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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Nora Rahm. Lawmakers in the White House remain deadlocked over proposed changes to federal immigration enforcement. NPR's Sam Greenglass reports the Department of Homeland Security ran out of money on Friday. forcing it to partially shut down.
What are the latest developments in federal immigration enforcement?
This latest standoff seems to follow a familiar cycle. A crisis captures national attention. A number of Democrats and Republicans pledged to take action only for talks to fizzle and lawmakers to trade blame across the aisle. That's what happened after a bipartisan effort to resurrect Lapp's health subsidies fell apart recently, says Senator Tim Kaine, a Virginia Democrat.
On health care... On immigration, the parties are in fundamentally very, very different places. And so that means I go into any negotiation in a topic like this, high hopes, low expectations.
Negotiations on immigration between Democrats and the White House are ongoing, but Congress is in recess until next week. Sam Greenglass, NPR News, Washington.
Ukrainian negotiators arrived in Geneva today for another round of negotiations on ending Russia's war. a week before the fourth anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion. Russia and the U.S. will also attend the talks, which begin tomorrow. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the U.S. is doing what it can to end the war.
The United States has been successful. at being able to get both sides to talk. I mean, for the first time in a number of years, you actually have at a technical level military officials from both sides sat down last week in the Middle East, and we'll restart those talks again in Geneva later this week.
Rubio spoke in Budapest after meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Also in Geneva tomorrow, another round of talks begin between the U.S. and Iran on Iran's nuclear program. The two sides had met earlier this month in Oman. Iran's deputy foreign minister told the BBC yesterday Iran is ready to consider compromises to reach an agreement if the U.S. is willing to discuss lifting sanctions. The UN says despite the U.S.-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, it's still waiting for an agreement to be reached to disarm Hamas before it can begin removing explosives from civilian areas. NPR's Daniel Estrin reports.
The United Nations Mine Action Service is currently clearing explosive ordnance for humanitarian aid workers, but it's not yet systematically removing explosive remnants from civilian areas, so they're not accused of taking weapons away from Hamas before an agreement is reached on disarmament. The US is working on a plan for disarming Hamas. A question remains if Hamas would retain small arms for some time. In new remarks, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Hamas would need to give up its assault rifles and said 70 percent of Hamas's tunnels in Gaza are still intact. Daniel Estrin, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
This is NPR News in Washington. In Sydney, Australia, a man accused of killing 15 people at a Jewish festival last year appeared in court for the first time today. Navid Akram did not enter a plea. He faces 59 charges. including 15 counts of murder and one count of committing a terrorist act. From the box office numbers, it looks like the whole world celebrated Valentine's Day over the weekend. NPR's Bob Mondello explains.
Netflix offered to pay almost twice as much as the studio that got the rights to the new Wuthering Heights, but the filmmakers wanted their swoony romance to play in movie theaters over the Valentine's Day weekend. Shh! not just stream. Turns out they were right, with women making up 75% of the audience. Kiss me and let us both be damned. Wuthering Heights was both a date movie and an excuse for a girl's night out. It will take in $40 million by Monday night and another $42 million overseas. Coming in second, a movie about teamwork and the love of basketball.
We're all different, but that's what makes us strong. And together, we can do something great.
The animated family comedy Goat will dribble its way to $34 million by the end of President's Day weekend.
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