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NPR News: 12-28-2025 5PM EST

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🗓️ 28 December 2025

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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.

0:05.7

Ukrainian President Zelensky met with President Trump at Mara Lago in Florida today,

0:11.1

along with their delegations, for talks on a revised 20-point peace plan.

0:16.4

Trump says Russia's nearly four-year-old war would either end or go on for a long time.

0:21.3

But head of the meeting, Trump praised Zelensky.

0:24.5

This gentleman has worked very hard, and he's very brave, and his people are very brave.

0:30.2

I mean, what they've gone through, no nation, very rarely has a nation ever had it.

0:36.7

Trump also spoke with Russian President Putin ahead of the meeting with Zelensky.

0:41.7

A continuing sticking point is Russia's wish for Ukraine to give up land in exchange for a ceasefire deal.

0:48.5

Something Zelensky has said won't happen.

0:51.3

Zelensky said this weekend Putin wasn't serious about peace after Russia pounded

0:55.9

key for hours with missiles and drones, killing at least two people and wounding dozens of others.

1:02.0

He is seeking security guarantees from the United States against future Russian aggression.

1:07.8

An intense cyclone is expected to dump heavy snow from the upper Midwest to the Great Lakes

1:13.3

as people head home following the Christmas holidays.

1:16.9

That's according to the National Weather Service.

1:19.2

MPIR's Frank Langfit has more.

1:21.4

The Weather Service forecasts more than a foot of snow across parts of the Upper Great Lakes

1:25.7

and as much as two feet along the southern shore

1:28.6

of Lake Superior. As of Sunday afternoon, nearly 180 flights or more than half were delayed

1:34.8

at Chicago's O'Hare Airport. Nearly three quarters were delayed at Minneapolis-St. Paul

1:39.6

International. The Transportation Security Administration expects Sunday to be the heaviest travel day of the holiday season, with nearly 2.9 million people in transit across the nation. The winter storm is expected to continue to move east, with freezing rain forecasts for the interior of the northeast later Sunday. A mix of snow, sleet, and freezing rain is projected for Northern New England by

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