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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Christian Wright. The U.S. and Iran are preparing for high-level talks, expected to start in Pakistan tomorrow. A two-week ceasefire reached earlier this week has been fragile, with Israeli strikes in Lebanon continuing. And today, Kuwait accuses Iran of launching drone attacks despite the ceasefire. Vice President Vance is traveling to Islamabad to lead the U.S. delegation. War between the U.S., Israel, and Iran has been going on for more than five. weeks. NPR's D. Parvas went to the border of Turkey and Iran to hear what Iranians have to say about the ceasefire. The first two days of the ceasefire have been shaky with strikes of varying severity happening in Lebanon, Iran, Israel, and the Gulf Arab states. The Iranians I spoke to the border didn't want to be named fearing reprisal upon their return, and none of them believed that the temporary truce would hold. The positions they've stated are too far apart from each other, said one man. After two weeks, it's highly likely that there will be worse,

said a 30-year-old from Tehran. D. Paraz, NPR News, Vaughan, Turkey. EPA administrator Lee Zeldin delivered the keynote speech at a conference for those who say climate change is not a problem. He championed the Trump administration's efforts to roll back climate policies, as NPR's Lauren Summer reports. Zeldon spoke at a conference of the Heartland Institute, a free market group that denies that humans are contributing to climate change.

Scientific research shows that burning fossil fuels has increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to the highest level in human history. That traps heat, raising temperatures and making weather events like hurricanes more extreme. Zeldon celebrated the EPA's decision to stop regulating carbon dioxide as a pollutant. He says that policy was government overreach and focused too much on the worst-case scenarios. Lauren Summer, NPR News. Researchers say climate change has pushed a beloved species toward extinction. The Emperor Penguin is now listed as endangered. The International Union for Conservation of Nature made the declaration.

Emperor penguins in Antarctica rely on sea ice for many purposes, but it is melting rapidly. The Antarctic first seal was also moved to the endangered category. The four Artemis II astronauts are on track to return home tonight after a 10-day mission around the moon and back. Splashed down in the Pacific off Southern California is scheduled for 8.07 p.m. Eastern time. The crew ventured to the far side of the moon, traveling deeper into space than any humans had before. Pilot Victor Glover says the mission sets the stage for future exploration. This is just the beginning, and there's nothing that we can't accomplish when we pull all of our differences together, not in spite of them, but when we pull them together and we work on something big for the good of everyone.

NASA says on their return the crew hit the halfway mark between the moon and Earth last night. This is NPR News in Washington. A new study appears to show how the brain is able to imagine things it can't see. NPR's John Hamilton reports on the research in the journal Science. Researchers wanted to understand how memory and imagination work together in the brain. Faroon Wadia of Cedar Sinai Medical Center in Caltech says it takes both functions to accomplish something people do every day. I can look at an object in the world around me, but I can also close my eyes and imagine the object. So Wadia and a team studied the activity of more than 700 neurons in 16 people.

The scientists found that the same neurons that fire when someone looks at an object also fire when a person imagines that object. The finding supports earlier evidence from brain scans suggesting that seeing and imagining activate the same circuits. John Hamilton and PR News. The future of Ticketmaster will be in the hands of a jury today. The antitrust trial in New York focuses on whether Live Nation illegally, monopolized the concert industry at the expense of fans, artists, and venues. Dozens of state attorneys general brought the suit to break up Live Nation and its subsidiary ticket master. Early in the trial, Live Nation reached a settlement with the Justice Department,

but the states moved ahead with their case. Global oil prices have risen amid that shaky ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran. Brent Crude, the International Standard, rose above $97 a barrel today. The status of the major shipping route, the Strait of Hormuz, is unclear. In the U.S., the national average cost of regular gas is $4.15 a gallon today, a penny more than yesterday. This is NPR.