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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Europe and the U.S. belong together, but he says both sides have made mistakes that need to be fixed. He made the comments at the Munich Security Conference, as NPR's Michelle Kellerman reports.
Rubio criticized Europeans for what he called a climate cult and for allowing mass migration, which he says threatens Western culture. But he says the U.S. and Europe should work together, not to rationalize a broken system, but to fix it. For we in America have no interest in being polite and orderly caretakers of the West's managed decline.
But he says the Trump administration doesn't want to separate from Europe, rather revitalize an old friendship. Responding to that, conference organizer Wolfgang Ischinger says some in the room breathed a sigh of relief. There was no talk about taking over Greenland or other transatlantic irritants. Michelle Kellerman, NPR News, Munich.
Another shutdown for part of the federal government is underway after lawmakers couldn't agree on how to rein in the Department of Homeland Security's immigration forces. This after two U.S. citizens were shot and killed by ICE agents in Minneapolis. Funding ran out at midnight for parts of the agency, but not immigration. NPR's Ron Elving has more.
Chapter 3: What did Secretary of State Marco Rubio say about U.S.-Europe relations?
There's plenty of money on hand for ICE to continue operations, even as other parts of the Department of Homeland Security have to shut down or cut back. That's because ICE got a huge war chest from the last big funding bill, the one Trump called the One Big Beautiful Bill. This may be one reason he liked it so much.
So Democrats know this won't keep ICE from operating, but they hope it will call attention to the relationship between ICE and DHS and put more heat on the administration of the overall agency.
NPR's Ron Elving reporting. One non-immigration group affected? TSA agents who screen passengers and bags at airports. They're required to work without pay, and experts say that could cause travel problems. This as the busy spring travel season approaches.
Five European countries say authorities are confident that Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader who died in a remote prison two years ago, was poisoned. And Piers Rob Schmitz reports.
A statement from Britain, France, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands states that authorities conclude Navalny was poisoned with the lethal toxin epibatidine. found in poison dart frogs in South America. Russia claimed the opposition leader died of natural causes, but according to the statement, poisoning was, quote, highly likely the cause of his death.
Navalny was held in prison when he died, meaning Russia had the means, motive, and opportunity to administer the poison to him, read the statement. Navalny's widow, Yulia Navalny, told reporters at the Munich Security Conference that the finding is a validation of her longstanding assertion that Russian President Vladimir Putin was responsible for her husband's death.
Rob Schmitz, NPR News, Munich.
You're listening to NPR News from Washington. U.S. speed skater Jordan Stoltz slid into another Olympic victory today in Italy. As Empire's Ping Wang reports, he's halfway to his goal of four gold medals in Milan.
In the 500-meter speed skate, Stoltz was paired with Yannick Dubot, a top sprinter from the Netherlands. It was a rematch between them. They last raced side-by-side in the 1,000-meter event on Wednesday to the same result. Stoltz winning gold, setting a new Olympic record, Dubot close behind with the silver. Stolz wasn't basking in his victories.
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