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Okay, so does this sound like you? You love NPR's podcasts, you wish you could get more of all your favorite shows, and you want to support NPR's mission to create a more informed public. If all that sounds appealing, then it is time to sign up for the NPR Plus bundle. Learn more at plus.npr.org. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dan Ronan. President Trump told business leaders in Davos, Switzerland via video conference he wants oil producing nations from OPEC, including Saudi Arabia, to lower prices. He says if the price of oil came down, it would bring an end to the Russia-Ukraine war because Russia is using

a large amount of its oil revenue to finance military actions in Ukraine. Our efforts to secure a peace settlement between Russia and Ukraine are now hopefully underway. It's so important to get that done. That is an absolute killing field. Millions of soldiers are being killed. Nobody's seen anything like it since World War II. Trump also told world leaders they must produce more goods in America,

or he intends to impose tariffs on those items imported into the United States. Mexico is preparing to be on the receiving end of mass deportations under President Trump. A federal program called Mexico Embraces You is creating a system to take back Mexican nationals who are deported from the U.S. Nina Kavinsky has more.

Mexico is setting up nine centers along the border with the U.S. to provide medical attention, food, and shelter to Mexican citizens who are deported. There will be at least one shelter in each of Mexico's six border states. That includes one in Tijuana, south of California, one in Ciudad Juarez, south of Texas, and one in Nogales, south of Arizona. Buses will be available to transport people from the border to those centers and from the centers to their home states. President Claudia Sheinbaum says the country will welcome Mexicans required to leave the U.S. with open arms. According to the Pew Research Center, about 4 million of the 11 million immigrants

in the U.S. illegally in 2022 were from Mexico. For NPR News, I'm Nina Kravinsky in Hermosillo, Mexico. Marco Rubio is preparing to set off on his first foreign trip as Secretary of State next week. NPR's Michelle Kalaman reports it is to Central America. State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce says the Secretary is making it a priority to work with countries in the Western Hemisphere if we're going to be safe and prosperous and in good shape, Bruce tells reporters, we have to have an interest in our neighbors in South

and Central America. She says Secretary of State Rubio recognizes that. The trip is expected to include a stop in Panama, where officials have protested President Trump's talk about the U.S. taking back the Panama Canal. Secretary Rubio is also expected to visit Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic to talk about migration and supply chains. Michelle Kelliman, NPR News, the State Department. President Trump Friday will visit two locations devastated by natural disasters.

First going to western North Carolina to see hurricane damage. Later in the day he'll fly cross-country to southern California to tour the damage of the wildfires. From Washington, you're listening to NPR News. President Trump signed an executive order Thursday that he said will remove past From Washington, you're listening to NPR News. President Trump signed an executive order Thursday that he said will remove past government policies that act as barriers towards artificial intelligence innovation. The executive order did not name the existing policies that he says are stalling AI development, but the order puts in place a 180-day timeline to develop an AI action plan.

In 2024, the Biden White House issued its own AI guidance that said the federal agencies must show their AI tools are not harming the public. Trump's order revises and reissues many of the Biden administration policies. Pterosaurs were among the largest flying creatures ever to live and some species had wingspans as wide as fighter jets. NPR's Jonathan Lambert reports on a new fossil find that suggests that young

pterosaurs may have been hunted by ancestors of the crocodiles. The lives of pterosaurs are still somewhat mysterious. Despite their gargantuan size, pterosaur bones were actually quite fragile, and so fossils are rare. But one fossil that popped up in Alberta, Canada, the neck vertebrae of a juvenile pterosaur, is giving researchers a window into these flying reptiles' ancient lives.

The bone had bite marks that matched the teeth of a crocodilian species that lived at the same time, around 76 million years ago. The find, published in the Journal of a crocodilian species that lived at the same time, around 76 million years ago. The find, published in the Journal of Paleontology, might be evidence of an ancient fight, or that the crocodilian ate the pterosaur after it died. Jonathan Lambert, NPR News. On Wall Street, all three major index closed on the up on Thursday.

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