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| 0:00.0 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton. Iran and the U.S. held indirect talks in Oman today as |
| 0:08.0 | President Trump threatens to use force to compel Iran into a deal over its nuclear program. The |
| 0:13.8 | negotiations appear to be a restart of discussions over Tehran's nuclear program after multiple rounds were |
| 0:18.9 | held last year before Israel launched a 12-day war on Iran. |
| 0:23.0 | The aircraft carrier USS, Abraham Lincoln, and other warships are off the coast of Iran in the |
| 0:27.9 | Arabian Sea. Newly revealed arrest records show that a high-profile federal immigration rate on a |
| 0:33.6 | Chicago apartment building, mostly targeted squatters in the building, not Venezuelan |
| 0:38.5 | gang members. The raid happened last September, NPR's Sergio Martinez Beltran reports. |
| 0:44.0 | It's become a symbol of President Trump's aggressive immigration tactics. |
| 0:47.7 | The court documents were first reported by Propublica and are included in a motion filed in an |
| 0:52.4 | ongoing case challenging warrantless arrests in Chicago. |
| 0:55.5 | In two arrest records, the government states the operation in the South Shore apartments was, |
| 1:00.0 | quote, based on intelligence that there were illegal aliens unlawfully occupying apartments in the building. |
| 1:06.0 | There is no mention of criminal gangs. |
| 1:09.0 | Last year, and again this week, a spokesperson for DHS told NPR in a statement that two |
| 1:13.9 | people arrested in the raid were confirmed terrorists and members of Tren de Arawa. |
| 1:18.4 | 35 other migrants without legal status, but with no connection to the gang, were also arrested. |
| 1:24.3 | Some had criminal records. |
| 1:26.3 | Sergio Martinez-Beldran, N PR News. A racist post on President |
| 1:30.5 | Trump's truth social account depicting former President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama as monkeys |
| 1:35.6 | has been taken down. The White House initially defended the post, but it was deleted after |
| 1:40.7 | widespread backlash. And Obama's spokesperson says the former president has no response. |
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