Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.
The White House says Vice President Vance is delaying a trip to Switzerland to lead a new
“round of negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program, citing difficult logistics.”
No further information was available. U.S. Central Command has lifted a maritime blockade on Iranian ports, and Pierce Quillore and its reports its a concession made in the ceasefire agreement between the U.S. and Iran. Central Command announced on social media that U.S. forces have lifted the ban on ships entering and exiting Iranian ports and coastal areas, in accordance with the President's direction,
and that American forces are no longer interdicting vessels off Iran's coast. Iran, for its part, has committed to letting oil tankers move safely through the state of Hormuz, where 20% of the world's oil transits. Also moving through will be Iranian oil exports now free of sanctions under the deal. Central Command says the U.S. Navy remains in the area to make sure that the terms
of the ceasefire are obeyed. The two countries have started counting the 60-day deadline for outstanding issues to be resolved, including the disposition of Iran's nuclear program, Quillore and St. PR News. Federal immigration officers often use facial recognition to identify people they detain as impures Meg Anderson reports a newly revealed document from the Department of Homeland
Security details plans to give local police that same kind of technology. The document describes a mobile app designed for local police deputized by ICE to enforce immigration law. With the app, police can scan people's faces and compare them to government records. Claire Garvey is with the pleasing project at New York University and has concerns about
how local police, alongside federal authorities, are surveilling the public. Can they walk around taking photos of whoever as sort of a drag-net way to attempt to identify
“individuals who might be in the country and lawfully?”
In a statement, DHS told NPR that its technology tools respect people's privacy interests. Meg Anderson and Pair News. In Chicago today. "I found my purpose and I fortified my faith here and I found my community here. My friendships that would last the lifetime.
I found a girl from the South Side who has been my greatest blessing." That's President Obama at a star-studded event to dedicate the new Obama Presidential Center. That included Stevie Wonder John Legend, Jennifer Hudson and others, celebrities for former presidents, first ladies and dignitaries were also on hand.
Former President Obama celebrated his long-awaited $850 million campus that officially
opens to the public tomorrow, paying tribute to the Windy City. He also defended democratic norms including a belief in the peaceful transfer of power after people have spoken in a fair and free election.
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This Supreme Court today ruled that a long-standing federal ban on guns for people who use illegal drugs is unconstitutional. This after a gun owner in Texas who used marijuana several times a week, the ruling sets new limits on federal prosecution of gun owners who are targeted for having a history of drug use, the Justice Department says it's prosecutes around 300 cases a year where
the violation of drug use or ban is the leading charge. The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C. has turned a deep, lurid green
with algae, just days after the Trump administration completed a $14 million renovation promising
clear blue water. And here's Windsor Johnston reports, the Bloom comes as events marking America's 250th anniversary are set to get underway on the national mall. Experts say algae has long been a problem of Washington's iconic reflecting pool, frustrating officials across multiple administrations.
Chris Gopler is a marine scientist at Stony Brook University. And that recycling pool is kind of the ideal environment for the growth and overgrowth of algae. algae love it when it's warm, they love it when there's lots of nutrients and they love it when they're not being flushed out of an environment.
Gopler says algae returned after a major reconstruction project in 2012 and is likely to remain a challenge without continuous water flow or more aggressive filtration. The Trump administration says everything is operating normally and describes the algae as part of a normal startup process following the renovation, Windsor Johnston and PR News, Washington. And I'm Janine Herbst and PR News from Washington.
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