Ukraine Battlefield, New Immigrant Detention Center, Kennedy Center Honors

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🗓️ 14 August 2025

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Military escalations have taken place in Ukraine in recent days, even as President Trump prepares to meet Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday. A new El Paso immigration detention center billed as the country's largest will start accepting migrants this weekend. And President Trump will host this year’s Kennedy Center Honors.

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0:00.0	President Trump meets with Russia's President Vladimir Putin in Alaska tomorrow.
0:06.3	The summit's goal is to end the fighting in Ukraine.
0:08.7	Those talks go on, though. The war keeps ongoing.
0:11.0	Does Ukraine have any hope that Putin will agree to a ceasefire?
0:14.3	I'm Michelle Martin. That's Lila Fadol, and this is up first from NPR News.
0:20.8	The Trump administration is spent
0:22.5	more than a billion dollars to build a massive
0:24.6	detention camp near Mexico's border.
0:27.0	What did people living nearby think about it?
0:29.1	Also, President Trump is taking over the Kennedy Center honors.
0:33.0	He picked the honorees himself, and he's hosting the show.
0:35.8	I used to host the Apprentice Finaleies, and we did rather well with that.
0:40.4	So I think we're going to do very well.
0:41.9	Is he at the center of his vision for the arts?
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