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Chapter 2: What are the latest updates on the Russia-Ukraine conflict?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dave Mattingly. At this hour, a delegation from Moscow led by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is meeting with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and other top U.S. officials in Saudi Arabia. They're said to be discussing negotiations to end Russia's war in Ukraine. Moscow's full-scale invasion began three years ago this month.
Chapter 3: Who is involved in the US-Russia discussions in Saudi Arabia?
Alongside Rubio are President Trump's National Security Advisor Mike Waltz and the president's envoy, Steve Witkoff. The talks followed Trump's 90-minute phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin last week. Trump has since said he believes Putin wants to end the fighting in Ukraine. Officials from Kiev are not part of the talks in Riyadh. Thousands of people across the U.S.
Chapter 4: Why are Americans protesting President Trump on President's Day?
marked President's Day by protesting President Trump and his Doge team, led by billionaire Elon Musk. As NPR's Shandalise Duster reports, one of the demonstrations against Trump's government downsizing efforts took place in the nation's capital.
Amid frigid temperatures and 20-mile-per-hour wind gusts, large crowds gathered at the Capitol reflecting pool. Chanting, do your job, protesters demanded lawmakers take action against mass firings at governmental agencies.
Suzanne, a resident of Maryland who requested that her last name be withheld because she fears retaliation against her family, says she and her husband, who is a federal employee with a financial regulatory agency, are worried he will be laid off.
Chapter 5: What is the 50-50-1 movement?
Currently his paychecks are going through, but we're looking to plan B's and alternatives on how to support our family, our children.
The protests were organized by the 50-50-1 movement, which means 50 protests, 50 states, one movement. Shondalese Duster, NPR News.
Delta Airlines says 18 people were injured in yesterday's plane crash at Toronto's Pearson International Airport. The plane flipped over as the commuter flight was arriving from Minneapolis in windy weather. NPR's Jackie Northam says there were 80 people aboard.
Videos on social media show the Delta Airlines commuter plane upside down on the snowy tarmac shortly after landing in Toronto. Emergency crews worked to put out a fire while passengers and crew got off, according to Toronto police. Since the flight took off from Minneapolis, National Transportation Safety Boards in the U.S. and Canada will work together to determine the cause of the crash.
Winds were gusting about 40 miles an hour. There's been heavy snowfall in the area for the past three weeks, and a winter travel advisory was in effect. Jackie Northam, NPR News.
Flights have since resumed at Pearson International. The death toll from flooding in Kentucky has risen to at least 12 as search and rescue efforts continue in areas of the state. This is NPR News from Washington. Cold air continues to expand over more states in the central U.S. The National Weather Service has extended extreme cold warnings into much of Oklahoma and Texas.
They stretch northward into Montana, the Dakotas, Minnesota and Wisconsin. Forecasters are warning of life-threatening Arctic cold in northern areas. It's currently 33 degrees below zero in Bismarck, North Dakota. It's minus 11 in Minneapolis. The Vatican says Pope Francis remains hospitalized in Rome with what's described as a complex infection in his respiratory system.
He was admitted last week. The pope is 88 years old. Mexican singer Paquita Ladel Barrio has died at the age of 77. As NPR's Isabella Gomez Sarmiento reports, the singer was known as a voice of heartbreak and rage.
Paquita La Del Barrio, which informally translates to Paquita from the Block, became a star in Mexico in the 1980s. She was beloved for the disdain with which she sang about the men who broke her heart. Paquita said her music was inspired by her real relationships. For decades, her lyrics channeled her pain into feminist rage. In the hit Una Rata de Dos Patas, she famously compared an ex-lover
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