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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dan Roman. President Trump says he's hoping to schedule a trilateral meeting with himself and the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, and Ukraine's leader Vladimir Zelensky. NPR's Tamara Keith report Zelenskyy and European leaders were at the White House Monday in a follow-up to Trump's Alaska summit with Putin. At the start of the White House meeting, European leaders expressed cautious optimism, as President Trump outlined the contours of a potential peace deal to end Russia's war in Ukraine. In a very significant step, President Putin agreed that Russia would accept security guarantees for Ukraine.

And this is one of the key points that we need to consider. And we're going to be considering that at the table also, like, who will do what? But he added, there would likely need to be a possible exchange of territory where Russia has made gains. Trump said he hoped a trilateral meeting would be possible very soon, and Zelensky echoed that hope. Tamara Keith, NPR News. The Trump administration says cases of detainees held at the site dubbed alligator Alcatraz will now be heard by immigration judges at another South Florida detention center. NPR's Greg Allen reports the federal government announced that decision in response to a lawsuit.

As part of the lawsuit filed in Miami, attorneys said that they've been unable to determine which immigration court has jurisdiction over their client's cases. The Trump administration says it is now designated a separate federal facility in South Florida as the immigration court that will handle their cases. ACLU attorney Eunice Cho says that meets one of their key demands. This is a victory for people held at the facility, a victory for civil rights, and a victory for immigrants all over the country. Lawyers who represent detainees say they're still not able to meet with their clients

in a timely manner and confidential setting. The judge says he's still considering the request for preliminary injunction to force state and federal authorities to ensure detainees' rights to legal counsel are respected. Greg Allen, NPR News, Miami. The National Hurricane Center says Hurricane Aaron is turning northwestern in the Atlantic Ocean at seven miles per hour and its maximum sustained winds have slowed slightly to 120 miles per hour. The National Zurich Hurricane Center director Michael Brennan says people along the eastern seaboard

need to keep a close watch on Aaron as it moves north. of Aaron passing well offshore of North Carolina, between North Carolina and Bermuda, but the very large size of Aaron as it moves across the Western Atlantic is going to result in some very dangerous conditions. And we've now issued a storm surge watch for portions of the North Carolina Outer Banks from Cape Lookout all the way up to Duck. The evacuations that began Monday on Hatteras Island come at the beginning of the tourist season on a thin stretch of low-lying barrier islands that sit along the Atlantic Ocean that have become more vulnerable. You're listening to NPR News from Washington.

Missouri's Attorney General Andrew Bailey resigned Monday and will take a position as the deputy director of the FBI, serving alongside the current deputy director, Dan Bongino. Bailey will be joining the FBI at a time when the law enforcement agency is facing increased pressure to release information related to Jeffrey Epstein. Fish may experience something akin to pleasure, and they appear to work rather hard to feel it. Ari Daniel has more. The team of researchers wondered whether fish could feel good. So in the lab, they studied butterfly fish and a rass that cleans parasites off other fish.

The butterfly fish preferred being where it had interacted with the rass, even when it had no parasites. But when the butterfly fish was injected with naloxone, a drug that blocks opioid receptors, it lost interest in the cleaners, suggesting there might be a matter. may well be pleasure involved with the massage. And that this is mediated by those natural opioids in their brains. Kyle Maximino is a neuroscientist at the Federal University of the South and Southeast Parah in Brazil. Other researchers may need more convincing, but this could mean rethinking how we treat fish. For NPR News, I'm Ari Daniel. The Conservative Network Newsmax

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