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Chapter 1: What is the situation in Gaza according to NPR's correspondent?
Anas Baba is NPR's eyes and ears on the ground in Gaza.
Wherever you put your eye to the horizon, it's the same. Destruction everywhere.
On The Sunday Story, what it's like to be a reporter covering the war in Gaza while also living through it. Listen now to The Sunday Story on the Up First podcast from NPR.
Chapter 2: What are the key points from Putin's meeting with the U.S. special envoy?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. The Kremlin confirms Russian President Vladimir Putin has met White House Special Envoy Steve Witkoff in Moscow. NPR's Charles Mains reports they discussed a U.S.-negotiated temporary ceasefire proposal for Ukraine.
According to the Kremlin, Putin met with Witkoff late evening and passed on additional information and signals about the ceasefire proposal to President Trump. In his lone public remarks on the offer, Putin expressed appreciation for Trump's diplomatic efforts and endorsed the idea of a ceasefire in principle, but Putin also presented a list of issues that warranted further discussions.
Chapter 3: How are the U.S. and Ukraine responding to the ceasefire proposal?
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Moscow of stalling negotiations to prolong the war, Yet Trump and his lead negotiators continue to express cautious optimism. Charles Mains, NPR News.
Chapter 4: What is the U.S. Secretary of State's view on the ceasefire talks?
Secretary of State Marco Rubio says he is cautiously optimistic about the prospects for a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine. He says the U.S. and Russia will probably convene talks this weekend.
This is going to play out the way things of this nature and caliber have traditionally and normally play out, and that is with the leaders of the countries involved speaking, not in front of the cameras, not in front of the media, but in these negotiations that happen and these talks that happen.
So I'm not going to comment on what President Putin said other than he said he agreed with it in concept.
Rubio addressing reporters following the G7 meeting in Canada, his remarks coming weeks after the public blowout at the White House between Presidents Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, as Zelensky warned that the Kremlin cannot be trusted to comply with a peace deal, but Ukraine recently agreed to a U.S. ceasefire proposal.
Columbia University says it has expelled or suspended some students who occupied a campus building during pro-Palestinian protests last spring. NPR's Ava Pukach reports Columbia officials have also confirmed that agents from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security were on campus last night.
Interim Columbia University President Katrina Armstrong says DHS federal agents with warrants searched two rooms in university residences. This comes at a time when Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, a former Columbia graduate student who helped lead protests on campus... has been detained and faces possible deportation despite being a lawful permanent U.S. resident.
President Trump has said Khalil's arrest is, quote, the first of many to come. The Trump administration recently announced it is stripping the university of more than $400 million in federal funds over what it says are failures to protect students from anti-Semitism on campus. Ava Pukach, NPR News.
U.S. stocks trading higher this hour with the Dow up 500. 53 points or more than 1%. At 41,368, the Nasdaq is up more than 2%. This is NPR News. A Herculean achievement is being celebrated in Alaska today. Alaska's new soar is capturing a champion finish at the longest ever Iditarod. Ten dogs led by Hercules and Polar pulled musher Jesse Holmes across the finish line early this morning.
They completed a more than 1,100 mile journey in 10 days, 14 hours, 55 minutes and 41 seconds. Senator Lisa Murkowski spoke proudly about it on the floor of the U.S. Senate and dropped some info a lot of people might not know when it comes to braving the Alaska wilderness day and night. Mushers put their dogs' needs first.
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