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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Nora Rahm. Today's planned talks in Pakistan on the war in Iran are canceled. President Trump said he told his negotiators not to go to Islamabad, saying there is tremendous infighting and confusion within the Iranian leadership and nobody knows who's in charge.
I think the prime minister of Pakistan is great. And they'd like to see something happen, but we're not gonna be traveling 15, 16 hours to have a meeting with people that nobody ever heard of.
It's not known when negotiations may resume. NPR's Kat Lonsdorf has been following the talks from Beirut, Lebanon. She says it appears Iran and the U.S.
are at an impasse. Neither side seems to be budging. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said yesterday that the U.S. will maintain the blockade around the strait for, quote, as long as it takes. The U.S. says it's intercepting any ships coming to or from Iranian ports, more than 30 so far. You know, that's as Iran has maintained its military control of the strait itself, keeping most commercial ships from passing through. So basically, most ships are stuck.
NPR's Kat Longsdorf. 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 were brought to the U.S. illegally as children before 2007. NPR's Ximena Bastillo 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. Ximena Bustillo, Empire News.
Time is running out for registering to vote in this year's primary elections in some states. states preparing to hold their primaries next month. NPR's Hansi Luang has more.
Today is a last chance for eligible voters in Louisiana to register online in time to cast ballots in the state's May 16th primary. And Monday is Nebraska's deadline for registering online or by mail, though in-person voter registration doesn't end until May 1st. In Oregon, you can still register online by mail or in person through Tuesday. And there's still about a week left in Alabama and Pennsylvania to sign up to vote in those primaries. Eligible voters in Montana also have until May 4th to register by mail, and they can sign up in person through June 2nd. If you're planning to use the U.S. Postal Service to mail your application, USPS recommends sending it at least a week before your state's deadline.
And to make sure it gets a postmark date, USPS says stop by a post office and ask for a free manual postmark at the counter. Anzila Wong, NPR News.
This is NPR News in Washington. The Trump administration plans to expand the number of ways the federal government can put a prisoner to death. It announced yesterday it will add electrocution, gas asphyxiation, and death by firing squad. Most death sentences are carried out by state governments. The U.S. is one of a few Western nations that still employs the death penalty. Researchers have found remnants of what they say is the largest invertebrate-ever document, gargantuan octopuses. Ari Daniel has more.
A team of scientists sliced through large rocks that had formed on the seafloor 100 million years ago. They created 3D reconstructions of any fossils inside, which included a handful of octopus jaws, the only hard part in these soft-bodied creatures. The jaws allowed an estimation of the animal's body size, and they were likely colossal, each one larger than a school bus. Jörg Mutaloza is a paleontologist at Ruhr University Bochum.
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