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NPR News: 05-24-2025 5PM EDT

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🗓️ 24 May 2025

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0:00.0

Know that fizzy feeling you get when you read something really good, watch the movie everyone's been talking about, or catch the show that the internet can't get over.

0:08.1

At the Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast, we chase that feeling four times a week.

0:12.4

We'll serve you recommendations and commentary on the buzziest movies, TV, music, and more.

0:18.1

From lowbrow to highbrow to the stuff in between.

0:21.9

Catch the Pop Culture Happy hour podcast from NPR. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. It's the second

0:29.7

day of a prisoner swap between Russia and Ukraine with nearly 700 exchanged since yesterday.

0:36.4

This after at least 15 people were injured overnight in a

0:39.3

Russian attack on Kiev. MPiess-Kisqqis reports Ukrainian families are anxiously awaiting the

0:45.5

return of their loved ones. Anton Kobilnik stepped off the bus draped in Ukraine's blue and yellow flag.

0:56.6

The soldier was emaciated and pale after three years in Russian captivity.

1:01.9

He told NPR he cannot wait to hug his mother.

1:05.4

I am finally in Ukraine, he said, but I won't truly feel I'm home until I'm next to my mom in our cottage.

1:16.5

Nearby, 18-year-old Melena Moros holds a photograph of her dad, Yevhin.

1:21.6

He disappeared in February of this year.

1:23.7

I wish I had told him, I love you, dad. Joanna Kikisis, NPR News, northern Ukraine.

1:33.3

The Trump administration has abruptly dismissed dozens of staffers on the National Security Council

1:38.9

and another shake-up of the president's foreign policy team. As NPR's Greg Myrie reports, it comes just three weeks

1:46.0

after Marco Rubio took over as Trump's national security advisor. The staffers were told they were

1:51.5

losing their positions at 4.30 on Friday afternoon and given a half hour to leave the White

1:56.7

House. This is according to sources who spoke to NPR on condition of anonymity. The National

2:02.7

Security Council works closely with the president on foreign policy and usually has about

2:07.7

200 to 300 staffers depending on the administration. Trump named Marco Rubio as his national

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