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Chapter 1: What is the current state of US-Iran talks?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Nora Rahm. The United States and Iran have agreed to meet again this Saturday for talks on reaching agreement on Iran's advancing nuclear program. Delegations from both sides met in Oman yesterday for the first high-level talks in years.
Chapter 2: What were the previous agreements on Iran's nuclear program?
The previous deal was reached in 2015 under President Obama, which President Trump later withdrew from during his first administration. The goal now is to come up with a new agreement. NPR's Greg Myrie has more.
Saturday's talks were an important first step. The U.S. and Iran held these talks in Oman's capital, Muscat, mediated by Oman. And the key issues are clear. What will the limits be on Iran's nuclear program? And to what extent will Iran get relief from the tough sanctions imposed by the U.S. ? But both sides sounded very serious. The U.S. called the talks positive and constructive.
Iran struck a similar note, and they've agreed to meet again on Saturday.
Chapter 3: How is the UK's new world order vision relevant?
NPR's Greg Myhre. One of America's oldest allies is leading a drive to create a new world order that does not have the U.S. at its center. Vicki Barker reports.
As Britain's prime minister in 2009, Gordon Brown worked to upgrade the G20 to help heads of state tackle the global financial crisis together. Now, in the wake of what he calls a week from hell on global currency and financial markets, he says a similar international effort is needed to preserve the rules-based trading system, telling the BBC.
President Trump, in a way, is a symptom of a changing world order, and we've got to address the problems that arise from it.
Britain's finance minister, Rachel Reeves, writes in the Sunday Observer she will argue for a new international trading system at an international monetary fund meeting later this month. For NPR News, I'm Vicki Barker in London.
Dozens of immigration courts around the country are facing vacancies, creating potential bottlenecks to proper due process for people President Trump wants to deport. NPR's Ximena Bastillo reports.
Immigration law experts say the judicial vacancies exacerbate millions of backlogged cases already piled up in immigration courts.
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Chapter 4: What challenges do immigration courts face today?
For this president to campaign on deporting immigrants on the one hand, and then he turns around and fires the judges that are supposed to hear the cases on the other hand, it's a head-scratcher.
That is Matt Biggs, president of the union that represents immigration judges. There is currently a 4 million case backlog in the courts, and each judge could have reviewed up to 700 cases a year. But as the administration makes it a priority to increase the pace of immigration-related arrests, it's unclear what the plan is to replace the judges to hear the cases.
Ximena Bustillo, NPR News, Washington.
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro says someone set fire to his residence in Harrisburg earlier this morning. He said he and his family were evacuated and the fire put out. There were no injuries. This is NPR News in Washington. An Israeli strike hit a hospital in Gaza early today. The military had issued a warning to evacuate in advance.
Hospital officials say one child died during the evacuation after being disconnected from the oxygen supply. Today is the final round of the Masters in Augusta, and Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy has a chance to become only the sixth golfer ever to win golf's Grand Slam. Steve Futterman reports.
McIlroy has won three of golf's four so-called major tournaments, the U.S. Open, the British Open, and the PGA, but never the Masters. He has come close, however, it's always ended in heartbreak. At age 35, this could be his last best chance. McIlroy says on the course he needs to stay calm.
I just have to keep reminding myself that no matter what situation or scenario I find myself in, I'll be able to handle it.
Clark MacArthur from Atlanta will be at today's round cheering McElroy on.
McElroy deserves it more than really anyone that's played the game in recent years, and I'd love to see him get that grand slam.
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