--:-- Host (Dale Willman): This message comes from NPR sponsor, FX's The Lowdown, starring Ethan Hawke. This new crime drama follows quirky journalist Lee Raybon, whose obsession with the truth always gets him into trouble. FX's The Lowdown, all new Tuesdays on FX. Stream on Hulu.
--:-- Host (Dale Willman): Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Willman. President Trump is scheduled to meet Monday with top congressional leaders from both parties. As NPR's Claudia Grisalos reports, the meeting will take place one day before the government is set to shut down without a bipartisan budget deal in place.
--:-- Claudia Grisalos: After President Trump canceled a meeting with Democratic leaders last week, he's now agreed to a new meeting. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Speaker Mike Johnson, and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries are set to visit with the president.
--:-- Claudia Grisalos: Democrats have said they need stopgap legislation to address Affordable Care Act subsidies that are set to expire by year's end. Schumer and Jeffrey said in a joint statement they are resolute in avoiding a shutdown while also addressing the rising health care prices.
--:-- Claudia Grisalos: Both said they want to negotiate a bipartisan spending agreement that meets the needs of the American people.
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--:-- Host (Dale Willman): At least four people have died following intense flooding in parts of Arizona this week and at least two other people are still missing. The city of Globe, Arizona, declared a state of emergency after about 1,000 propane tanks washed away from a distribution center and caused a major concern downtown.
--:-- Paul Kempton: It's about three inches full of mud and water about halfway up the wall and all the equipment has been underwater. Oh my goodness. And so to us it looks like a complete loss.
--:-- Host (Dale Willman): On Friday, more than 200 flights were canceled at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport.
--:-- Host (Dale Willman): Iran has recalled its ambassadors to Britain, France and Germany over moves by those countries to reinstate international sanctions over the regime's nuclear pursuits. As Terry Schultz reports, sanctions are back in effect after a last-ditch effort by China and Russia to prevent them failed.
--:-- Terry Schultz: The Iranian regime called the decision to restore U.N. Security Council sanctions against Tehran irresponsible. A month ago, Britain, France and Germany warned Iran snapback sanctions would apply if Tehran did not take steps to halt its nuclear program, including the resumption of cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency part of the 2015 deal under which Iran agreed to curtail its advancement.
--:-- Terry Schultz: President Trump pulled the U out of that agreement in 2018 China and Russia proposed an extension of the moratorium but it failed to get support The sanctions include an embargo on conventional weapons, a global asset freeze, and travel bans on Iranian officials.
--:-- Terry Schultz: For NPR News, I'm Terry Schultz.
--:-- Host (Dale Willman): President Trump says he's sending troops to Portland, Oregon soon, and he says he's authorizing full force if necessary to handle what he calls domestic terrorists there. But Oregon's Democratic governor says Trump is abusing his authority by ordering troops into a city she says is doing just fine on its own.
--:-- Host (Dale Willman): The city's police says the city is doing well.
--:-- Host (Dale Willman): This is NPR News.
--:-- Host (Dale Willman): Eight former death row prisoners have been transferred to the most restrictive facility in the U.S. prison system. As George Hale from member station WFIU reports, President Biden had reduced their federal death sentences to life without parole.
--:-- George Hale: Trump blasted Biden's decision and ordered the Justice Department to house the prisoners under conditions reflecting the, quote, monstrosity of their crimes.
--:-- George Hale: Now the U.S. Prison Bureau is relocating eight of them to ADX Florence, the harshest prison in the federal system. Attorneys argue the move amounts to collective punishment for Biden decision something none of the prisoners had any control over
--:-- George Hale: Inmate location records show that of the eight men now at ADX six were sentenced to death for killing fellow prisoners and guards in Texas and West Virginia The eighth prisoner, Edward Fields, is a former Oklahoma prison guard.
--:-- George Hale: All were being held at a U.S. prison in Indiana where the first Trump administration carried out a record-breaking 13 executions.
--:-- George Hale: For NPR News, I'm George Hale in Bloomington, Indiana.
--:-- Host (Dale Willman): There were some upsets at the top of college football Saturday. No. 6 Oregon beat No. 3 Penn State in double overtime 30-24. No. 4 LSU lost to No. 13 Mississippi 24-19, and Ty Simpson passed for 276 yards and two touchdowns and ran for another score as No. 5 Georgia lost to No. 17 Alabama.
--:-- Host (Dale Willman): Fernando Mendoza, meanwhile, threw a 49-yard touchdown pass with less than two minutes to play in the game to give No. 11 Indiana a 20-15 win over Iowa, and Arkansas Pine Bluff beat Alcorn State 24-20.
--:-- Host (Dale Willman): I'm Dale Willman, NPR News.
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