This is VOA News. Via remote, I'm Marissa Melton.
The U.N. nuclear watchdog's chief arrived in Tehran on Friday amid hopes of reviving a 2015 accord between Iran and world powers. Britain says a deal among the parties is "close."
The visit by International Atomic Energy Agency head Rafael Grossi, who is set to meet Iranian officials Saturday, is seen as critical toclinchingagreement over a return to the nuclear deal and comes in parallel to negotiations in the Austrian capital tosalvagethe accord.
Iran's Atomic Energy Organization announced Grossi's arrival in Tehran Friday. He is to meet with Iran's chief [ah] on Saturday, [ah] the chief of the nuclear organization.
Grossi wrote on Twitter on Friday, quote, "This is a critical time but a positive outcome for everyone is possible."
The next few days are widely seen as crunch time for the negotiations on Iran's nuclear program - the latest round of negotiations started in Vienna in late November.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday reinstated the death penalty sentence for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The 6-3 ruling overturns a federal appeals court decision to void the sentence.
A 2020 ruling by the First Circuit Court of Appeals [ah] overturned Tsarnaev's [death, ah] federal death penalty and instead sentenced the Kyrgyzstan-born terrorist to life without parole.
The appeals court said the trial judge improperly excluded evidence that showed Dzhokhar was heavily influenced by his older brother Tamerlan, who also took part in the bombing and later died in a shootout with police.
The attack on April 15, 2013, killed three spectators and injured more than 260 others.
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A Capitol rioter from Idaho has gotten four years in prison for attacking police. AP correspondent Mike Gracia has more.
A 68-year-old logger from Nampa, Idaho, has been sentenced more than four years in federal prison for his actions as part of the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol last year.
Duke Edward Wilson pleaded guilty last September to assaulting, resisting or impeding officers and obstructing an official proceeding. Prosecutors said Wilson attacked at least three officers in a tunnel in the U.S. Capitol Building and he hit a police officer with a pipe during the riot.
Wilson told U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth he didn't remember any of his actions. Lambert sentenced Wilson to 51 months in prison, the maximum allowed under Federal Sentencing Guidelines.
I'm Mike Gracia.
A federal court ruled Friday that the United States can continue to expel certain migrants who cross the U.S.-Mexico border unless they would be returned to a country where they might face persecution or torture.
The ruling by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit allows a rule, known as Title 42, implemented during the Trump administration at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, to largely stay in effect.
The case was brought by a group of migrants who were represented by the American Civil Liberties Union.
The court ruled the migrants, who entered the United States without authorization, can be expelled from the United States immediately but not to a country where their "life or freedom would be threatened" or to a country where they would likely be tortured.
Hiring by U.S. businesses picked up last month as the omicron variant of the coronavirus faded and more Americans started to spend time beating out, shopping and staying in hotels despite climbing inflation.
U.S. employers added 678,000 jobs in February. This is according to the Labor Department on Friday.
This gain underscores the American [de...] economy's solid health. The unemployment rate dropped from 4 percent to 3.8 percent in January, sending joblessness to its lowest level since the pandemic began two years ago this month.
In a statement on Friday, U.S. President Joe Biden said his plan, quote, "to build 'America' (our economy) from the bottom up and the middle out is working."
Software giant Microsoft announced Friday that it is suspending "all new sales of Microsoft products and services in Russia" over that country's invasion of Ukraine.
The company said it was stopping many aspects of its business in Russia in compliance with governmental sanctions decisions.
Other companies that have announced they're ending business with Russia are Apple, Nike and Dell Technologies.
Via remote, I'm Marissa Melton, VOA News.
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