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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dave Mattingly.
Chapter 2: What is the significance of Jesse Jackson's death?
There's word this morning that civil rights icon and two-time Democratic presidential candidate Jesse Jackson has died at the age of 84. That's according to a statement from his family and the Rainbow Push Coalition. They say Jackson died this morning. Jackson's long career included marching alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and two runs for the White House in 1984 and 1988.
Again, the Reverend Jesse Jackson has died. President Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner are in Geneva today for another round of indirect talks with Iran. The White House continues to press Iran to give up its nuclear program. It comes amid a buildup of U.S. naval assets in the Middle East to include a pair of carrier strike groups.
Trump and Iran's foreign minister both described recent indirect talks in Oman as having been productive. After talks on Iran, Witkoff and Kushner are scheduled to mediate peace talks between Russia and Ukraine, also in Geneva. Here's NPR's Charles Mainz.
The trilateral talks marked the third such meeting in recent weeks. Previous negotiations yielded several goodwill-generating prisoner swaps, but little clarity on how to put an end to the fighting. Months of U.S. efforts to negotiate an end to the conflict have bogged down over Russian maximalist demands on Ukrainian territory,
including land not controlled by Russian forces, as well as Ukraine's desire for ironclad security guarantees from the U.S. should it sign on to a peace deal. Also unclear what U.S. protections for Ukraine are on offer or what the Kremlin might accept, on the eve of the talks, President Trump suggested the onus was on Kiev to make concessions, saying Ukraine better come to the table fast.
Charles Mainz, NPR News, Moscow.
Airline passengers in the U.S. might soon be feeling the effects of the latest partial shutdown of the federal government. TSA agents at the nation's airports are among those not getting paid during this latest shutdown. Marlon Hyde with member station WABE has more from Atlanta.
It has only been a few months since the record 43-day shutdown last fall, and now TSA employees must work without a paycheck again. Tom Smith is an economist at Emory University.
What we saw in the past was you'll get an increase in number of people who are calling out sick. People will have to pick up second jobs in order to pay their bills.
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Chapter 3: What are the latest developments in U.S.-Iran negotiations?
For NPR News, Amar Lahad in Atlanta.
Congress-led funding for the Department of Homeland Security lapsed late last week. The House and Senate are off this week. This is NPR News from Washington. Police in Rhode Island say they're still piecing together the events that led to yesterday's deadly shooting at a youth ice hockey game in Pawtucket. Two people were killed. Three others were hospitalized in critical condition.
The city's police chief says it appears the gunman died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. She describes the attack as targeted. At the Winter Olympics in Italy, it'll be the U.S. versus Canada for the gold medal in women's hockey. The American team shut out Sweden yesterday 5-0 in the Olympic semifinal to advance to the gold medal game. The U.S.
has won gold and bronze in the women's Olympic bobsled competition, as NPR's Brian Mann reports.
Ilana Myers-Taylor and Kaylee Humphries have been teammates for years, talking publicly about the challenges of being elite athletes who are also parents moving into middle age. On the winding ice track, they put their deep experience on the line in the monobop race, where each athlete pushes and drives a solo bobsled.
Myers-Taylor came from behind to edge out a German sledder by four one-hundredths of a second, capturing gold. Myers-Taylor has the most medals of any black athletes in the Winter Games. with gold, three silver, and a bronze. Humphreys won gold in this event four years ago and slid a clean line here to win bronze.
Both women will have another shot at the podium in two-woman bobsled races later in the week. Brian Mann, NPR News, Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.
And repeating our top story, civil rights icon and two-time Democratic presidential candidate Jesse Jackson has died at the age of 84. I'm Dave Mattingly, NPR News in Washington.
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