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Live from NPR News in Washington, on Corora-Va Coleman, NATO defense officials are

meeting today to talk about security guarantees for Ukraine. That's if there's a ceasefire

between Russia and Ukraine. The topic came up this week when President Trump met European

leaders at the White House. But today, Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov criticized

any effort to work on security arrangements that does not include Russia.

Lavrov says Russia will look after its own interests, quote, firmly and harshly.

William Taylor served as the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine under both presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama.

He says the Russians are continuing to drag out any efforts to work toward peace.

What the Russians do and have done over and over and over is stall, and it allows their military to continue to bash, batter, bombard the Ukrainians, which they've done.

No concrete proposals have yet emerged from the White House meeting on the war in Ukraine

this week.

President Trump is renewing his criticism of the Smithsonian Institution, and Pierreznetta

Ullaby reports.

In his post, the president called the Smithsonian Institution

out of control, all caps. He said museums throughout Washington and all over the country are

essentially the last remaining segment of woke. Again, the last word, all caps. The White

House earlier this month announced plans to audit eight Smithsonian museums

to ensure what it called alignment with the president's directive to celebrate American

exceptionalism, remove divisive narratives, and, quote, restore confidence in our shared

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