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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh.
What is President Trump's strategy regarding Iran's nuclear ambitions?
President Trump says he thinks he can convince Iran to abandon its nuclear ambitions and strike a deal possibly over the next month.
Talk to them as long as I like, and we'll see if we can get a deal with them. And if we can't, we'll have to go to phase two. Phase two will be very tough for them. I'm not looking for that.
Trump had previously threatened military action against Iran in the wake of the government's crackdown on protesters. Today, Trump hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who said he was skeptical a deal could be reached with Iran. The Trump administration is preparing to roll back key aspects of an Obama-era policy to limit human-caused climate change. The Environmental Protection Agency wants to rescind the endangerment finding through which the agency had been regulating climate pollution from vehicles, power plants, and the oil and gas industry. The EPA says that is illegal. President Trump's border czar Tom Homan says the surge in federal immigration agents in Minnesota is ending.
This morning, Homan said Trump acted on his advice to end the heightened presence, citing success on the ground. Just weeks into the new year, the Twin Cities were widely considered ground zero of the grassroots resistance to Trump's hardline immigration policies yesterday. and a national reckoning when immigration agents killed two U.S. citizens opposed to the operations. A bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security through the end of September is unable to clear the U.S. Senate. Lawmakers voted down the legislation today, 52 to 47. Congressional Democrats are trading proposals with their GOP colleagues and with the White House on how immigration laws enforce nationwide. Swing voters in Arizona say they want to see immigration and customs enforcement reformed.
NPR observed two focus groups conducted by a research firm Engage Us with these voters who say they fear the agency is becoming too, quote, aggressive and out of control. NPR's Ashley Lopez has details.
Twelve of these 14 participants who supported Joe Biden in 2020 and then voted for Trump in 2024 said ICE has gone too far. Nine said they know someone who has changed their daily life out of concern for a possible interaction with ICE. Esmerida S., who participated on the condition that she'd be identified by her first name and last initial only, said she is among those people, even though she was born and raised in the U.S. We shouldn't be afraid to be walking in the street. We shouldn't be afraid to go to work. you know, thinking they've already come to my work. So yes, it's scary. A majority of participants said they supported a range of proposed reforms to the Department of Homeland Security.
Ashley Lopez, NPR News.
U.S. stocks are trading lower this hour, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 356 points, or roughly three-quarters of a percent. It's at 49,765. This is NPR. Secretary of St. Marco Rubio heads to Europe today for the annual security conference.
How is the Trump administration addressing climate change policies?
More from NPR's Michelle Kellerman.
Last year, Vice President Vance stunned the audience at the Munich Security Conference when he accused America's closest allies of allowing migration to imperil Western civilization. Secretary Rubio's speech is likely to be less contentious... though the theme of the conference is what diplomats are calling the period of wrecking ball politics. Rubio is also traveling to Slovakia and Hungary. The two European countries lean toward Russia and rely on Russian energy. The State Department says the Secretary of State will be talking with them about energy partnerships with the United States. Michelle Kellerman, NPR News, the State Department. U.S.
cross-country skier Jessie Diggins, competing with injured ribs, captured a bronze medal at the Winter Olympics. Steve Futterman reports from Milan.
In her fourth and final Olympics, Jessie Diggins fought through pain to win her fourth Olympic medal, a bronze, in the women's 10,000-meter cross-country event. It came just five days after she injured her ribs in a crash during the women's skiathlon.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:01–0:05
2
What is President Trump's strategy regarding Iran's nuclear ambitions?
0:05–3:06
3
How is the Trump administration addressing climate change policies?
3:06–4:31
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What are the implications of the recent changes in immigration enforcement?
4:31–4:39