Dwahili Saikow-Tao

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Ahead of this year's Kennedy Center Awards show on Sunday, President Trump presented the honorees with newly redesigned medals at an Oval Office ceremony hours ago.

Wearing a tuxedo and bow tie, Trump welcomed this year's recipients, actors Sylvester Stallone, singers Gloria Gaynor and George Strait, Broadway star Michael Crawford and the rock band Kiss.

Trump described the group as the most accomplished and renowned class of Kennedy Center honorees ever assembled.

President Trump's new national security strategy is critical of Europe in several ways, one of them being its support for Ukraine.

We get more from Terry Schultz in Brussels.

Hong Kong is pressing ahead with the highly managed legislative elections on Sunday.

That's despite the fact that authorities are still searching for human remains after a massive blaze killed at least 159 people in one of the deadliest fires in a century in the region.

NPR's Emily Fang reports.

And you are listening to NPR from New York City.

In the West Indian state of Goa, officials there say at least 23 people have died after a fire engulfed a popular nightclub in Arpora village along the coast.

Goa's chief minister said on social media that he visited the incident site and ordered an immediate investigation.

saying, quote, those found responsible will face the most stringent action under the law.

Eyewitnesses told the BBC that the midnight fire was concentrated around the kitchen area on the ground floor.

Police said the dead include mostly club staff, but tourists are also among the victims.

Waymo, the autonomous ride-hailing service, plans to file a software recall after some of its cars illegally passed stop school buses.

NPR's Jeff Brady reports a federal investigation is also underway.