What recent events were highlighted at the Kennedy Center Awards?
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Live from NPR News in New York City, I'm Dwahili Saikow-Tao. Ahead of this year's Kennedy Center Awards show on Sunday, President Trump presented the honorees with newly redesigned medals at an Oval Office ceremony hours ago.
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump.
And I'm proud to be an American man.
Wearing a tuxedo and bow tie, Trump welcomed this year's recipients, actors Sylvester Stallone, singers Gloria Gaynor and George Strait, Broadway star Michael Crawford and the rock band Kiss.
We can hardly imagine the country music phenomena without its king of country or the American disco without its first lady.
Trump described the group as the most accomplished and renowned class of Kennedy Center honorees ever assembled. President Trump's new national security strategy is critical of Europe in several ways, one of them being its support for Ukraine. We get more from Terry Schultz in Brussels.
The strategy says Europe is in economic decline and faces impending civilizational erasure. It blames the European Union in part for undermining political liberty and sovereignty, including freedom of speech. It says within a few decades, certain NATO countries will become majority non-European due to excessive immigration.
The German Marshall Fund's Ian Lesser says the document is unlikely to be widely appreciated.
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