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Delta Airlines says 18 people were injured in yesterday's plane crash at Toronto's Pearson International Airport. The plane flipped over as the commuter flight was arriving from Minneapolis in windy weather. NPR's Jackie Northam says there were 80 people aboard.
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Flights have since resumed at Pearson International. The death toll from flooding in Kentucky has risen to at least 12 as search and rescue efforts continue in areas of the state. This is NPR News from Washington. Cold air continues to expand over more states in the central U.S. The National Weather Service has extended extreme cold warnings into much of Oklahoma and Texas.
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They stretch northward into Montana, the Dakotas, Minnesota and Wisconsin. Forecasters are warning of life-threatening Arctic cold in northern areas. It's currently 33 degrees below zero in Bismarck, North Dakota. It's minus 11 in Minneapolis. The Vatican says Pope Francis remains hospitalized in Rome with what's described as a complex infection in his respiratory system.
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He was admitted last week. The pope is 88 years old. Mexican singer Paquita Ladel Barrio has died at the age of 77. As NPR's Isabella Gomez Sarmiento reports, the singer was known as a voice of heartbreak and rage.
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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dave Mattingly. At this hour, a delegation from Moscow led by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is meeting with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and other top U.S. officials in Saudi Arabia. They're said to be discussing negotiations to end Russia's war in Ukraine. Moscow's full-scale invasion began three years ago this month.
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Alongside Rubio are President Trump's National Security Advisor Mike Waltz and the president's envoy, Steve Witkoff. The talks followed Trump's 90-minute phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin last week. Trump has since said he believes Putin wants to end the fighting in Ukraine. Officials from Kiev are not part of the talks in Riyadh. Thousands of people across the U.S.
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marked President's Day by protesting President Trump and his Doge team, led by billionaire Elon Musk. As NPR's Shandalise Duster reports, one of the demonstrations against Trump's government downsizing efforts took place in the nation's capital.
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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dave Mattingly. President Trump has arrived in Saudi Arabia on the first leg of his trip to the Middle East. The president was greeted at the airport in Riyadh by the Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman, at an arrival ceremony. The BBC's Mike Thompson has more on Trump's first extended foreign trip of his second term in the White House.
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He was released to the Red Cross and then flown by helicopter to a hospital in Tel Aviv to be evaluated. Hamas says it released Alexander as a goodwill gesture to the Trump administration. Dozens of white South Africans have arrived in the U.S. The Trump administration welcomed them as refugees at Washington Dulles International Airport yesterday.
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NPR's Michelle Kellerman says that's despite the administration pausing all refugee arrivals from war zones around the world.
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This is NPR News. Court filings show the Corporation for Public Broadcasting rejected an effort by President Trump's Department of Government Efficiency to assign a Doge team to the CPB. NPR's Stephen Fowler has more.
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The agreement between the U.S. and China to pause steep tariffs on each other's products for 90 days sent stocks on Wall Street sharply higher yesterday. The Dow added 1,160 points, or more than 2.8 percent. The S&P gained more than 3.25 percent. The Nasdaq rose 779 points, or more than 4.3 percent. Stocks in Asia closed higher today. Wall Street futures are on the downside this morning.
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Japanese automaker Nissan says it plans to eliminate about 20,000 employees or roughly 15 percent of its global workforce, citing slowing sales. I'm Dave Mattingly, NPR News in Washington.
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That's the BBC's Mike Thompson. The president will also visit Qatar and Saudi Arabia on his Mideast trip. Separately, President Trump says he's open to the idea of traveling to Turkey on Thursday to attend potential peace talks between Ukraine and Russia. Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, says he plans to make the trip.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has not committed to the direct talks. Idan Alexander has been reunited with his family in Israel after being released by Hamas. The 21-year-old American-Israeli was released by the militants yesterday after being held captive for more than 19 months. The Israeli soldier was among those taken when Hamas attacked southern Israel in 2023.
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The House has given tentative approval to a plan for the federal government to sell thousands of acres of public lands in Utah and Nevada. As NPR's Kirk Sigler reports, the provision was added back into a budget bill, sparking criticism from Democratic lawmakers.
