Janine Herbst

A federal judge told the Trump administration it can't withhold billions of federal dollars for the New York-New Jersey Gateway Tunnel project while a legal challenge plays out.

As NPR's Tamara Keith reports, there's a bizarre naming rights dispute now wrapped up in the freeze.

The extremist group ISIS has taken responsibility for a suicide bombing that struck a mosque in the Pakistani capital, killing more than 30 people and wounding dozens of others.

NPR's Dia Hadid has more.

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Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with President Trump in Washington next week about the U.S.

talks with Iran.

Netanyahu's office says the prime minister wants the talks to include limiting Iran's ballistic missiles and ending Iran's support for armed proxies.

The U.S.

and Iran held indirect talks yesterday in Oman over Tehran's nuclear program.

Trump says more talks are planned for early next week, but concerns remain high about possible regional conflict.

Trump has repeatedly threatened to use force to compel Tehran to reach a deal on the nuclear program.

The biggest Olympic event tomorrow is the women's downhill race.

41-year-old Lindsey Vonn is expected to compete even though she tore her left ACL just over a week ago.

NPR's Becky Sullivan has more.

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The United States has given Ukraine and Russia a June deadline to reach an agreement to end Moscow's nearly four-year-old war.

That's according to Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky.

NPR's Eleanor Beardsley has more.