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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Nora Rahm.
Chapter 2: What concerns do Democrats have about President Trump's influence on midterm elections?
The midterm elections are nine months away, and some Democrats are concerned that President Trump will try to undermine the public's confidence in the results. The party holding the White House often loses ground in the Congress in the midterms. Democratic Senator Adam Schiff says Trump will do everything he can to suppress the vote.
He hasn't brought prices down. There's chaos and killing in American streets by ICE agents. The public has turned against him. In every election we've had since his election, the voters have swung wildly against him. And as he said at that prayer breakfast, his ego cannot stand another loss.
He was interviewed on ABC's This Week. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said today, He's imposing sanctions on some foreign manufacturers of components for Russian drones and missiles used against Ukraine. NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports.
Producing this weaponry would be impossible without critical foreign components, which the Russians continue to obtain by circumventing sanctions, Zelensky wrote on X. He said Ukraine is introducing new sanctions against companies that continue to supply such components, wittingly or unwittingly, as well as against the missile and drone manufacturers.
Targets include China, Panama, and UAE-based companies. Russia strikes Ukraine nearly every night, though the frequency and intensity has dropped recently, say experts, as its supplies are running low. Experts also say recent missiles shot at Ukraine were produced this year, proof that Russia has gone through much of its original stockpile. Eleanor Beardsley, NPR News, Poltava, Ukraine.
Russian authorities say they have a suspect in last week's attempted assassination of a senior military intelligence officer. They say a Russian citizen was detained in Dubai and is now in custody in Moscow. Vladimir Akseyev serves as the first deputy head of Russia's military intelligence service. He was shot three times in his apartment building on Friday. He is expected to survive.
Team USA has won its first medal of the Winter Olympics. Skier Breezy Johnson took the gold in the women's downhill race in Italy. NPR's Becky Sullivan reports.
Any downhill race requires taking risks and pushing your limit, and Breezy Johnson's run looked just like that. She hit a top speed of 80 miles per hour and finished in one minute, 36.1 seconds, which was just four hundredths of a second ahead of silver medalist Emma Eicher of Germany. Italy's Sofia Goggia won bronze.
It's the first Olympic medal for Johnson, who missed her chance in 2022 when she badly injured her knee just before the Games in Beijing. Lindsey Vonn was already in the middle of an incredible career comeback when she tore her left ACL just over a week ago and decided to race in Sunday's race anyway.
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Chapter 3: What sanctions is Ukraine imposing against foreign manufacturers?
But with no desire to stop after 50, he's been credentialed since by the NFL to take photos and eagerly anticipates his 60th big game.
50 wouldn't have been bad either. I mean, that's still a pretty good number, but 60 is an even better number.
John Beaver was a 15-year-old high school student when he worked Super Bowl I, having learned under his dad, Vern Beaver, the Green Bay Packers team photographer at the time. For NPR News, I'm Greg Eklund.
Puerto Rican singer Bad Bunny provides the halftime entertainment. Last weekend, he won the Grammy for Album of the Year, the first time it was awarded to a record sung entirely in Spanish. This is NPR News.