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  • Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corva Coleman,

  • civil rights leader and former presidential candidate Jesse Jackson has died.

  • That's according to a statement from his family and the group he founded,

  • the Rainbow Push Coalition of Chicago.

  • Jackson was 84 years old.

  • There are two sets of high-level talks today in Geneva.

  • The Trump administration is sending representatives to both special envoy Steve Whitcoff and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner.

  • They've held indirect talks with Iranian diplomats over Tehran's nuclear weapons program.

  • NPR's Jackie Northam says next in Geneva the envoys are attending talks with Ukrainian and Russian representatives.

  • Whitcoff and Kushner are addressing these two major crises on the very same day.

  • And there are even lower expectations of a breakthrough with the Ukraine talks and the Iran ones.

  • You know, this is only recently Ukraine and Russia have done face-to-face meetings.

  • And that could indicate some pressure by Trump.

  • You recall during his presidential campaign, he said he'd stop the war on one day.

  • Now he says he wants to deal by June, but there is no real end to the war in the site.

  • And it's set to enter its fifth year next week.

  • NPR's Jackie Northam reporting.

  • The Department of Homeland Security remains partially shut down.

  • Congress has not passed a funding bill yet.

  • That means TSA agents across the country are again working without pay.