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Korva Coleman
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Korva Coleman. President Trump says he's postponing attacks on Iran's power plants for five days. He says that's because his team is having, quote, productive conversations with Iran. But NPR's Franco Ordonez reports Trump also says he's not guaranteeing anything.
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Emily Harding
Trump's made clear he wants to reach a deal. But Emily Harding from the center for Strategic and International Studies says Trump knows the politics. He knows the midterms are coming and sees the oil market struggling. She recommended taking Trump's bravado with a grain of salt.
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Franco Ordonez
It really fits his M.O. this is how he prefers to negotiate. He makes a real maximalist pressure, demand, and then he seems to want to find a way to negotiate out of it so he can take the pressure off and declare victory. But it kind of goes either way, right? I mean, the the adversary gets a
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Emily Harding
vote, she points out. We've heard these kind of things before, including about reaching a deal with Russia over the Ukraine war, which which never materialized. Franco Ordonez, NPR News.
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Korva Coleman
Iran's state media say there is a new leader for the country's National Security Council. Former Revolutionary Guard commander Mohammad Bagr Zolgadr is to take over from Ali Larajani, who was killed in an airstrike. The US Senate has confirmed Oklahoma Republican Senator Mark Wayne Mullen as secretary of Homeland Security. It will take over an agency that's partially shut down. NPR. Sam Greenglass reports. Lawmakers and the White House are squaring off over immigration enforcement.
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Sam Greenglass
Mullen is inheriting a department at the center of a national debate about immigration after federal agents shot and killed two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis earlier this year. While ICE still has billions of dollars at its disposal despite the funding lapse, employees at other agencies under dhs, like TSA are going without pay, and absences are causing long waits at major airports. Some lawmakers hope their colleague will be a steadier hand compared to his predecessor, Kristi Noem, who Trump ultimately fired. But most Democrats still opposed his nomination, saying they don't believe a change in leadership is enough of a course correction. Sam Greenglass, NPR News, Washington.
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Korva Coleman
Meanwhile, hundreds of TSA agents have quit. Others are calling out. President Trump has now deployed ICE agents to some major airports to assist with security. Many air travelers at Atlanta's major airport had to wait five hours to clear security. Georgia Public Broadcasting Sophie Gratas says ICE agents are there.
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Sophie Gratas
Most of the ICE agents have been kind of walking around near the main security checkpoints at the airport and just observing the area. They weren't wearing any face coverings and they seem to be doing more patrolling than actually helping with security lines. And besides, Atlanta ICE isn't really saying publicly where else agents have been deployed. We do know they've been seen at about a dozen airports.
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Korva Coleman
Sophie Grato's reporting for from Atlanta. On Wall street and premarket trading, Dow futures are lower. This is NPR. New York's LaGuardia Airport is open today, but federal officials say traffic is very slow. Passengers should expect to wait more than four hours for flights. Officials are reviewing how an Air Canada jet collided with a fire truck as it landed Sunday night at LaGuardia. Two pilots were killed. Dozens of people were injured. The New York Times and other media outlets report President Trump has cast a mail ballot in a special local election today in Florida. He's used this method before in 2020. But NPR rather Trump continues to rail against mail voting, calling it cheating. This also comes as the U.S. supreme Court heard a case yesterday that would limit the use of some mail ballots. This case is being pressed by Republicans. In rivers around the world, many types of fish undertake massive migrations. They cross international border and provide people with food and jobs. But as NPR's Nate Rott reports, a new assessment finds many of these migrations are collapsing.
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Nate Rott
The new United nations led report offers the most comprehensive look at the world's freshwater fish migrations ever. And its findings are sobering. Migratory fish populations have fallen by more than 80% globally since 1970. 325 different species, it says, should be considered for protection. And protecting those species will require international coordination. The assessment's authors say, with rivers being treated as connected systems, a challenge, some scientists say, given the broader state of international affairs. Nate Rott, NPR News.
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Korva Coleman
Again, on Wall street, in pre market trading, Dow futures are lower. It's NPR.
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