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Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Willman. President Trump posted on social media that his phone call Friday with Russian President Volodymyr Zelensky was very interesting and cordial. The conversation between the two leaders comes as Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin are planning another in-person meeting. Empire's Deepa Shivam reports.
Trump says that he has told both Zelensky and Putin that it's time to make a deal to end the war. The president has been adamant that there's momentum to end the war after he brokered a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas.
The war in the Middle East was far more complicated. We got that one done. I think we have a good chance. I think President Zelensky wants it done, and I think President Putin wants it done.
He and Zelensky discussed the U.S. providing Ukraine Tomahawk missiles, which Trump has said could put pressure on Putin to come to the negotiating table. But he seems to have walked that back after the chat with Putin. No decision has been made about providing those weapons.
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Trump says he plans to meet with Putin in Hungary in the next two weeks. Deepa Shivaram, NPR News, the White House.
Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy says damage to remote coastal villages hit by flooding last weekend is so severe that many of the 2,000 people who were displaced won't be able to return home for at least 18 months. The remnants of a typhoon hit the region with the same force as a Category 2 hurricane last weekend. First responders spent the past week carrying out the largest airlift rescue operation in the state's history. Coast Guard Petty Officer Teddy Kirsch was there evacuating residents.
This being actually my first ever live rescue. The first woman, the first person I ever hoisted in the basket was a woman and her baby. And I will never forget the feeling of holding that baby while that woman was getting it, getting out of the basket, setting her down in her chair and then handing her back her baby. That was something I will never forget.
A landmark agreement to cut emissions from global shipping has been postponed for at least a year. The deal was negotiated over the past decade and then blocked by the Trump administration this week. NPR's Camilla Dominovsky has our reports.
The giant ships that move cargo around the world mostly run on oil. Alternative fuels could cut emissions and help the global fight against climate change. The International Maritime Organization has spent years negotiating a deal that would set legally binding rules to cut emissions. It was almost finalized this week. Then the U.S. started working to undo the deal. President Trump called the effort to cut emissions a, quote, green new scam tax that would raise costs. The U.S. is the world's largest oil producer and, along with other large producers like Russia and Saudi Arabia, managed to push the final decision on the rules back by at least a year. In a post on X, Secretary of State Marco Rubio called the vote a huge win for the president.
Camila Dominovsky, NPR News.
Stocks finished up across the board on Friday, and you're listening to NPR News. GOP leaders in New York are disbanding the state's Young Republicans chapter. As Jimmy Veilkind from member station WNYC reports, it's the latest fallout from a leaked group chat in which Young Republicans sent racist and anti-Semitic messages.
NYGOP Chair Ed Cox says the vote to suspend the Young Republicans was unanimous. He says the vile language in the chat, quote, has no place in our party or its subsidiary organizations. Politico reported this week that former New York State Young Republicans Chair Peter Junta led a group chat that included racist comments and jokes referencing Adolf Hitler and the Holocaust. Junta has apologized and lost his job after the messages were made public.
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