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Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. In President Trump's first public cabinet meeting since the start of the U.S.-Israel war against Iran, today the Republican leaders said talks to end the conflict have been productive. NPR's Tamara Keith has new details.
Earlier this week, Trump teased that Iran had given him a present. Now he's saying what it was.
They said to show you the fact that we're real and solid and we're there. We're going to let you have eight boats of oil, eight boats, eight big boats of oil. This was two days ago.
Then Trump said he saw on the news that the tankers had been allowed to pass through the Strait of Hormuz unharmed.
And I said, well, I guess we're dealing with the right people.
Trump's Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff said U.S. negotiators presented a 15-point action list that could form a framework for a peace deal. Iranian state TV says Tehran does not want a temporary pause. Tamara Keith, NPR News, the White House.
Venezuela's ousted President Nicolás Maduro and his wife were back in federal court today in Manhattan. It was their second court appearance since they were captured in a U.S. military raid in January and brought to the U.S. to face drug trafficking charges. NPR's Ryan Lucas reports.
Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Celia Flores, have pleaded not guilty to the charges. At the hearing in federal court in lower Manhattan, both Maduro and his wife were dressed in beige jumpsuits and headphones, through which they listened to the proceedings via an interpreter. The hearing focused on a dispute over allowing the Venezuelan government to pay for the Maduro's legal defense. Maduro's attorney says the U.S. isn't allowing Venezuela to pick up the tab. He says that interferes with Maduro's constitutional right to counsel and the case should be dismissed. Prosecutors say the Venezuelan government can't pay because it is under American sanctions. U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein did not rule from the bench on the matter and noted that this case is unique.
Ryan Lucas, NPR News, New York.
Social media giants are facing what many describe as a massive reckoning following defeat in two landmark cases this week. One was in California, where a court said the way Meta and Google built their platforms could get children hooked. They were ordered to pay a total of $6 million in damages. Frances Haugen was a Facebook whistleblower. She says her former bosses had the tools to keep people better protected, but chose not to.
Like turning off notifications late at night, turning off notifications in the middle of school day, intentionally alerting users or allowing users to reduce how much negative content they see if they want to. And that's what the jurors heard. And the reason why they gave so much in damages was that Facebook had lots of tools in their tool chest, but they chose not to use them.
Howkin speaking with NPR is here and now, and we should note Google is a financial supporter of NPR. At last check on Wall Street, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down more than 400 points. From Washington, this is NPR News. Members of Congress are set to vote on advancing a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security. A top official at the Transportation Security Administration said if the partial government shutdown continued tomorrow, TSA will have missed nearly a billion dollars in paychecks since the shutdown began weeks ago. Hawin McNeil also told lawmakers that at some major airports, travelers have waited more than four hours at security checkpoints as more TSA officers call out sick at rates of 40 to 50 percent.
Bill Maher is set to receive the Mark Twain Prize for American humor after all. NPR's Elizabeth Blair reports President Trump does not appear to be a fan of Maher, but the Kennedy Center announced it's giving it to him anyway.
After the Atlantic magazine cited anonymous sources saying that Bill Maher would be receiving the prestigious Mark Twain Prize, White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt called it fake news. But the Kennedy Center has announced Maher will indeed be getting the Twain Award.
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