Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston.
The Pakistani Prime Minister, welcome Vice President J.D. Vance and U.S.
Envoy Steve Whitcoff and Jared Kushner in Switzerland today, where talks are set to resume between the U.S.
And Iran.
Pakistan and Qatar are helping mediate the talks,
which come amid tensions over the Strait of Hormuz and renewed fighting involving Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.
Iranian, U.S. And regional officials are hoping to advance a tentative agreement.
The Russian appointed governor of Occupied Crimea is suspending fuel sales to the public and commercial businesses.
The BBC's Nick Beak reports the move is in response to growing Ukrainian attacks on supply lines and infrastructure.
Moscow appointed officials in Occupied Crimea had already introduced limits on the sale of fuel,
but this appears to be the most significant restriction so far.
Petrol will be reserved for the military and for government agencies only.
Ukraine's drone strikes are having an impact beyond Crimea.
This week there was a major attack on a refinery in Moscow for which the Kremlin has promised to retaliate.
Researchers and other data advocates are calling on the Trump administration to revoke
a new ban on a certain type of data privacy protection at the Census Bureau.
NPR's Hansi Lo Wang reports.
Federal law requires the Census Bureau to keep people anonymous in its statistics.
The Trump administration has banned one of the main ways a bureau has done that.
Adding what's known as statistical noise to make certain data fuzzy,