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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. Funding for the Department of Homeland Security is set to expire tomorrow as lawmakers debate new restrictions on President Trump's immigration enforcement agenda. The White House and Democrats failed to reach a deal by the deadline, as NPR's Sam Greenglass explains.
We know that the White House produced a counteroffer Wednesday night. The White House is taking the lead on this with Democrats. But no one has really been willing to say what was in that offer. We do know that some of the Democrats demands are non starters for most Republicans, like requiring judicial warrants for many enforcement operations and banning officers from masking.
NPR's Sam Greenglass reporting, services like airport screening could be affected if the shutdown drags on for weeks. Ice enforcement operations will not be affected as they're already funded. President Trump says he's moving a second aircraft carrier into the Middle East as he presses Iran to make a deal over its nuclear program. Trump says, quote, in case we don't make a deal, we'll need it.
Days ago, Trump suggested another round of talks with Iran was at hand. That hasn't materialized. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin spoke at a Toyota dealership in Charlotte, North Carolina to announce the rollback of key greenhouse gas regulations. Zachary Turner from member station WFAE has more.
A 2009 EPA finding identified six greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide and methane, as public health threats and provided the foundation for the agency to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from several industries. Zeldin spoke two hours east of Asheville, which was devastated by Hurricane Helene in 2024, an event exacerbated by warmer-than-average ocean temperatures.
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Chapter 2: What are the latest updates on immigration enforcement and funding?
He said it was no longer his job to regulate planet warming emissions.
It is very important to us at the EPA to help them rebuild. But what I'm not going to do is grant myself new powers that are not authorized in federal statute to take actions that amount to trillions of dollars of new regulation.
For NPR News, I'm Zachary Turner in Charlotte.
The Trump administration filed a lawsuit against Harvard University accusing it of failing to comply with a federal investigation. NPR's Alyssa Nadwerny reports.
The new complaint filed by lawyers from the U.S. Justice Department in a federal court in Boston seeks documents related to the Ivy League's admissions process. Those documents, the government argues, will help demonstrate if Harvard is complying with a 2023 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that ruled race-conscious college admissions programs unconstitutional.
In the complaint, lawyers said that the United States was not accusing Harvard of any discriminatory conduct and was not seeking monetary damages or the cancellation of federal funding. Harvard did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Alyssa Nadworny, NPR News.
This is NPR News from Washington. Envoys from Russia and Ukraine are set to meet for a new round of U.S.-brokered talks in Geneva next week as both sides keep fighting each other. Earlier U.S.-led peace efforts in Abu Dhabi failed to settle issues like the future of occupied parts of Ukraine.
The Motion Picture Association of America is calling for the maker of a new Chinese AI video generation platform to stop infringing on intellectual property. NPR's Chloe Veltman reports it comes after a video of a fake fight between actors Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt went viral.
The Motion Picture Association issued a statement condemning TikTok parent company ByteDance, the maker of the just-launched AI platform SeedDance 2.0, for allowing users to create hyper-realistic videos featuring the likenesses of well-known actors and characters, including Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise.
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