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--:-- Dale Willman: Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Willman.
--:-- Dale Willman: Federal immigration officials have detained the superintendent of Iowa's largest school district. Iowa Public Radio's Isabella Liu reports.
--:-- Isabella Liu: Des Moines Superintendent Ian Roberts was arrested after fleeing a traffic stop initiated by ICE agents. Roberts is from Guyana in South America, but grew up in Brooklyn.
--:-- Isabella Liu: ICE says he received a final removal order last year. The agency also says there were prior weapon charges and a loaded gun was found in his car.
--:-- Isabella Liu: Des Moines School Board Chair Jackie Norris says she hasn't been able to verify new information, but praised how Roberts led the district.
--:-- Jackie Norris: We do not have all the facts. There is much we do not know. However, what we do know is that Dr. Roberts has been an integral part of our school community since he joined over two years ago.
--:-- Jackie Norris: Roberts led the district since 2023 as Des Moines' first black superintendent.
--:-- Isabella Liu: For NPR News, I'm Isabella Liu in Des Moines.
--:-- M Kirk Siegler: More than three dozen former national park superintendents are pleading with the Trump administration to close all parks if there a government shutdown.
--:-- M Kirk Siegler: As I report, the Park Service kept some parks open during a government shutdown in the first Trump administration.
--:-- M Kirk Siegler: In a letter to the President Interior Secretary, Doug Burgum, 40 retired superintendents at parks ranging from Denali to Big Bend to Shenandoah urged that all parks be closed if the Republican-controlled Congress can't pass a budget and there's a government shutdown.
--:-- M Kirk Siegler: They say past shutdowns in which parks stayed open with the skeleton staff resulted in increased vandalism and habitat destruction and other public safety risks.
--:-- M Kirk Siegler: The Interior Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but the possible shutdown comes amid a major strain facing America's national parks.
--:-- M Kirk Siegler: President Trump has cut about a quarter of the park's permanent staff, just as many reported record visitation this summer.
--:-- Dale Willman: Iran's foreign minister says diplomacy with the U.S. is a, quote, pure dead end.
--:-- Dale Willman: Friday, he rejected a move by European countries to reimpose U.N. sanctions over its nuclear program.
--:-- Michelle Kellerman: NPR's Michelle Kellerman has our reports.
--:-- Michelle Kellerman: Russia and China have failed for a second time to prevent U.N. sanctions from snapping back.
--:-- Michelle Kellerman: Iran foreign minister Saeed Abbasarachi says it was the U that pulled out of the nuclear deal in the first place and he says the three European countries that were also part of the deal have no right to reimpose sanctions.
--:-- Michelle Kellerman: Today's crisis is the direct result of U.S. withdrawal and Europe's inaction. The U.S. betrayed diplomacy.
--:-- Michelle Kellerman: Arachi says Iran has had, in his words, a terrible experience negotiating with the U.S.
--:-- Michelle Kellerman: Iran was about to hold more talks when Israel and the U.S. bomb nuclear sites earlier this year.
--:-- Dale Willman: It was a good day on Wall Street Friday with stocks closing up across the board. You're listening to NPR News.
--:-- Steve Futterman: An autopsy has detected that the man accused of killing four people last month in a building that included the National Football League headquarters was suffering from a brain disorder known as CTE.
--:-- Steve Futterman: 27-year-old Shane Tamura targeted the NFL offices. He accused the league of concealing the potential dangers of football.
--:-- Steve Futterman: After the shootings, Tamura killed himself. In a note, he said, study my brain, please.
--:-- Steve Futterman: The medical examiner found he was suffering a low stage level of the degenerative brain disorder, CTE.
--:-- Steve Futterman: Tamura played youth football here in the L area and continued through high school
--:-- Chris Nowinski: Chris Nowinski is co of the Concussion Legacy Foundation
--:-- Chris Nowinski: If you start at six and you play through high school no researcher who's paying attention to this is now surprised to find somebody who played that long having CTE.
--:-- Steve Futterman: Tamura shot himself in the chest, allowing for a complete study of his brain.
--:-- Dale Willman: For NPR News, I'm Steve Futterman in Los Angeles.
--:-- Dale Willman: Federal health officials are warning consumers not to eat a pasta meal sold by Walmart stores across the nation.
--:-- Dale Willman: The makers of market-side linguine with beef meatballs and marinara sauce say the product may be contaminated with listeria.
--:-- Dale Willman: That's the same bacteria tied to a recall of fettuccine alfredo this summer.
--:-- Dale Willman: That outbreak killed three people and sickened at least 17 others.
--:-- Dale Willman: Pakistani security forces raided a militant hideout in that country's northwest region on Friday that killed at least 17 Pakistani Taliban fighters.
--:-- Dale Willman: Three officers were also wounded.
--:-- Dale Willman: The raid follows a similar incident on Thursday in which 13 Pakistani Taliban fighters were killed in a shootout.
--:-- Dale Willman: I'm Dale Willman, NPR News.
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