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Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Willman.
What are the implications of the federal government shutdown?
For the third time in three months, the federal government is in a partial shutdown. Congress could not agree on a spending bill to continue funding for the Department of Homeland Security before a Friday night deadline. Air travel could be affected because TSA screening agents will not be paid until funding is restored. But NPS Ron Elving says one part of DHS will remain in full force.
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 administration of the overall agency.
That's NPR's Ron Elving with our report. Congress, meanwhile, is in recess for the next week. In a statement issued on Saturday, five European countries said that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned by Russia. Navalny died in a Russian prison two years ago. NPR's Rob Schmitz reports from Munich.
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.
Four people traveling on NASA's Crew-12 rocket have now arrived at the International Space Station. As NPR's Lydia Kalitri reports, the crew will be spending the next eight months conducting experiments to prepare for human exploration beyond Earth's orbits.
four-person crew docked at the ISS Saturday afternoon. The Crew-12 mission includes two NASA astronauts, a French astronaut, and a Russian cosmonaut. The mission replaces the crew from NASA's Crew-11 mission, which departed the ISS a month ahead of schedule in January due to a medical evacuation of one of the crew members. During their eight-month mission, The crew will conduct scientific research to prepare for human exploration beyond Earth's orbit and enhance food production in space. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman says that NASA is simultaneously making preparations for the 10-day Artemis II mission, which would send a crew of four astronauts around the moon. Lydia Kalitri, NPR News.
And you're listening to NPR News. The U.N. 's Human Rights Office says more than 6,000 civilians were killed last October during three days of fighting in Sudan's Darfur region. The U.N. says the deaths were caused by the paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces, and officials say the attack included war crimes along with possible crimes against humanity. Many people the group says were targeted for their ethnicity. At the Olympics, a preliminary curling match has been marred by accusations of cheating, and as NPR's Ping Huang reports, it got heated on the ice.
On Friday, the Canadian men's team won a round-robin match against Sweden, but the victory was overshadowed by an altercation. In curling, players throw a granite stone down the ice. They must release it before it crosses the hog line or it gets removed from play. During the match, the Swedes accused the Canadians more than once of touching the stone after it had passed the line, and Mark Kennedy, on Team Canada, responded with an expletive. Game officials, who sit at either end of the sheet, say they didn't see a double touch so they couldn't call it.
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