Chapter 1: What recent developments occurred in Ukraine regarding the peace plan?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. U.S. and Ukrainian officials are holding talks in Switzerland after yesterday's release of the U.S.-drafted peace plan. NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports many Ukrainians see the proposal as capitulation.
In the western city of Ternopil, bulldozers sift through rubble looking for bodies at an apartment block hit by Russian missiles this week. More than 30 people were killed, including several children. Others are still missing. Since Russia's full-scale invasion, thousands of Ukrainian civilians have been killed.
They're proposing some kind of peace for us, without us.
Resident Inga Shkarupa says the U.S.
Chapter 2: How is the U.S. Supreme Court involved in Texas' congressional map controversy?
peace plan is pro-Russian and done behind Ukraine's back. We're paying the price.
People are dying. Cities are getting destroyed. And everybody's doing nothing towards Russia. Nothing.
Shkaryupa says people here feel betrayed by the U.S. Eleanor Beardsley, NPR News, Ternopil, Ukraine.
Meanwhile, after criticism that the peace plan favors Russia too much, Trump today says it's not his final offer to President Zelensky and that he'd be open to changes without saying what that could be. The U.S.
Chapter 3: What were the outcomes of the COP30 Global Climate Conference?
Supreme Court has temporarily restored Texas Republicans' new congressional map that was blocked earlier this week by a lower federal court. The Texas Newsroom's Blaise Gainey has more.
The lower federal court had ruled challengers are likely to prove in a trial that the Texas map is an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. But Governor Greg Abbott and state attorneys appealed, and on Friday night, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito responded by putting a temporary hold on the lower court ruling until Supreme Court justices can weigh in.
Texas NAACP President and lawyer Gary Bledsoe represents plaintiffs seeking to strike down the new maps.
The better and fairer practice has been to bring the whole court in on very important issues like this one.
A final decision from the Supreme Court may come as soon as Monday. For the Texas Newsroom, I'm Blaise Gainey.
The United Nations COP30 Global Climate Conference in Brazil wrapped up today without a formal agreement on phasing out the use of fossil fuels, the main driver of global warming. COP30 President André Correa de Lago says climate talks have to continue.
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Chapter 4: What allegations were made against a Spanish bishop by the Pope?
We know some of you had greater ambitions for some of the issues at hand. I know the youth civil society will demand us to do more to fight climate change. I want to reaffirm that I will try not to disappoint you during my presidency.
The United States was absent from this year's talks after the Trump administration refused to send a delegation. You're listening to NPR News. Pope Leo today accepted the resignation of a Spanish bishop who is under investigation for allegedly sexually abusing a young seminarian in the 1990s.
76-year-old Cadiz bishop Rafael Zorna submitted his resignation last year when he turned 75, the normal retirement age for bishops, but it wasn't accepted until a newspaper reported that he was under investigation. The Diocese of Cadiz denies the accusations against Zorna Oza, Leo hasn't yet named a temporary leader of the diocese.
Haiti's living through one of the darkest periods of its time, but this week, something extraordinary broke through the tension.
Chapter 5: How did Haiti's national football team achieve historic World Cup qualification?
The men's national football team qualified for the World Cup for the first time in 52 years. Harold Isaac has more.
For a few hours on Tuesday evening, Haiti felt different. Haitians poured out of their homes in thousands, celebrating a historic moment. The national team, the Grenadiers, are headed to the World Cup. The Grenadiers sealed their qualification with a 2-0 win over Nicaragua, becoming the first team ever to reach the World Cup without hosting a single home game.
Gangs have turned much of Port-au-Prince into a war zone, forcing the squad to train abroad. Players posted emotional videos pleading with gangs and politicians to let them return home safely. Still, for a nation battered by crisis, the moment feels sacred. For NPR News, I'm Harold Isaac in Port-au-Prince.
Chapter 6: What impact does Haiti's current crisis have on its national football team's journey?
And I'm Janine Herbst, NPR News in Washington.