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NPR News: 05-26-2025 7PM EDT

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🗓️ 26 May 2025

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0:00.0

This is Fresh Air contributor Anne Marie Baldinado.

0:03.5

I talked with actor Colescola about their hit Broadway play, Oh Mary.

0:09.2

Cole plays an unhinged, alcoholic Mary Todd Lincoln, who's an aspiring cabaret performer.

0:16.2

If that makes no sense, that's part of the point.

0:19.1

You can find my interview on the Fresh Air podcast.

0:23.7

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Hurst. The Kremlin is playing down President

0:30.1

Trump's criticism of a weakened barrage of Russian attacks across Ukraine that killed at

0:35.8

least 12 people and injured scores of others.

0:39.2

And Pierce Charles Mainz has more.

0:40.8

In comments posted to social media, Trump said Russian president, Vladimir Putin, had, quote,

0:45.6

gone absolutely crazy and was shooting missiles and drones into Ukraine for no reason whatsoever.

0:51.2

Trump also said he was considering additional new sanctions on Russia as a result.

0:55.7

In response, Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov thanked Trump for his efforts to end the war in Ukraine,

1:01.0

but suggested Trump's latest criticism was, quote, emotional overload at a tense moment in wider

1:05.9

peace negotiations. Following a lengthy phone call with Putin last week, Trump declared Moscow and Kiev were ready to immediately start negotiating a ceasefire.

1:15.0

They have not, and critics accuse the Kremlin of dragging out talks as it improves its battlefield position.

1:20.7

Charles Mainz MPR News, Moscow.

1:23.4

British police have arrested a 53-year-old British man after his minivan plowed into a crowd of people

1:29.2

celebrating Liverpool's soccer club win today.

1:33.3

Dozens were injured. Nick Cyril is the chief fire officer.

1:36.8

On arrival, the crews were met with numerous injured people and four persons trapped under a vehicle.

1:44.1

Our crews rapidly lifted the vehicle,

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