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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Nora Rahm.
What recent developments occurred in the U.S.-Russia-Ukraine talks?
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is in Geneva for talks with Ukrainian and European officials on the U.S.-backed plan to end Russia's war in Ukraine. Ukraine says the 28-point proposal favors Russia. It requires Ukraine to give up land not occupied by Russia, allows limits on Ukraine's military, and abandon its hopes to join NATO. Ukraine's allies also want revisions. Rubio called the first session of talks productive and meaningful, probably the most promising so far. He said they are narrowing their differences and getting closer to something that both Ukraine and the U.S. can accept.
This will ultimately have to be signed off by our presidents, although I feel very comfortable about that happening, given the progress we've made. And then obviously there's the Russian side of the equation. But again, we think we have some pretty substantial insights over the last nine months into some of the things that are really important to them.
Some U.S. lawmakers said yesterday Rubio had told them... The plan was not drafted by the U.S., but was a Russian wish list. Rubio suggested online that the senators were mistaken. Brazil's President Lula da Silva expressed concern today over the U.S. military buildup near Venezuela. Kate Bartlett reports.
De Silva, who was speaking on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Johannesburg, said there was no reason to have a war. He warned against repeating the mistake of what happened between Russia and Ukraine and said, quote, once a shot is fired, it is hard to predict how it will end. The U.S. has conducted more than 20 strikes on vessels in the Caribbean and Pacific it says were drug boats, killing dozens of people. The U.S. has also sent an aircraft carrier strike group, Navy warships, and stealth aircraft to the area near Venezuela. Trump accuses Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro of leading a terrorist drug cartel. Kate Bartlett, NPR News, Johannesburg.
Public colleges and universities in Indiana will soon have to show the state how new degree programs promote what lawmakers call American values. Ethan Sandweiss of member station WFIU has more.
The new degree proposal form issued by state government asks how programs, quote, cultivate civic responsibility and commitment to the core values of American society. Emily Price, communications director for the Indiana Commission for Higher Education, says that the directive was announced at the group's meeting earlier this month. Indiana recently eliminated hundreds of degrees with low numbers of graduates, forcing the creation of many new consolidated programs. This announcement also follows the Trump administration's announcement that universities that sign a compact agreeing to certain policy priorities will get preferential treatment for federal funding. So far, the administration has not sent the compact to any Indiana schools.
For NPR News, I'm Ethan Sandweiss in Bloomington, Indiana.
This is NPR News. AAA estimates more than 80 million Americans will travel at least 50 miles from home for the Thanksgiving holiday, more than last year, which was itself a record. Most of them, about 73 million, will be on the highways. In air travel, the FAA expects this to be the busiest Thanksgiving travel season in 15 years. Archaeologists in Wisconsin have discovered a very, very old canoe, estimated to be more than 5,000 years old. Sarah Lear of Wisconsin Public Radio reports.
Over the last several years, the Wisconsin Historical Society says it's found a total of 16 ancient canoes lurking at the bottom of Lake Mendota in south-central Wisconsin. Tamara Thompson is a maritime archaeologist who helped lead those discoveries. She suspects that, for millennia, Indigenous people returned to that section of the lake. She says they may have been stashing their boats for later by burying them under sediment near the shoreline. What we're seeing really is a parking lot. The cluster of canoes includes a red oak vessel discovered earlier this year. It's believed to be 5,200 years old.
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