Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corva Coleman. The Department of Homeland Security is on track to shut down at the end of today. As NPR's Barbara Sprunch reports, the Senate failed to advance a bill to provide further funding for the agency and there's no deal in sight.
Chapter 2: What is the status of the Department of Homeland Security funding?
Democrats say they'll only vote to fund DHS if there are significant changes to the department. specifically Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, after two U.S. citizens were fatally shot by officers in Minneapolis. But this shutdown wouldn't mean a shutdown of ICE itself. That agency received over $70 billion in separate funding from Congress last summer.
Lawmakers in both the Senate and House are expected to be out of town next week, but they'll be on notice to return to D.C. if there's a deal. Barbara Sprint, NPR News, Washington.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is in Germany for the Munich Security Conference. His remarks will be closely watched. Vice President J.D. Vance went last year and delivered an aggressive speech to European allies. He blamed them for letting immigrants ruin Western civilization. Before leaving Washington, Rubio seemed to strike a moderate tone.
The world is changing very fast right in front of us. The old world is gone, frankly, the world I grew up in. And we live in a new era in geopolitics, and it's going to require all of us to sort of reexamine what that looks like and what our role is going to be. And... We've had many of these conversations in private with many of our allies, and they are our allies.
And we need to continue to have those conversations. And I think Saturday, hopefully, and the meetings we'll have there will move us in that direction.
The Secretary of State will also visit Slovakia and Hungary on his trip. Both European Union countries lean toward Russia and depend on Russian energy. Meanwhile, Russia has not ceased its drone and missile attacks on Ukraine's cities and energy infrastructure. That's even as Russia claims to want to end the war.
And PRS Eleanor Beardsley reports, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says Moscow has refused to commit to another round of U.S.-led peace talks.
Overnight Thursday, Russia launched 24 Iskander ballistic missiles, one guided air missile, and 219 drones, say Ukrainian authorities. NPR was able to witness it. Opposition member of parliament Ina Sovsun says Russian President Vladimir Putin is just playing for time. He has no real plan to stop this war.
And he basically tricked Trump into a situation where Trump can claim that he can continue the negotiations, yet at the same time as we're seeing nothing real came out of those talks so far. Russia has not budged from its maximalist demands, she says, and Putin refuses to meet with Zelensky because it would be all too obvious who is the impediment to peace. Eleanor Beardsley, NPR News, Kiev.
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Chapter 3: What remarks did Secretary of State Marco Rubio make at the Munich Security Conference?
The crew is headed for the International Space Station. Several horror movies are opening today at theaters across the country on this Friday the 13th, and Pierre's Netta Ulaby has more.
This is a dead time of year in movie theaters, and that's good for horror movie fans. Can you hear something? That's from a new horror movie called Undertone, about a haunted podcast. It opens not today, but in March, which also has a Friday the 13th. Yep, two in a row. Stephen follows as a film data analyst. He says the date does not make a real difference financially.
So the Friday the 13th thing is cute and it's fun and it might help provide a spine to the marketing, but it's not going to radically transform the numbers.
To make a killing at the box office, he says, a horror movie has to slay. Netta Ulibi, NPR News. You're listening to NPR.