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| 0:00.0 | Usher, Yo-Yo Ma, Boy Genius, Shaka Khan, Billy Elish, Weird Owl, |
| 0:05.0 | one thing all these big stars have in common, they've all played behind NPR's Tiny Desk. |
| 0:10.4 | And if you enter NPR's Tiny Desk contest between now and February 10th, you could be next. |
| 0:16.9 | Unsigned musicians can find out more and see the official rules at npr.org slash tiny desk contest. |
| 0:25.3 | Live from NPR news, I'm Lakshmi Singh. |
| 0:29.0 | President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will hold talks at the White House soon. |
| 0:34.8 | A short time ago, Trump took reporters questions about post-war recovery for millions |
| 0:39.1 | of people in Gaza. He says Palestinians should relocate someplace nicer, such as in Egypt or Jordan. |
| 0:46.2 | I think they should get a good, fresh, beautiful piece of land, and we get some people to put up the |
| 0:51.9 | money to build it and make it nice and make it habitable and |
| 0:57.6 | enjoyable and make it a whole. You say they don't want to leave though. Palestinians say they don't want to leave. |
| 1:02.5 | I don't know how they could want to stay. It's a demolition site. When asked whether the U.S. would |
| 1:08.9 | be willing to help pay for relocating Gossens, he says that there are plenty of other people in the area who have a lot of money, apparently referencing nations such as Saudi Arabia and Iran. |
| 1:20.6 | Trump signed new executive orders in the Oval Office this afternoon. |
| 1:23.9 | One is focused on reimposing maximum pressure on Iran. The president indicated he was, |
| 1:29.7 | quote, torn about signing it. He said, quote, hopefully we are not going to have to use it very much, |
| 1:35.0 | end quote. Two groups of FBI agents are suing the Justice Department, the separate lawsuit |
| 1:40.9 | seeking to block the Justice Department from making public the names of agents who worked on January 6th Capitol riot cases. |
| 1:47.3 | Here's NPR's Ryan Lucas. |
| 1:48.6 | One of the lawsuits was filed by the FBI Agents Association and the other by a group of nine anonymous FBI agents. |
| 1:55.3 | In recent days, the Justice Department has sought to obtain a list of FBI officials who worked on the Capitol Riot investigation |
| 2:01.5 | and or cases involving now President Trump. Both lawsuits view this as a retaliatory measure |
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