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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston. A U.S. delegation is heading to Islamabad today for another round of peace talks with Iran. An Iranian delegation is also there, but officials say there are no plans for direct talks with the U.S. Alan Ayer is a former U.S. diplomat who worked on the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. He tells NPR's Weekend Edition that the two sides are at an impasse.
The U.S. Navy is blockading Iranian ports, and the Iranian economy was horrible before the war. And the U.S. is feeling, the world is feeling significant pain because of the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. So both sides are feeling significant pain, but perversely, I don't think either side really has yet gotten to the place where they're eager to negotiate. So we'll see what happens if, in fact, there is a meeting.
The Pentagon says the U.S. blockade of Iranian ships and ports would continue for as long as it takes to get Tehran to agree to a deal. The government of Argentina says it wants to reopen talks with Britain over the Falkland Islands. A leaked Pentagon memo suggested Washington might review its position on the British overseas territory as punishment for the U.K. 's refusal to join the war on Iran. The BBC's Mimi Swaby has more.
Argentina's sovereignty claim over the Falkland Islands, which it calls Las Malvinas, is not new. It has often been used as a rousing call by presidential candidates vying for voters. But the heated, long-standing debate has been reignited by the leaked Pentagon memo. And apparently emboldened by this, on Friday, Argentina's president, Javier Mele, an ally of Donald Trump, posted on social media in capital letters that the islands were, are and always would be Argentine. His foreign minister said Argentina wanted to restart negotiations with the UK, something London does not want to engage with. It says the territory's sovereignty rests with the UK.
NPR has not independently confirmed details of the leaked memo. The Justice Department says recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program are not necessarily shielded from deportation. It's the latest move by the Trump administration to strip away protections for the half-million people who are brought to the United States illegally as children before 2007. NPR's Jimena Bustillo reports.
The decision comes from the Board of Immigration Appeals, which is an administrative court that hears appeals from immigration courts. Both are part of the Justice Department. This case centers on a DACA recipient who was detained by Customs and Border Protection while boarding a domestic flight last summer. She was later released from immigration detention in October, and a federal immigration judge said that her DACA status protected her from deportation. The Department of Homeland Security has appealed. It argues that DACA protections are not absolute and are subject to discretion. Jimena Bustillo, NPR News.
This is NPR News. The Justice Department says it will allow firing squads as a federal method of execution as the Trump administration moves to speed up capital punishment cases. It says it's also bringing back lethal injection using pentobarbital, the same method used in 13 federal executions during President Trump's first term in office. The Biden administration had removed that drug from federal protocols, citing concerns about the risk of unnecessary pain and suffering. President Trump is set to attend the annual White House Correspondents Association dinner tonight in Washington, D.C. NPR's Tamara Keith reports it will be his first appearance as president, but not his first time at the dinner.
In 2011, Trump attended as a celebrity guest at a time when he was on a high-profile conspiracy-driven quest to get then-President Obama to release his birth certificate. Both Obama and comedian Seth Meyers mocked Trump relentlessly that night. Trump boycotted the dinner his entire first term. This year, the association hired a mentalist instead of a comedian. And the president, who calls the press the enemy of the people, agreed to attend.
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