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NPR News: 08-08-2025 6PM EDT

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🗓️ 8 August 2025

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0:00.0

It's that time of gear again. Planet Money Summer School is back. This semester with help from professors,

0:05.6

policy experts, and yes, even a Nobel laureate, we're diving into how government and the economy

0:10.9

mix and asking the big questions like, what role should government play in our economy? Does government

0:16.6

intervention help or hurt and how big should the government be? That's on Planet Money Summer School from NPR, wherever you get your podcasts.

0:25.1

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.

0:29.7

Emory University in Atlanta says there's an active shooter situation on campus

0:34.3

and it's warning people to shelter in place.

0:37.4

Law enforcement are on the scene. The school is

0:39.2

on lockdown. This is a developing situation. President Trump says he'll meet with Russian President

0:44.9

Putin soon, and that the two agreed on a date and a site for the face-to-face meeting to talk about a

0:50.7

ceasefire to Russia's war in Ukraine. Europe wants to see peace. The European leaders want to see peace.

0:57.3

President Putin, I believe, wants to see peace.

1:00.5

And he says Ukrainian President Zelensky also wants to see peace,

1:04.2

but Trump says both sides will have to relinquish land.

1:08.1

There'll be some swapping of territories to the betterment of both.

1:12.9

This, as Trump hosted the leaders of Azerbaijan and Armenia at the White House,

1:17.3

for the signing of a joint resolution, a framework for a peace deal aimed at ending decades of

1:23.1

bloody conflict between the two countries. The police forces of several federal agencies have mobilized

1:29.5

in Washington, D.C. after a former Trump administration staffer was badly beaten last week in an

1:35.3

attempted carjacking, after Trump took to social media saying crime in D.C. is out of control.

1:41.4

But as N.P.R. Meg reports, crime in the city is actually falling.

1:45.6

Motor vehicle theft in the district is at the same level it was at this time last year.

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