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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dan Ronan. President Trump says he's directed members of his administration to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin and with Ukrainians. This in hopes of finalizing a peace deal between the two nations. NPR's Deepa Shivaram reports.
What peace efforts is President Trump pursuing with Russia and Ukraine?
Trump said in a post on social media that Special Envoy Steve Witkoff will meet with Putin in Moscow and Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll will meet with the Ukrainians. The president says he won't meet with Putin or Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky until a peace deal is in its final stages. Trump was supposed to meet with Putin last month in Hungary, but the meeting was scrapped with Trump announcing new sanctions on Russia. The ongoing war between Ukraine and Russia has been a point of frustration for Trump, who claims he's ended several other wars this year. He repeatedly says the war between Ukraine and Russia should have been easier to end. Deepa Shivaram, NPR News, the White House.
Democratic Senator Mark Kelly is under investigation by the Pentagon for what Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth claims is a possible breach of military law. This after Kelly, a military pilot and astronaut, joined five other lawmakers creating a video calling on troops to defy what they called illegal orders. Now, the Pentagon tonight says it wants the complaint reviewed by December the 10th. Kelly says President Trump and Hegseth are acting like bullies.
He's certainly outrageous and unpredictable. I don't think he understands the Constitution. I'm not so sure Pete Hegseth does either. Neither of them seem to understand the Uniform Code of Military Justice because we recited what is in the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and now he wants to court-martial me under the Uniform Code of Military Justice. It just doesn't make any sense.
Hegseth says Kelly is the one being investigated by the Pentagon because he's the only lawmaker to formally retire from the Pentagon. Brazil's former president Jair Bolsonaro has started to serve his 27-year prison sentence for trying to stage a coup after failing to be re-elected in 2022. Julie Canero reports.
Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes declared Bolsonaro's case closed after his defense exhausted appeals against his conviction. The former president's preemptive arrest on Saturday is now definite, and his sentence of 27 years and three months is counting. The far-right leader is now confined to a small room with a single bed, a private bathroom, a TV set and a desk in the federal police headquarters in Brasília. Bolsonaro's lawyers had requested his house arrest, citing poor health, but Moraes did not concede. This closes a turbulent chapter after a historic trial in Brazil, which was condemned by the Trump administration and led to U.S. sanctions and the unprecedented conviction of a former president for trying to overthrow the government.
For NPR News, I'm Julia Carneiro in Rio.
And this is NPR. D.C. 's Mayor Muriel Bowser says she will not seek re-election following months of high-profile clashes with President Trump. WAMU's Alex Coma has more.
Bowser said Tuesday she felt she'd accomplished everything she set out to do since winning the job back in 2014. That includes securing a new stadium deal for the Washington Commanders and overseeing a surge in housing construction in the city. But her tenure was also dogged by President Trump's frequent interventions in the city's affairs, which she referenced in a video announcing her decision.
We also brought our city back from the ravages of a global pandemic and summoned our collective strength to stand tall against bullies who threaten our very autonomy.
Advisors say Bowser's weariness with dealing with Trump, who took over the city's police force this summer, contributed to her decision to decline a re-election bid. For NPR News, I'm Alex Coma in Washington, D.C.
President Trump said tonight it may be necessary to extend the Affordable Care Act subsidies that are set to expire at the end of the year, this to reach an agreement on health care legislation.
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