Good morning. Today on Legal Docket, the rise and fall of affirmative action.

Every time the government uses racial criteria purporting to bring the races together, someone gets excluded.

And the Monday money beat today economist David Bonson on Fed Chair Jay Powell's rate cut

hints and the central bank's bold economic experiments. Later, the world history book this month,

the 35th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. I think that's what the ADA did

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Up next, Kent Covington with today's news. Many nations and world leaders joined Ukrainian

President Vladimir Zelensky Sunday and marking Ukraine's Independence Day, 34 years after it declared

independence from the Soviet Union.

In Paris, the Eiffel Tower was aglow with blue and yellow lights, the colors of the Ukrainian flag.

And in Kiev, Zelenskyy greeted senior European officials and Canada's prime minister at a defense

forum. We are very thankful to your leaders, governments, and to yourself.

Thank you so much for your long-term support for Ukraine. Zolensky awarded U.S. envoy Keith Kellogg with

the Ukrainian Order of Merit First Class. He said that was for Kellogg's work to help

strengthen Ukraine and bilateral relations.

Zelensky also thanked President Trump for his letter. In it, Trump praised the country's

quote, Unbreakable Spirit and Courage. He also added that the United States supports a negotiated

settlement that leads to a durable, lasting peace that ends the bloodshed and safeguards Ukraine's sovereignty.

But Democratic Senator Jack Reed says we are no closer to a negotiated settlement after recent U.S.

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