hazardous chemicals. Prior officials in Garden Grove and Orange County said the tank overheated Thursday and began

venting vapors into the atmosphere at a aerospace plastic facility. Official stabilized the tank on Friday. This is NPR News. Later this year, immigration and customs enforcement revived a contract with a company known for making spyware that can remotely hack into telephones.

It raced concerns among privacy and civil liberties advocates, but as NPR's Jude Joppy Block reports, the Department of Homeland Security now says, "Ice has no relationship with the Israeli-founded company." Paragon Solutions makes a spyware tool that can remotely hack into devices without the target clicking a link.

Ice's $2 million contract with the company for an unspecified product was first signed

in 2024, but the Biden administration swiftly put the contract on hold. The Trump administration revived it last year, but the contract was closed out in January according to a notice on a procurement website. DHS told NPR in a statement that ICE has no new contract with Paragon Solutions and no relationship with the company or the company that acquired it.

DHS declined to clarify whether ICE still has access to Paragon developed tools, such as through a third party. Jude Joppy Block and Pair News. Americans questioned by the University of Michigan, and it's monthly consumer confidence survey.

Say they're becoming more concerned about the state of the economy because of the war against Iran, inflation, and increasing fuel prices. The survey released Friday showed consumer confidence at its lowest-level dating back nearly 75 years to 1952. May's number was the third consecutive month that consumer sentiment had declined.

Most tweet will be closed Monday for the Memorial Day observance, but all three indexes were up on Friday. This is NPR News. Support for In. Each story you hear on planet money starts with a question.

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