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Russian President Vladimir Putin held a meeting today at the Kremlin with U.S.
“negotiators, Steve Whitkoff, and President Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, this”
and an effort to revive the stalled Russian Ukraine negotiations to end the war. And PR's Charles Maynes in Moscow reports U.S. officials are concerned the four and a half year long war could escalate. After re-engagement on Ukraine now comes as some things are changing with Russia's war. Keep in mind, CIA director John Ratcliffe was recently in Moscow for a brief visit with
his Russian counterparts in the intelligence community. Presumably Ukraine was part of those discussions, so it could be there's a new diplomatic window here, but the prevailing view is that the U.S. is concerned this conflict is about to escalate even further than it already has. Both Russia and Ukraine agreed to temporarily halt the fighting while the talks are taking
place, Whitkoff and Kushner are scheduled to visit Ukraine's capital Kiev Sunday. Some people who were scheduled to appear at immigration courts in Maryland in Virginia
“have instead been rescheduled to other buildings.”
One is in Washington, D.C., the other is in Falls Church, Virginia. NPR's Hemena Booster reports exclusively neither is listed as an immigration court. Neither of these buildings currently has an immigration court that is set up for in-person hearings. The D.C. location has no listed affiliation with the Justice Department, which oversees immigration courts.
Immigrants were notified about the change in location within days of newly scheduled appointments, or did not receive notifications at all in at least two cases identified by NPR. Attorney's worn this latest step of scheduling hearings at previously unfamiliar locations can add to the confusion and lack of transparency in an already complicated immigration court system.
The Justice Department did not respond to questions about the use of these two buildings. Hemena Booster and Piano use Washington.
“The Trump administration's plan to begin excavation work to begin a proposed arch in Washington”
D.C. is facing a legal challenge. NPR's racial treatment reports a federal judge has stepped in. In a late night motion, the judge ordered the administration to provide 48 hours notice before doing anything other than information gathering at the traffic circle where it wants to build its 250-foot arch.
The three-veent non-veterans and architectural historian, who sued over the arch earlier this year, had asked for a restraining order. After interior secretary Doug Bergham announced that excavation work would begin within two weeks, even though the structure hasn't gotten final federal approval. The Trump administration then clarified in a legal filing that it was talking about archiological
surveys, not construction. Rachel Treesman and PR News. U.S. military forces today hit three Iranian oil tankers near Carr Island. This is NPR. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is restarting an environmental project on the displaying's
river.
Southwest of Chicago that officials say is critical to the Great Lakes.
The Brandon Road Interbasin Project is designed to stop invasive carp from getting into Lake Michigan, in July officials from Illinois and Michigan warned that the fish were alarmingly close to Lake Michigan. The project had been stepped temporarily by the White House, but this week, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmar called the White House spoke with President Trump and work on the project
has been ordered restarted. Spider-Man has swung past another box office milestone this weekend. Here's NPR's Bob Mandelo. When Supergirl flopped earlier this summer, there was much talk about audiences suffering superhero fatigue.
Apparently, they were just waiting for the right Superhero.
Spider-Man brand new day passed $900 million in North American ticket sales on Friday.
Only one movie has ever made more money at the American box office. Star Wars The Force Awakens, which topped out at 936 million back in 2015. Friday is expected to swing past that all-time domestic record in the next two weeks. On this Labor Day weekend, Triple A says the price of unlettered regular gasoline is now 414 a gallon, 6 cents more expensive than a week ago.
How do products end up on big box shelves? We go inside the minds of the people who decide what goes on store shelves.
