Akela Sherrills remembers the day in 1992 when the Bloods and Crips gangs in his Watts

neighborhood agreed to a ceasefire.

We had a barbecue.

It was like it became a family reunion.

I mean, we had a three-decade war, you know, so the release was just extraordinary.

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The U.S. and Iran have opened talks today in Oman.

NPR's Jackie Northam reports some of the negotiations concern Iran's nuclear program.

There were plenty of changes to location and time and which

countries would participate ahead of these negotiations in Oman's capital city, Muscat. On the table

for discussion is Iran's nuclear program, its support for proxies such as Hezbollah and Hamas,

and limiting its arsenal of ballistic missiles. These are the first official talks

the U.S. and Iran have held since the U.S. bombed three Iranian nuclear facilities last June.

Iran is in a weaker position than a year ago when Israel devastated its air defenses last summer.

The U.S. has been building up its naval and air defense systems as a show of force in the region.

Jackie Northam, NPR News. President Trump has unfailed a new website. It's called Trumprx.gov. Consumers can search it for discounts on some brand-name medications, but they have to pay in cash to get these instead of using their

health insurance. Trump is doing this by offering a carrot to drug makers. He'll lower certain

tariffs on them if they lower certain drug prices in the U.S.

Under the most favored nation agreements, my administration has negotiated, the United States will pay the lowest

price paid by any other countries. So we're taking the lowest price paid for drugs. We will pay

equal to whatever the lowest price anywhere in the world, that's the price that you're going to be

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