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NPR News: 08-19-2025 5AM 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,

0:26.9

I'm Nauram. President Trump says he has begun to arrange a meeting between Ukrainian president,

0:32.4

Vladimir Zelensky, and Russian president Vladimir Putin, told him to discuss bringing an end to Russia's war in Ukraine.

0:39.3

He said he called Putin after yesterday's meeting at the White House with Zelensky.

0:43.5

European leaders were also present.

0:45.8

French President Emmanuel Macron praised the U.S. commitment to security guarantees for Ukraine

0:51.2

as a key outcome.

0:53.0

British Prime Minister Kier Starrmer also welcomed that

0:56.0

development. The agreement that the coalition of willing countries, that's 30 countries, already

1:01.8

working together on security guarantees, will now work with the U.S. on those guarantees coordinating

1:07.4

and we have already commissioned our teams to do the detailed further work on that.

1:14.0

But he said many issues remain, including the exchange of prisoners and the return of

1:19.2

Ukrainian children kidnapped by Russia during the war. The FBI is adding Missouri's Attorney General

1:25.7

to its ranks. As St. Louis Public Radio's Jason Rosenbaum reports

1:29.8

Andrew Bailey comes to the investigative agency after a controversial tenure in Missouri.

1:35.5

Bailey is resigning in September to become the FBI's co-deputy director alongside Dan Bongino.

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