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The international standard Brent crude is down nearly 4% to around $96 per barrel.

And the financial markets in Asia advanced today after President Trump spoke of negotiations with Iran.

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Paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division are preparing to deploy to the Middle East, as could signal an escalation in possible use of ground troops in the war with Iran, as NPR's Quill Lawrence reports.

Word of the deployment follows President Trump's remarks in the Oval Office Tuesday that the U.S.

is in talks with Iran to end the fighting.

But Iran is again denying any negotiations in a pre-recorded video on state television Wednesday.

An Iranian military spokesman said the U.S.

is negotiating with itself.

A bid reports the Trump administration has sent Iran a 15-point ceasefire plan through intermediaries.

ICE is leasing and buying warehouses across the country to retrofit them into immigrant detention centers.

But there's widespread outcry as the agency pushes forward without consulting local officials.

Here's NPR's Anusha Mathur reporting.

National Transportation Safety Board says the fire truck involved in Sunday night's collision with an Air Canada jet landing at the Gordia Airport was not equipped with the technology showing its location.

In TSP Chair Jennifer Homendy.

Comedy also said the airport's ground surveillance system did not generate an alert of vehicles in the runway, and she expressed longstanding NTSB concerns about controller staffing.

The crash killed two Air Canada pilots.

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Minnesota is suing the Trump administration for access to evidence that state officials say is key to an independent investigation into three shootings by federal officers, including the killings of Renee Good and Alex Preti.