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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Nora Rahm. The United States and Iran have held indirect talks in the country of Oman on Iran's nuclear program and plan to meet again.
NPR's Jane Araf reports. Iran insists that negotiations remain focused on its nuclear program, which it says is for peaceful purposes. International regulators say they have not seen evidence Iran is building a bomb. But the U.S. continues to accuse Iran of trying to build one. The Trump administration has made clear that what it really wants is regime change. In addition to a military buildup backing threats against Iran, it's using financial sanctions and currency manipulation. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Besant said this week that the U.S. engineered a freefall of the Iranian currency that sparked protests in Iran in December. At least 5,000 people were believed killed, most of them protesters. Jane Araf and Pure News, Amman.
A federal judge in Minneapolis says the Department of Homeland Security has until Thursday to show that immigration detainees have regular access to attorneys while they're in custody. Matt Sepik of Minnesota Public Radio has more.
A woman seeking asylum alleges immigration agents detained her and would not let her talk to a lawyer. She's since been freed, but her attorney says DHS continues to violate the rights of many others. A Justice Department lawyer says detainees get unlimited attorney phone calls, but she did not show evidence. Judge Nancy Brazel promised to rule Thursday if the two sides don't reach a deal.
Matt Sepik reporting. The U.S. Education Department is telling colleges to stop using student voting data in research. It says it's investigating researchers at Tufts University and the National Student Clearinghouse for allegedly sharing college students' data with third parties to influence elections. From member station GBH, Kirk Carrapeza reports.
In a statement, Education Secretary Linda McMahon says, quote, American colleges and universities should be focused on teaching, learning, and research, not influencing elections. Tufts declined to comment, but says it's received the department's letter and is reviewing it. Lynn Pasquarella is president of the American Association of Colleges and Universities. She says what's unusual here isn't government oversight.
We've come to expect that, but it's the idea that nonpartisan research on civic participation could be treated as suspect simply because it relates to voting.
Conservatives defending the investigation say the Biden administration funded voter outreach efforts run by explicitly left-wing groups. For NPR News, I'm Kurt Carapazza in Boston.
Security is heightened in Islamabad, Pakistan, after the bombing of a Shiite Muslim mosque yesterday. The bomb went off during Friday prayers and killed at least 31 people. This is NPR News. The man accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson is set to go on trial in June. NPR's Sarah Ventry reports this is three months before jury selection is set to begin in the federal case against Luigi Mangione.
The defense has said it's not reasonable to begin the state trial so soon, given that they're also preparing for a federal trial. Mangione's lawyer, Karen Agnifilo, called it a, quote, untenable situation and said that the defense would not be ready on June 8th, to which the judge replied, be ready. As he was being escorted out of the courtroom, 27-year-old Mangione told the judge, quote, it's the same trial twice. One plus one is two. Double jeopardy by any common sense definition. Concerns about the issue of double jeopardy have been raised by the defense, but so far both the state and federal cases are proceeding on parallel tracks. Mangione's next court appearance is scheduled for May, when the judge is expected to rule on whether key pieces of evidence are admissible in his state trial.
Sarah Ventry, NPR News, New York.
Today's the first full day of competition at the Winter Olympics in Italy. The team skate is being held. Team USA includes 21-year-old figure skater Ilya Malatin from Virginia.
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