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Chapter 1: What are the latest updates on the Iran negotiations?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. President Trump says he's not satisfied with Iran's latest proposal to end the war. NPR's Franco Ordonez reports.
President Trump says Iran wants to make a deal and that negotiations are continuing, but that it's difficult to make progress because of Iran's disjointed leadership. He says his team is trying to negotiate with two to four different groups of Iranian leaders.
And it puts us in a bad position. One group wants to make a certain deal. The other group wants to make a certain deal.
Speaking outside the White House on his way to Florida, Trump says negotiations continue by phone and that they've made strides during these talks. But he also said he wasn't sure if the Iranians would ever get to where they needed to be. Franco Ordonez, NPR News, the White House.
A federal appeals court has issued a ruling restricting telemedicine access to the abortion pill Mifepristone nationally. The decision rolls back Biden-era rules that allowed the pill to be prescribed online or over the phone and then mailed.
Doctors argue an in-person prescription is medically unnecessary and that the policy is a way for abortion opponents to make it harder to access the procedure. This week, the Supreme Court ruled that Louisiana's voting map is unconstitutional. Legal experts expect that will diminish minority representation.
Leslie Burrell McLemore is an emeritus professor at Jackson State University in Mississippi. Six decades ago, he was a student leader of civil rights protests that helped bring about this 1965 Voting Rights Act.
Of course, progress has been made throughout the country. But racism is still very... alive and well. As one of my college roommates used to say, in the American South now, some whites will smile at your face and stab you in the back. It is not as blatant as it was when I was growing up in Mississippi, but clearly we have a problem in this country.
Leaders in several Republican-led states are now considering redrawing their congressional maps after the ruling. The House has passed a $390 billion farm bill that would set agriculture and nutrition assistance policy through 2031, though it faces headwinds in the Senate. Frank Morris of member station KCUR reports.
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Chapter 2: How is the ruling on Mifepristone affecting telemedicine?
Last fall, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops issued a statement opposing the administration's immigration tactics, including what they called the vilification of immigrants. Sarah Ventry, NPR News.
A young Southern Sea otter named Ray has become a surrogate mother to an orphaned pup, Sunny, at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, California. A program pairs maternal-age female otters with motherless pups to help them survive. Ray was once stranded herself, and now she's teaching Sunny essential skills, though they'll never return to the wild. This is NPR.
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