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Top Senate Republicans are circulating a proposal that would end the more than month

long shutdown of the Homeland Security Department.

But President Trump and Senate Democrats are indicating they do not support the offer.

Here's NPR Sam Greenglass.

The negotiations have felt like whiplash.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune said his colleagues had sold President Trump on a plan

to fund DHS, except for the ICE unit responsible for removal operations.

That could be done later in a party line reconciliation bill,

along with parts of the voting law over how Trump wants.

Maybe you can just say that my colleagues were more persuasive than I was.

A few minutes later, Trump threw cold water on that.

I think any deal they make, I'm pretty much not happy with it.

And Minority Leader Chuck Schumer declined to say his caucus would back the deal as is.

As I said, we need reforms.

Senate Democrats in the White House are continuing to exchange offers.

Sam Greenglass and PR News Washington.

President Trump again declaring victory over Iran and speaking in the Oval Office Tuesday.

Trump again said the U.S. is in talks with Iran to end the fighting.

Iran has denied any negotiations or taking place.

Trump's comments come as thousands of U.S. Marines are headed to the Middle East.

NPR has also confirmed that deployment of some 2000 soldiers from the Army's 82nd Airborne Division.

NPR's Daniel Kertzlaven reports a series of Trump administration policies testing the patience of U.S. farmers.

The war on Iran and the resulting closure of the Strait of Hormuz have spiked the costs of nitrogen fertilizer and fuel.

All of that comes after deportations thinned out the agricultural labor force

and tariffs both pushed input prices higher and disrupted normal trading relationships.

Illinois farmer, Dave O'Brien, is fed up with the Trump administration's messaging.

By these statements about well, there's going to be a little hurt to be spread around, but that'll all get better.

That's almost an insult.

But we're supposed to take it in the ribs.

But I guarantee you'll get it better.

In a statement to NPR, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said President Trump is, quote,

looking at every potential option to lower fertilizer prices.

Daniel Kertzlaven and PR News.

Open AI says it is discontinuing a tool for making AI video that was widely used to generate fake videos of real events.

And PR is Jeff Frumfigal reports.

Open AI says it's discontinuing its Sora tool, which could generate 10 second videos of virtually anything imaginable.

Like this fake video showing Venice, Wales, celebrating in the streets after the U.S. capture of Nicolas Maduro.

Those celebrations never happened.

Neither did scores of fake videos of ICE agents, attacks on Israel and Iran,

or countless other so-called news events generated by Sora.

Experts say even if the app is gone, AI video is here to stay,

and it's making it harder than ever to tell what's real and what is fake.

Jeff Frumfigal and PR News.

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A jury in New Mexico has found that social media giant Meta failed to warn users about the dangers of its platforms

that its platforms posed to children.

The jury Tuesday found Meta in violation of New Mexico's consumer protection law

by hiding what it knew about risks to say children's safety and mental health,

ordering Meta to pay $375 million in penalties.

Meta owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, and says it plans to appeal.

A jury is deliberating a similar case in Los Angeles.

The head of NASA says the agency is going to pause its effort to build a small,

orbiting space station around the moon.

NPR's NL Greenfield Boys reports the agency will instead focus on the lunar surface.

Since private astronaut and wealthy entrepreneur Jared Isaac Men became NASA's administrator a few months ago,

he's been shaking up its Artemis moon program.

In a speech at NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C., he said work on the lunar space station known as Gateway would stop.

So that all efforts can go towards constructing a permanent moon base.

The moon base will not appear overnight.

We will invest approximately $20 billion over the next seven years and build it through dozens of missions.

NASA is on the verge of launching four astronauts on a mission to circle the moon and return for the first time since the 1970s

with a launch opportunity coming in about a week.

Landing astronauts on the lunar surface is targeted for 2028.

NL Greenfield Boys, NPR News.

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