There's been a lot of attention on loneliness lately.

16% of Americans report feeling lonely all or most of the time.

The former Surgeon General even declared a loneliness epidemic.

On It's Been a Minute, we're launching a new series called All the Lonely People,

diving deep into how loneliness shows up in our lives and how our culture shapes it.

That's on the It's Been a Minute podcast on NPR.

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Nora Rahm.

British Prime Minister Kirstormer is hosting a meeting today in London for European, Canadian, and Ukrainian leaders on the next step towards ending the war in Ukraine.

They've been rattled by Friday's stormy meeting in the Oval Office between President Trump

and Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky.

Starmor told the BBC, the UK will work on a ceasefire plan to present to the U.S.

We've now agreed that the United Kingdom, along with France,

and possibly one or two others, will work with Ukraine on a plan to stop the fighting, and then

we'll discuss that plan with the United States. So in those calls on Friday night, through the

meeting yesterday into the calls again last night,

I think we've got a step in the right direction.

In the U.S., Secretary of State Marco Rubio told ABC that Russian President Vladimir Putin

should be involved in the process.

No one here is claiming Vladimir Putin is going to get the Nobel Peace Prize this year,

or that he should be the man of the year of the Humanitarian Association. What we're arguing here is he has a very large country.

They're in full war footing.

They're cranking out weapons now at a war footing pace.

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