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Chapter 1: What updates are there on the U.S.-Iran negotiations?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. It's still not clear what's going on with negotiations between the U.S. and Iran to end the war. NPR's Mara Liason reports.
White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt said talks continue and that they are, quote, productive. But according to Iranian state media, Tehran has rejected a U.S. proposal, quoting a senior Iranian security official who says Iran will end the war when its conditions are met. Those conditions include the right of Iran to control the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran has refused President Trump's demands to reopen the Strait to oil and gas shipments. Trump has made a series of other demands, sometimes contradictory. They include unconditional surrender, regime change, a hand in picking Iran's next leader, and an end to Iran's nuclear weapons program.
When asked about the possibility of more talks this weekend, Levitt said nothing has been officially announced. Mara Liason, NPR News, the White House.
A jury in Los Angeles has found that Meta and Google were to blame for the depression and anxiety of a woman who compulsively used social media as a small child. As NPR's Bobby Allen reports, it's the second major verdict this week in landmark social media trials.
A jury has awarded a woman $3 million for mental health struggles that developed after compulsive use of YouTube and Instagram. After a month-long trial, a jury found that Meta and Google deliberately designed social media platforms to addict young people.
The verdict comes a day after a separate jury in New Mexico ordered Meta to pay $375 million for failing to protect kids and teens from child predators on its platforms. The Los Angeles jury found that Meta and Google acted with malice, which means the case now moves to the punitive stage, where the amount of damages could be far more.
Google and Meta are vowing to fight the verdicts, which are the first-ever judgments against the social media industry over the harms of its platforms. Bobby Allen, NPR News, Los Angeles.
The acting head of the Transportation Security Administration says air travelers are experiencing the highest airport wait times ever under her agency. Han Nguyen McNeil told a House committee that workers going without pay during the partial government shutdown could lead to airport closures.
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Chapter 2: What are the implications of the recent social media verdicts?
Exactly when and where this happened remains a mystery. I'm Ryland Barton. You're listening to NPR News from Washington.
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