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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Korva Coleman. The Department of Homeland Security is on track to shut down at the end of today. As NPR's Barbara Sprunt reports, the Senate failed to advance a bill to provide further funding for the agency and there's no deal in sight.
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Democrats say they'll only vote to fund DHS if there are significant changes to the department, specifically Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, after two US Citizens were fatally shot by officers in Minneapolis. But this shutdown wouldn't mean a shutdown of ICE itself. That agency received over $70 billion in separate funding from Congress last summer. Lawmakers in both the Senate and House are expected to be out of town next week, but they'll be on notice to return to D.C. if there's a deal. Barbara Sprent, NPR, Washington.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio is in Germany for the Munich Security Conference. His remarks will be closely watched. Vice President J.D. vance went last year and delivered an aggressive speech to European allies. He blamed them for letting immigrants ruin Western civilization. Before leaving Washington, Rubio seemed to strike a moderate tone.
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The world is changing very fast right in front of us. The old world is gone, frankly, the world I grew up in. And we live in a new era in geopolitics and it's going to require all of us to sort of re examine what that looks like and what our role is going to be. And we've had many of these conversations in private with many of our allies and they are our allies and we need to continue to have those conversations. And I think Saturday, hopefully, and the meetings we'll have there will move us in that direction.
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The secretary of state will also visit Slovakia and Hungary on his trip. Both European Union countries lean toward Russia and depend on Russian energy. Meanwhile, Russia has not ceased its drone and missile attacks on Ukraine's cities and energy infrastructure. That's even as Russia claims to want to end the war. NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says Moscow has refused to commit to another round of U S led peace talks.
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Overnight Thursday, Russia launched 24 Iskander ballistic missiles, one guided air missile and 219 drones, say Ukrainian authorities. NPR was able to witness it. Opposition Member of Parliament Inna Sovsun says Russian President Vladimir Putin is just playing for time.
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He has no real plan to stop this war. And he basically tricked Trump into a situation where Trump can claim that he can continue the negotiations. Yet at the same time, as we have seen, nothing real came out of those talks.
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So far, Russia has not budged from its maximalist demands, she says, and Putin refuses to meet with Zelenskyy because it would be all too obvious who is the impediment. Eleanor Beardsley, NPR News, Kyiv.
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On Wall street, the Dow Jones industrial average is up more than 100 points. You're listening to NPR News. The Justice Department is suing Harvard University. The agency alleges Harvard is failing to comply with a federal investigation into its admissions process. The agency is also seeking documents that it claims the university is withholding. Federal officials say they want to know if Harvard is complying with a U.S. supreme Court decision that determined race conscious college admissions are unconstitutional. A crew of four astronauts blasted off before dawn this morning from Cape Canaveral, Florida, in a SpaceX Dragon capsule.
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Three, two, one, ignition and liftoff. Go Falcon, Go Dragon. And Godspeed Crew 12.
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The crew is headed for the International Space Station. Several horror movies are opening today at theaters across the country on this Friday the 13th. NPR's Netta Ulaby has more.
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This is a dead time of year in movie theaters, and that's good for horror movie fans.
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Did you hear something?
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That's from a new horror movie called Undertone about a haunted podcast. It opens not today, but in March, which also has a Friday the 13th. Yep, two in a row. Stephen Follows is a film data analyst. He says the date does not make a real difference financially.
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So the Friday the 13th thing is cute and it's fun and it might help provide a spine to the marketing, but it's not going to radically transform.
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The numbers to make a killing at the box office. He says a horror movie has to slay. Neta Ulibi, NPR News.
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