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Ukraine's New Year's Agony, Puerto Rico Power Outages, Dry January Tips
Wed, 01 Jan 2025
Ukraine's leader vows to end the fighting in 2025, just before Russian drones attack Kyiv again. A grid failure leaves more than half of Puerto Rico without power. Why resolve to have a "dry January?"For more comprehensive analysis of the most important news of the day, plus a little fun? Subscribe to the Up First newsletter.Today's episode of Up First was edited by Jan Johnson, and Alice Woelfle. It was produced by Kaity Kline, Ben Abrams and Julie Depenbrock. We get engineering support from Arthur Laurent. And our technical director is Stacey Abbott.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
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So how did you spend your New Year's Eve, Layla?
I mean, it was a wild night. I went to bed at nine.
Congratulations!
I couldn't figure out who was celebrating the New Year. Finally figured out it was Greenland. Oh! Rang it in with Greenland.
That's great, that's great. And went to sleep. What'd you do? I stayed up with the kids until Rio de Janeiro at 10 o'clock Eastern time. Ooh, that's a fun one. Anyway, we also want to start the year by thanking everyone who joined NPR Plus or made a donation to the NPR Network or your local station during our end-of-the-year fundraising campaign.
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