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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Nora Rahm.
Chapter 2: What did President Trump announce about U.S. diplomacy with Iran?
President Trump says he's canceled the U.S. delegation's trip to Islamabad for talks with Iran this weekend. NPR's Deepa Shivaram has more.
Trump says there was too much time wasted on traveling for in-person talks. On the way back to Washington, Trump told reporters in Palm Beach, Florida, that Iranians could continue negotiations over the phone. Have people traveling for 16, 17 hours. We're not doing it that way. We'll do it when they want. They can call me.
He also claimed that there is infighting among Iranian leadership and confusion over who's in charge. Trump extended the ceasefire with Iran earlier this week, though it's not clear when it will lift. The White House has just said that's up to the president. Trump says that after he canceled the travel to Pakistan, Iran came back with a better deal. He said Iran offered a lot, but not enough.
Deepa Shivaram, NPR News. Ukrainian officials say Russia attacked overnight in the central city of Dnipro using dozens of missiles and hundreds of drones. Authorities say at least five people were killed NPR's Polina Litvinova reports.
Rescue crews worked to clear rubble at the site of an attack on an apartment building in Dnipro in central Ukraine. The city was hit with ballistic missiles and drones, damaging residential areas, civilian infrastructure and causing fires.
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote on social media that every such Russian attack should remind Ukraine's allies they need to strengthen Ukrainian air defenses so the country can defend itself from aerial strikes. Russian forces also targeted critical facilities in Ukrainian southern and eastern regions. Polina Litvinova, NPR News, Kyiv.
Arizona's attorney general filed a federal lawsuit yesterday to stop the Department of Homeland Security from turning a warehouse in a Phoenix suburb into a detention facility. Cameron Sanchez of member station KJZZ reports.
Attorney General Chris Mays, a Democrat, says the location of the facility in the city of Surprise is inappropriate for housing human beings and says DHS didn't submit necessary environmental reviews. The warehouse is across the street from a hazardous chemical storage facility. Mays says the government is obligated by its own laws to conduct a safety analysis.
In their rush to expand detention capacity across the country and implement a deportation system that operates, quote, like Amazon Prime but with human beings, DHS and ICE have run roughshod over federal law.
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