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What did President Trump and Ukrainian President Zelensky discuss in Florida?
President Trump and Ukrainian President Zelensky met in Florida today over a revised 20-point ceasefire plan in Russia's nearly four-year-old war. Trump says they have the makings of a deal.
You can say 95 percent, but I don't like to say percentages. I just think we're doing very well. We're very We could be very close.
What is the impact of the winter storm on holiday travel in the Midwest?
There are one or two very thorny issues, very tough issues. But I think we're doing very well. We've made a lot of progress today, but really, we've made it over the last month.
Zelensky wants the U.S. to agree to security guarantees against further Russian aggression and says progress was made to that end.
How has the Trump administration affected anti-poverty programs in 2025?
We agreed that our teams will meet in upcoming weeks to finalize all discussed matters. And we agreed with President Trump that he will host us and maybe in Washington, European leaders and Ukrainian delegation. Yes, in January. And Ukraine is ready for peace.
Trump spoke to Russian President Putin before meeting with Zelensky. An intense cyclone is expected to dump heavy snow from the upper Midwest to the Great Lakes as people head home following the Christmas holidays, according to the National Weather Service.
The Weather Service forecasts more than a foot of snow across parts of the Upper Great Lakes and as much as two feet along the southern shore of Lake Superior.
What recent developments are occurring in Somaliland's relationship with Israel?
As of Sunday afternoon, nearly 180 flights, or more than half, were delayed at Chicago's O'Hare Airport. Nearly three quarters were delayed at Minneapolis-St. Paul International. The Transportation Security Administration expects Sunday to be the heaviest travel day of the holiday season, with nearly 2.9 million people in transit across the nation. The winter storm is expected to continue to move east, with freezing rain forecast for the interior of the Northeast later Sunday. A mix of snow, sleet and freezing rain is projected for northern New England by Monday morning. Frank Lankford, NPR News.
2025 will go down as a year of chaos for anti-poverty groups. Empire's Jennifer Ludden reports they've had to scramble to keep operating as the Trump administration targeted a string of safety net programs.
The turmoil started in January with a presidential order to freeze all funding.
What is the significance of NASA's Psyche mission to an unusual asteroid?
Then came a string of budget cuts, pauses, and some reversals. Kelly Haddis at community action group HapCap in Ohio said, says the biggest challenge is uncertainty. The panic and like the day-to-day not knowing is just really difficult. The group laid off some people and shifted others to part-time, including front desk clerk Kelsey Sexton.
It cut my paychecks completely in half. You know, we have a mortgage, a car payment. My husband was like, what are we going to do? And I'm like, I don't know.
Advocates see little relief ahead as major cuts to Medicaid and SNAP food aid take hold.
What are the implications of the Psyche probe's findings for understanding Earth's core?
Jennifer Ludden, NPR News, Logan, Ohio.
You're listening to NPR News from Washington. More than 20 Arab and African states are joining Somalia in condemning Israel's recognition of the breakaway region of Somaliland, calling it a blatant disregard to international law. Now Somalia is calling for an emergency United Nations Security Council meeting tomorrow. Somaliland plans to join the Abrams Accords, the normalization deals with Israel that started in the first Trump administration. Somaliland broke away from Somalia in 1991 after the collapse of Somali's central government amid a brutal civil war. A NASA mission to an unusual asteroid is now about 260 million miles from Earth. Topelka reports the probe, known as Psyche, recently had a bit of excitement during what is usually the boring phase of an interplanetary journey.
The excitement came from an opportunity to take images of an object with the prosaic name 3I Atlas.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:22
2
What did President Trump and Ukrainian President Zelensky discuss in Florida?
0:22–0:41
3
What is the impact of the winter storm on holiday travel in the Midwest?
0:41–0:57
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How has the Trump administration affected anti-poverty programs in 2025?
0:57–1:41
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What recent developments are occurring in Somaliland's relationship with Israel?
1:41–2:35
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What is the significance of NASA's Psyche mission to an unusual asteroid?
2:35–3:09
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What are the implications of the Psyche probe's findings for understanding Earth's core?
3:09–4:56