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NPR's Greg Myrie reports this comes as the U.S.

and Iran are still discussing a possible nuclear deal.

Authorities in Northern California say that eight backcountry skiers died in an avalanche this week near Lake Tahoe.

One skier is still missing.

For Member Station KUNR, Maria Palma has more.

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The Pentagon says that a top U.S.

military leader is met with Venezuela's interim leader in Caracas.

The commander of U.S.

Southern Command, Marine General Francis Donovan, and other U.S.

officials spoke yesterday with Venezuela's acting president, Delcy Rodriguez.

The meeting comes after the U.S.

took Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro and his wife from Venezuela to New York last month.

The couple faces U.S.

drug trafficking charges.

Today at the Winter Olympics, it will be the gold medal game in women's ice hockey.

Steve Futterman reports the game comes down to old competitors, the U.S.

and Canada.

Meanwhile, the U.S.

men's Olympic ice hockey team needed overtime to defeat Sweden yesterday, 2-1.