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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dan Ronan. There could be further peace talks between the United States and Iran. This despite the Iranian Health ministry's claim that American airstrikes this week killed 17 people and injured more than 100 others. As Willem Marks reports, the status of the Strait of Hormuz will remain central to any potential negotiations.
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Iran's foreign minister arrived in the Omani capital of Muscat on Saturday with the possibility of further talks involving US Officials not yet publicly confirmed by either side. The Iranian state backed Fars News Agency said Iran will not enter into talks with American negotiators until the United States reverses its positions as foreign Minister Abbas Arakchee criticized the Trump administration for failing to uphold its side of a previous agreement. Earlier this week, Iranian forces fired on several commercial tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, precipitating retaliatory U.S. airstrikes across Iran. On Truth Social Friday, President Trump promised to decimate and destroy all areas of Iran should they attempt to follow through on reported threats to assassinate him. For NPR News, I'm Villain Marks.
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A widespread, dangerous heat wave is building across the U.S. triple digit temperatures are expected next week across the Southwest and the Great Plains before moving to the Midwest and East Coast. Joe Wegman is a meteorologist with the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction center in College Park, Maryland.
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The next big heat wave follows right on its heels across the Northern Plains particularly, but also including portions of the Intermountain west around Utah and also down into the Los Angeles basin for next week.
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The weather service is forecasting temperatures at 90 U.S. locations being tied or broken by the middle of next week. The Justice Department has subpoenaed at least four journalists from the New York Times. This over the paper's recent reporting about potential security concerns involving Air Force One, an aircraft donated by the Qatari government. The Times had reported President Trump left Turkey this week on the old Air Force One after the Secret Service intervened. NPR's David Folkenfrich reports.
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The Times says an FBI official initially asked the paper to hold off on publishing and then asked for its sources. The Times refused. On Friday, after publication, federal agents went to the homes of several of the journalists involved to deliver the subpoenas. The Justice Department and the FBI did not return requests for comment. David McCraw, a senior lawyer for the New York Times, called it a brazen attempt to intimidate reporters and the Times and to prevent the public from knowing how the government operates. The journalists have been instructed to appear before a grand jury next week. David Folkenflick, NPR News.
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In Maine, Graham Platner is now officially out of the U.S. senate race. Democrats now have a little more than two weeks to select a replacement in that race. This is NPR News from Washington. A 61 year old passenger on a Ryanair Greece to Germany flight sustained injuries on Friday when he was partially sucked out of the plane after a window broke open after takeoff. The man sustained neck and shoulder injuries as well as a friction burn. Passengers say they heard a loud bang. The oxygen mask dropped in the plane, then began losing altitude. The aircraft did return safely. The president of Pen America, the free speech advocacy organization, has resigned from his post seven months into his tenure. As NPR's Anastasi Tsisiolkis reports, he quit in response to an article published by PEN about Israel and Jewish writers who say their work is being boycotted.
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The novelist Dinau Mengestu was elected the president of Pan America in December. He told the New York Times he had resigned partly due to an article Pan America published about Israeli and Jewish authors who say they are being isolated and excluded since the October 7 attacks and the war in Gaza. Within the story, Pan America outlined its objections to cultural and academic boycotts, according to the Times. Mengestu said it was part of a larger trend at Pan America of what he called defending some rights while not defending others. Pan America told the Times they respect that he's made a decision he believes in. Anastasia Tsiolkis, NPR News, New York.
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Work crews are once again draining the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington in an attempt to make repairs after an algae bloom began after the repairs were done. This is NPR News.
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