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What is the proposed cease‑fire on energy targets in the Russia‑Ukraine war?
Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the US would welcome a ceasefire on energy related targets and Russia's war in Ukraine.
We think that would be a great idea. An energy infrastructure uh ceasefire in which you're not uh Ukraine's infrastructure is not being targeted, uh Russian uh uh uh energy supplies are not being targeted as well. Um it's an ideal outcome.
President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky discussed such a ceasefire when they met on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly Tuesday. Trump announced last week that Russia and Ukraine had agreed not to strike energy targets.
How did President Trump and Zelensky discuss the energy cease‑fire at the UN?
But that idea fell apart the following day when Russia hit gas stations in Kyiv and Ukraine, bombed a Russian oil refinery. French President Emmanuel Macron gave his last address to the UN General Assembly Tuesday, MPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports that after ten years in office Macron will step down next spring when France elects a new president.
When he was first elected in two thousand seventeen at the age of thirty nine, Macron was considered brilliant but lacking experience. Today he ranks among the top leaders on the world stage. He has rallied Europe behind Ukraine.
Why is French President Macron’s final UN address significant for Europe and Palestine?
And a year ago at the UN General Assembly, he led the way in recognizing Palestinian statehood in an effort to revitalize a two-state solution. Macron told the gathered leaders that an age of imperialism, arrogance, and brute force without rules had returned. The French president appealed for multilateralism, telling the assembly the role of the United Nations is more critical than ever if we want to quote live in an international civilized society and not a jungle. Eleanor Beardsley in Pierre News, Paris.
Now to Jackson, Mississippi, where Nolan Wells' family is pushing back after a grand jury declined to recommend charges in his death. Wells was the black teenager who was found dead in early July on an island just off the Mississippi coast. Elise Gregg of the Gulf States Newsroom and Mississippi Public Broadcasting has more on his family's response.
At a press conference in Georgia, Wells' parents vowed to keep pushing for answers.
What are the unanswered questions surrounding the death of Nolan Wells in Mississippi?
That's after a grand jury unanimously returned a report saying they found no credible evidence of criminal activity in Wells' death. His parents and attorneys say that report still doesn't explain exactly how their son died, nor does it answer lingering questions from the autopsy. Here's Wells's mother, Christine Wells Wandsley.
My question is how can a jury come to the conclusion? Of drowning. Дитконь дама то і And despite hearing many inconsistencies,
the jury heard from over forty witnesses and reviewed evidence ranging from GPS data to videos from the island where Wells was found. For NPR News, I'm Elise Gregg in Jackson, Mississippi.
Why is Senator John Curtis urging a probe into Donald Trump Jr.’s business ties and wedding payments?
This is NPR News. Utah Republican Senator John Curtis is calling for an investigation into President Trump's eldest son, Donald Trump junior. Curtis has written a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee urging the committee to look into businesses owned by Trump Jr. and payments by a Russian oligarch for his wedding celebrations in the Bahamas. Congressional Democrats launched their own investigation into the wedding payments last week. A new study finds alcohol use by Americans declined slightly in 2024, but the results vary by generation. And among older generations, alcohol use continued to increase, as MPR's Yuki no Gucci reports.
Alcohol consumption, including heavy use, increased dramatically during the pandemic and remains slightly elevated for the U.S.
How have alcohol‑consumption trends changed across generations from 2018‑2024?
population overall. But the study, which looked at consumption between 2018 and 2024, found younger generations, Gen Z and millennials alone have steadily decreased consumption since the pandemic. In contrast, among Generation X and those born earlier, alcohol Alcohol consumption continued to increase. Consumption for men has returned to near pre pandemic levels, but less so for women. Authors of the study in the Annals of Internal Medicine say targeted messaging is needed.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the proposed cease‑fire on energy targets in the Russia‑Ukraine war?
0:00–0:40
2
How did President Trump and Zelensky discuss the energy cease‑fire at the UN?
0:40–1:15
3
Why is French President Macron’s final UN address significant for Europe and Palestine?
1:15–2:14
4
What are the unanswered questions surrounding the death of Nolan Wells in Mississippi?
2:14–2:58
5
Why is Senator John Curtis urging a probe into Donald Trump Jr.’s business ties and wedding payments?
2:58–3:48
6
How have alcohol‑consumption trends changed across generations from 2018‑2024?
3:48–4:28
7
What’s driving the latest moves in European stocks and oil prices today?
4:28–5:03