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The Trump administration has announced plans to give $12 billion worth of one-time payments to farmers in the U.S.

It's meant to compensate them for losses incurred because of trade wars and tariffs.

Frank Morris with member station KCUR says money will be going primarily to farmers who grow crops such as corn and soybeans.

A federal judge says President Trump's executive order blocking new wind energy projects is unlawful.

As NPR's Giles Snyder reports, Trump signed the order on the first day of his second term in the White House.

President Trump says he will defer to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on whether to publicly release video of U.S.

military airstrikes on a suspected drug boat off Venezuela.

That was in September.

A second strike on survivors of the initial attack has come under scrutiny and has been the subject of at least one classified briefing on Capitol Hill.

Hegseth says the issue is still under review.

Trump originally told reporters the video would certainly be released.

A fire in a high-rise office building in Indonesia's capital has killed at least 17 people.

That's according to authorities in Jakarta, who say the flames broke out around midday local time on the first floor of the seven-story building.

They quickly spread.

The cause is under investigation.

This is NPR News from Washington.

The Attorney General of Honduras is seeking the arrest of the country's former president, Juan Orlando Hernandez, days after he was pardoned by President Trump.

Hernandez was released from a federal prison in the U.S.