Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dave Mattingley. President Trump's special envoy, Steve Whitkoff,

is among those who'll be sitting down with Iranian officials today in Oman. The focus will be Iran's

nuclear program. The White House wants Tehran to give up its nuclear ambitions. Last June, the U.S. military struck three

Iranian nuclear sites. Currently, there's a large buildup of American naval assets in the Middle

East. Ahead of the talks in Oman, Whitkoff was in the region for negotiations to end Russia's

war with Ukraine, as NPR's Charles Maines reports. Wittkoff calls the two days of talks constructive, the most immediate outcome, the release of some 300 soldiers in another prisoner exchange between Russia and Ukraine.

Whitkoff also says the U.S. and Russia have agreed to reestablish a military dialogue channel, suspended following Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022, with Witkoff,

calling it crucial to achieving and maintaining peace. Yet left unclear whether Russia and Ukraine

or any closer to a deal either could accept, months of U.S. diplomatic efforts have bogged down

over Russia's maximalist demands on Ukrainian territory, and Ukraine's desire for ironclad security

guarantees from the West. Charles Main's NPR News, Moscow.

Former President Bill Clinton and his wife, former senator and secretary of state Hillary

Clinton, have agreed to testify as part of a congressional investigation into the late

convicted sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein.

NPR's Elena Moore says the Clintons are sparring with Republican lawmakers over how they'll

testify and whether the depositions will be public.

The Clintons agreed earlier this week to testify, but there's been a war of words since then.

In a statement on X, Hillary Clinton lobbies for

their upcoming testimonies to be public instead of videotaped, arguing for transparency and

claiming that despite the Clinton's engaging in good faith with investigators, Republicans have

quote, moved the goalposts and turned accountability into an exercise in distraction. In response, the House Oversight Committee

accuses the two prominent Democrats of trying to spin the facts, pointing to email exchanges

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