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🗓️ 20 December 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Support for NPR comes from NPR member stations and Eric and Wendy Schmidt through the Schmidt Family Foundation, |
| 0:07.4 | working toward a healthy, resilient, secure world for all. On the web at theshmit.org. |
| 0:15.2 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. |
| 0:20.1 | Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the U.S. can't impose a peace deal on Ukraine or on Russia. |
| 0:26.8 | President Trump's envoy is holding talks with the two sides in Miami today. Empires, Michelle Kellerman, has more. |
| 0:33.7 | Secretary Rubio says the U.S. is trying to negotiate a deal that both sides can live with, |
| 0:38.7 | but he wouldn't get into details or make any predictions about how long it will take |
| 0:43.0 | to end what he calls a bloody, nasty conflict. |
| 0:46.5 | He says it's costly for both sides. |
| 0:49.0 | The entire infrastructure of Ukraine is being destroyed almost as fast as it's being rebuilt. |
| 0:54.4 | Every week that goes by, the cost of rebuilding that country gets exponentially higher. |
| 0:58.8 | It is now becoming generational reconstruction. |
| 1:01.2 | Rubio says Trump wants to end the war because it is, quote, a waste of money, time, and talent. |
| 1:07.5 | Michelle Kellerman and PR News, the State Department. |
| 1:11.6 | Groups that provide tax assistance for immigrants and advocate for them are asking a federal |
| 1:17.1 | judge in Boston to stop immigration and customs enforcement from using sensitive data |
| 1:22.5 | it's received from the IRS and the Social Security Administration. |
| 1:26.6 | NPR's Jew-J Jaffe Block reports the Trump |
| 1:28.8 | administration has been collecting data to aid deportation efforts. Last month, the federal judge in |
| 1:35.2 | Washington, D.C., found it was likely unlawful when the IRS turned over the addresses of 47,000 |
| 1:41.3 | non-citizens to ICE in response to a request. Now, a separate lawsuit in Boston |
| 1:46.5 | federal court seeks to stop ICE from using the data it received. It also seeks to block the IRS |
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