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News Wrap: Panama’s president rejects U.S. claim of canal transit fee deal

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🗓️ 6 February 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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In our news wrap Thursday, Panama's president is pushing back on U.S. claims that a deal over transit fees for the Panama Canal was reached, the NCAA updated its transgender policy to limit women's competition to athletes who were assigned as female at birth and there are growing concerns over the spread of bird flu after dairy cattle in Nevada became infected with a new variant of the disease. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

And we start the day's other headlines with college sports. The NCAA is updating its transgender

0:06.2

policy to limit women's competition to athletes who were assigned as female at birth. The change

0:12.3

comes a day after President Trump signed an executive order aimed at banning transgender athletes

0:18.0

from girls and women's sports. The policy is effective immediately,

0:21.9

and it applies to all 500,000 NCAA athletes across the organization's 1,200 schools. Prior to this

0:29.8

change, eligibility was based on rules set by each sports national or international governing body.

0:36.7

President Trump signed an executive order this afternoon sanctioning the international criminal

0:41.3

court.

0:42.1

The measure includes freezing assets of court employees who work on ICC investigations of

0:47.9

U.S. citizens or allies such as Israel.

0:50.5

It also blocks them from traveling to the U.S.

0:53.7

The move comes as Israeli Prime Minister

0:55.7

Benjamin Netanyahu is visiting Washington. Last year, the ICC issued arrest warrants for the

1:01.8

prime minister and his former defense minister for alleged war crimes in Gaza, which they deny.

1:08.2

Neither the U.S. nor Israel recognized the court's authority.

1:12.1

Separately, it emerged today that Netanyahu gave President Trump a golden pager mounted on a wooden

1:17.9

stand during their meeting in Washington yesterday. It's a not-so-suttle nod to Israel's

1:23.6

operation in Lebanon last year when pagers and handheld radios were used to attack

1:28.8

members of Hezbollah.

1:30.8

In Panama, the country's president is pushing back on U.S. claims over transit fees for

1:35.7

the Panama Canal.

1:37.3

The U.S. State Department posted on social media last night that a deal was reached that

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