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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston. Ukraine says President Volodymyr Zelensky could travel to the United States for talks in the coming days on a new peace plan to end the war with Russia. The previous proposal was criticized for being too favorable to Russia. Former U.S. diplomat Kurt Volker says Moscow hasn't shown much incentive to compromise.
What recent developments are there in the Ukraine-Russia peace talks?
The fundamentals have not changed. So everyone's looking for some easy way out where we negotiate, Putin's reasonable, and we have a deal. There isn't going to be an easy way out. Putin wants to wage this war, and he has to be stopped.
President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that sensitive issues remain on the table, including the release of prisoners of war and the return of abducted children. The Trump administration is being sued over efforts to cut wages for foreign guest workers. As Frank Morris with member station KCUR reports, the legal action is being taken by unions representing farmworkers.
The Trump administration wants to ease an acute farm labor shortage by dropping the wage rates for foreign guest workers under the H-2A visa program. H-2A visa wage rates are supposed to be set high enough to encourage farmers to hire locally, protecting American workers. United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero says the cuts would depress wages across agriculture.
There is nothing America first about extending exploitative guest worker programs. of undercutting American wages. So that is what this lawsuit is about.
The lawsuit claims the Trump administration sidestepped the normal process of changing the H-2A wage rate and that the guest worker pay cuts would freeze Americans out of the farm labor force. For NPR News, I'm Frank Morris.
Prosecutors in Paris have arrested four more people in connection with the jewel heist at the Louvre Museum. NPR's Kristen Wright reports they're being questioned by police.
The two men and two women are in custody. Prosecutors say they're from Paris and range in age from 31 to 40. They're suspected of being involved in the October heist at the Louvre. More than $100 million worth of royal jewels were stolen in broad daylight and still haven't been recovered. The thieves pulled up in a moving truck with a ladder and climbed up to a balcony to break in. They had on reflective vests to look like maintenance workers. The heist took less than 10 minutes. It's raised questions about security at the Louvre. the world's most visited museum. Eight people have been arrested so far.
Kristen Wright, NPR News. Retail sales in the U.S. slowed in September. The Commerce Department says sales rose two-tenths of one percent, a smaller increase than in August. The weaker numbers are raising expectations that the Fed could cut interest rates at its December meeting. This is NPR News. Israel says it's taking a large archaeological site from Palestinian landowners in the occupied West Bank. Palestinian authorities are calling it an Israeli seizure of a Palestinian heritage site. NPR's Daniel Estrin reports from Tel Aviv.
The Israeli expropriation would be the largest land seizure for antiquities ever recorded in the West Bank, according to the watchdog group Peace Now. The Sebastia archaeological site is identified with the capital of the biblical kingdom of Israel. The site includes remains from the 1st century BC and from Roman Byzantine crusader and other periods. It's located in a Palestinian village, and tourism there has been a source of income for Palestinians. Israeli defense officials said in a statement the expropriation is a government decision to develop the site into an archaeological park. Israel accuses Palestinian authorities of neglecting the site. Advocacy groups say it's an Israeli move to stake claim to more land.
Daniel Estrin, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
The National Zoo in Washington, D.C. is preparing for its first Asian elephant calf in nearly 25 years. Zookeepers say 12-year-old Neeland is on track to deliver between mid-January and early March.
How is the Trump administration impacting foreign guest worker wages?
Elephant pregnancies could run up to 22 months.
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