WORLD Radio News - WORLD Radio News: 2-27-26 (1/3)

Episode Date: February 27, 2026

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With World Radio News, I'm Kent Covington. American and Iranian negotiators wrapped up indirect nuclear talks in Geneva Thursday without a deal. World's Harrison Waters reports. Negotiators from the Sultanate of Oman shuttled back and forth between American and Iranian diplomats,

trying to bring both sides to agreement on issues like sanctions relief and uranium enrichment. Iran's foreign minister Abasa Raachi told state media there was good progress after several hours of intense negotiation, but did not specify. Ahead of the talks, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he wasn't expecting much to change. Iran refuses to talk about ballistic missiles.

To us or to anyone, that's a big problem. Another round of talks between nuclear technicians is scheduled for Monday in Vienna. Reporting for World, I'm Harrison Waters. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz is blasting the Trump administration over its announcement that it is halting more than a quarter of a billion dollars in Medicaid funding to the state. Vice President J.D. Vance said the freeze will be enforced until Minnesota, quote, takes its obligations seriously, and Vance again said on Thursday. That is a scandal, and it's something that Joe Biden and congressional Democrats promoted with their open border, encouraged it, and funded it.

That comes after alleged fraudulent business practices by some Somali immigrants in the state. Vance and other Trump officials argue that the state has. had allowed the theft of federal funds meant for social welfare programs. But the Democratic governor called the move, his words, part of an illegal and unprecedented retribution campaign by the Trump administration. I would ask all of you, did you hear in there what specific steps they were going to stop the fraud or what the specific fraud they were talking about? They're using it as a general term in this, and they're not serious.

Walls also argues hundreds of thousands of people in Minnesota will lose access to health care because of this action. but the Trump administration says that will not happen. In New York City, a ceremony on Thursday marked 33 years since the World Trade Center bombings, which killed seven people, including an unborn child, and wounded thousands more. Charlie Mekish was director and CEO of the World Trade Center during the attack. 93 claimed the lives of seven injured thousands, and as the inscription on the original Ellen Zimmerman Memorial to the 93 bombing said,

and that was destroyed on 9-11, by the way, that it made victims of us all. A group of terrorists drove a van into a public parking garage below the Twin Towers detonating the explosives just afternoon on February 26th of 1993. The mastermind behind the attack, Ramsey Yusuf, was captured and convicted two years later. For World Radio, I'm Kent Covington.

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