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Whatever contention people expected between President Trump and New York City Mayor Alex Zora Mamdani at their White House meeting today was not on display when they

were talking to reporters a short time ago.

I feel very confident that he can do a very good job. I think he's going to be, I think he is going

to surprise some conservative people, actually, and some very liberal people. He won't surprise

it because they already like him. Mdani, a Democratic socialist, acknowledge ideological differences between him and Trump,

but he says both focused on shared views today about affordability concerns.

President Trump's setting Thanksgiving as the deadline for Ukraine to accept the U.S.'s

28-point peace plan to end the war with Russia.

You know, I've had a lot of deadlines, but if things are working well, you tend to

extend the deadlines. But Thursday is a, we think, inappropriate times.

President Trump confirming the deadline to the Brian Kilmead show on Fox Radio.

The U.S. plan calls on Ukraine to make major land concessions and shrink its military.

Terms Ukraine and its European allies have rejected.

Meanwhile, the U.S. pledges a military response and reinstatement of sanctions if Russia invades Ukraine again,

as well as billions in recovery assistance from frozen Russian assets.

The Trump administration has published a technical specifications for a new crash test dummy design that is based on a female body.

Here's NPR's Camila Dominovsky.

Women are more likely to be injured in a vehicle crash than men.

And safety advocates have long argued one reason might be that required safety tests only use dummies based on the male body.

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