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NPR News: 08-19-2025 4AM EDT

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🗓️ 19 August 2025

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0:00.0

Congress has voted to eliminate federal funding for public media.

0:03.9

So what does that mean for the future?

0:05.7

We're figuring out the way forward.

0:07.9

One thing we do know is that the future for public media depends on you.

0:12.6

Join other listeners who've stepped up to support public radio with NPR Plus.

0:17.6

Sign up and get a ton of great perks.

0:20.6

Go to plus.npr.org. Live from NPR news in Washington,

0:27.1

I'm Dan Roman. President Trump says he's hoping to schedule a trilateral meeting with himself

0:33.0

and the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, and Ukraine's leader Vladimir Zelensky.

0:38.8

NPR's Tamara Keith report Zelenskyy and European leaders were at the White House Monday

0:44.3

in a follow-up to Trump's Alaska summit with Putin.

0:47.5

At the start of the White House meeting, European leaders expressed cautious optimism,

0:51.9

as President Trump outlined the contours of a potential peace deal

0:55.9

to end Russia's war in Ukraine. In a very significant step, President Putin agreed that Russia

1:02.0

would accept security guarantees for Ukraine, and this is one of the key points that we need to

1:08.4

consider, and we're going to be considering that at the table also,

1:11.9

like, who will do what? But he added there would likely need to be a possible exchange of territory

1:17.2

where Russia has made gains. Trump said he hoped a trilateral meeting would be possible very soon,

1:24.2

and Zelensky echoed that hope. Tamara Keith, NPR News. The Trump administration says

1:30.5

cases of detainees held at the site dubbed alligator Alcatraz will now be heard by

1:36.3

immigration judges at another South Florida detention center. NPR's Greg Allen reports the federal

1:42.8

government announced that decision in response to a lawsuit.

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