Live from NPR news in Washington, I'm Louis Skiewone.
The deadline to establish peace talks between the U.S. and Iran expired today with no negotiations planned, and the status of the Strait of Hormuz still indisputed, and PR's Janeraf has more. The U.S. and Iran signed a memorandum of understanding in June that called for reaching a final agreement in 60 days.
There have been mediation attempts by other countries, but no U.S. Iranian negotiation since then. Iran says the U.S. isn't serious about negotiating. President Trump has threatened new sanctions against Iran over their restrictions on the Strait of Hormuz.
While the June agreement called for the U.S. to begin removing its naval blockade and
“Iran to allow transit through the key waterway within 30 days, neither of those have”
happened either. The ceasefire was broken in July with attacks by both the U.S. and Iran. Reneraf and PR news, Aman, much of Hawaii is still recovering from Lala. The storm brushed the islands as a hurricane over the weekend, before weakening to a tropical storm.
Bill Dorman with Hawaii Public Radio says the power is out for more than 100,000 customers. All public schools in the state of Hawaii are closed today, so we're government offices,
exceptions or emergency workers, and those working crucial services, and they have
a lot to do. Damage assessments are still coming in, the southern part of Hawaii Island was one of the hardest hit areas with half a dozen local bridges destroyed or heavily damaged. Rock slides, mud slides and flooding of saturated ground remain challenges across the islands.
Emergency crews are stored electricity to thousands, but for so many recovery is just beginning. For NPR News, I'm Bill Dorman in Honolulu. The Trump administration is pressing state and local law enforcement to partner more directly with ICE through a new program that empowers local police to enforce federal immigration laws and PR's Jacqueline Diaz reports.
Under the Trump administration, the 287G program has exploded. ICE has signed more than 2,300 contracts with local agencies across the country. Giving officers in those agencies various powers for immigration enforcement, like interrogating or arresting immigrants suspected of being in the U.S. illegally, not every department in the program sees immigration enforcement as a major priority.
In Florida, Walton County Sheriff Michael Adkinson says his office does some 287G work, but their approach is narrow, his office joined 287G last year. We're not doing immigration sweep, because quite frankly, we have day jobs here.
“We have other things that are critically important to the local people here that they expect”
to be done. But other agencies are participating in operations and making a lot of arrests. Jacqueline Diaz and PR News. Well, I'm treated the sour of the Dow is off 214 points that NASDAQ flat, this is NPR News. A new Broadway musical based on the 1999 film comedy 10 Things I Hate About You opens
a year from today, August 17th, 2027. Jeff London reports on this teenage retelling of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. Lena Dunham, creator of the hit HBO series Girls, is set to write the script with Playwright Jessica Huang. And singer-songwriter Carly Ray Jepson, who wrote the smash hit Call Me Maybe, is writing
the score with Ethan Gruska. The show will be directed in Korea, graphed by Christopher Wildin, who took on the same task for the popular show MJ. This is another Broadway show centered around teenagers, following the outsiders, the
lost boys, and stranger things the first shadow.
For NPR News, I'm Jeff London, in New York. Once a silly and official says it's possible, the mafia may have been involved in the theft of four paintings by Renaissance Master Antonella Domicina from the Akichina Regional Museum in Massina. The thefts occurred Saturday while the town was celebrating the annual Summer Ferragusto Festival.
The crime was discovered when tourists found two of the paintings apparently discarded by the thieves leaning against museum railings. Massina's counselor for culture, Enzo Caruso, speculated the paintings are too famous to sell on the black market and could be used for blackmail. I'm Louise Skivone and PR News, Washington.
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in Florida, Alaska and Wyoming, and abroad, the President's son-in-law Jared Kushner pursues a peace plan in Gaza.
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