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The Federal Reserve is leaving interest rates unchanged. The Fed wrapped up its latest policy meeting yesterday by keeping its key rates steady. Fed Chair Jerome Powell noted the risks of inflation and unemployment moving higher have gone up. The Fed has kept rates unchanged for three consecutive meetings despite pressure from President Trump to lower them. This is NPR News.
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Treasury Secretary Scott Besant is among officials from the Trump administration preparing for high-level talks with a delegation from China. They're slated to meet this weekend in Geneva, Switzerland. Benson has described the talks as a precursor to potential negotiations over trade and tariffs. Toyota is reporting record sales for the fiscal year that ended in March.
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Still, its latest quarterly earnings were down from the same period a year ago. The Japanese automaker says it remains concerned about the effects of President Trump's sweeping tariffs on future earnings. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was in Illinois yesterday where she criticized the governor and the state's sanctuary policies.
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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dave Mattingly. Roman Catholic cardinals meeting at the Sistine Chapel are still deciding on the next pope. Black smoke rose from the chapel's chimney yesterday, indicating an inconclusive first vote on the successor to Pope Francis. White smoke would indicate a pope has been chosen.
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Mawa Iqbal with member station WBEZ has more from Springfield.
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Hockey fans in Utah have spoken. After multiple rounds of voting by fans, the state's NHL team has its permanent name, the Utah Mammoth. I'm Dave Mattingly, NPR News in Washington.
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Pakistan's army says India launched a drone attack overnight targeting a military site near Lahore. A spokesman says several soldiers were wounded. This comes a day after a missile attack by India killed more than two dozen people, something Pakistan's prime minister described as an act of war. North Korea has launched several short-range ballistic missiles into the sea.
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It marks Pyongyang's first missile launch in nearly two months. As NPR's Anthony Kuhn reports from Seoul, North Korea has been ramping up production of arms, some of which have been exported to Russia for use in Ukraine.
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Researchers at Columbia University and Virginia Tech measured the height of the land in the 28 most populous U.S. cities. They found that about 20 percent of the land area sank between 2015 and 2021. More than 30 million people live in areas affected by sinking land. and Houston is the fastest-sinking major city in the country, they found. The study was published in the journal Nature Cities.
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Land sinks for many reasons, some of them natural, but extracting groundwater for agriculture, drinking, and manufacturing is the main driver. Sinking land can lead to more flooding in urban areas, particularly in coastal neighborhoods where sea levels are also rising because of climate change. Rebecca Herscher, NPR News. Wall Street futures are up sharply this morning.
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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dave Mattingly. Pope Leo XIV is celebrating his first Mass following yesterday's historic election. Cardinal Robert Prevost is the first American to lead the Catholic Church as Pope. NPR's Sylvia Paglioli has more from Rome.
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President Trump is appointing Fox News host and former judge and prosecutor Jeanine Pirro to serve as interim U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C. As NPR's Elena Moore reports, the president announced the move after pulling the nomination of his first choice for the job, Ed Martin.
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Democratic lawmakers are denouncing President Trump's decision to fire the Librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden. She was the first woman and first African American to hold that job. This is NPR News. A group of Democratic voters in Wisconsin is asking the state Supreme Court to declare the state's current congressional maps to be unconstitutional.
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As Mayan Silver with member station WUWM reports from Milwaukee, a similar lawsuit was rejected last year.
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Prosecutors in Wisconsin are filing charges against the father of a teenage girl who carried out last year's deadly shooting at the Abundant Life Christian School in Madison. A student and a teacher at the school were killed in the attack in a study hall. Six others were injured.
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Jeffrey Rupp now faces two counts of intentionally giving a dangerous weapon to a person under the age of 18, causing death and contributing to the delinquency of a child. The The charges are felonies. Prosecutors say the father allowed his daughter access to semi-automatic pistols. I'm Dave Mattingly, NPR News in Washington.
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That's NPR's Sylvia Paglioli. Catholics in the Chicago area are celebrating Pope Leo XIV as a native of the Windy City. Michael Puente with Member Station WBEZ reports.