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NPR News: 02-21-2023 6AM ET

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🗓️ 21 February 2023

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NPR News: 02-21-2023 6AM ET

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0:00.0

Live from NPR News, I'm Khorov Akulman, President Biden is in Poland today. This follows

0:05.5

what was initially an unannounced trip to Ukraine. In Warsaw, he'll make it clear. The

0:10.4

United States will continue to stand with Ukraine for as long as the fight takes.

0:14.6

And Piers Asma Holland has more from Warsaw.

0:17.3

President Biden will be speaking in Warsaw near the same site where he spoke 11 months

0:22.0

ago when Russia began its invasion of Ukraine. Biden is back in Poland on NATO's Eastern

0:27.7

flank to make the case for why this fight continues to matter beyond the borders of Ukraine.

0:33.7

The White House says Biden will speak to how the U.S. has rallied the world to support

0:37.4

Ukrainians as they defend their freedom. The White House sees this war as part of the

0:41.8

broader battle between authoritarianism and democracy.

0:45.8

Biden's remarks come on the same day Russian President Vladimir Putin is giving a big speech

0:50.4

about the war. Biden has multiple intended audiences, European allies of course, but

0:55.5

also American voters at home. Asma Kha'alid and Piers News Warsaw.

1:00.6

Russian President Putin has concluded his state of the nation address the Russian Constitution

1:05.4

requires that he give one annually. But Putin never did that last year as Russian troops

1:10.5

faced setbacks in the war in Ukraine. Today, Putin is blaming the West, claiming they

1:16.0

started the war, not Russia. The first anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine is this Friday.

1:22.8

And tomorrow, the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments in two cases that could dramatically

1:27.2

transform the fundamental structure of the Internet and social media companies.

1:32.1

NPR's Nina Tottenberg has more.

1:34.5

At issue is a 1996 law that treats Internet platforms as conveyors of information, not

1:40.6

speakers or publishers. The lower courts for decades have uniformly ruled that the statute

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