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The Kennedy Center's former president Richard Grenell was a paid board member of Ticketmaster's parent company at the same time the two parties were negotiating. -
In a 2023 campaign speech, Trump pledged to reclaim universities from what he called the radical left. His Education Department just finalized a rule to help him do it.
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NPR's A Martinez asks Ukraine's former Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba for his proposals to close gaps in talks between Russia, Ukraine and Europe.
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NPR's A Martinez speaks with former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, William Taylor, about the ongoing peace talks between the U.S., Russia and Ukraine.
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U.S.-mediated talks in Abu Dhabi have wrapped up with an agreement on a Russia-Ukraine prisoner exchange. U.S. negotiators meet with Vladimir Putin on Thursday and Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday.
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NPR's A Martinez talks to director James Gray and actor Miles Teller about the film "Paper Tiger," in which a family gets pulled unwittingly into the business of the Russian mafia.
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World leaders are gathered in Turkey for climate talks, after a year of conflict that has frayed international ties and upended global energy markets. One conspicuous absence: the U.S.
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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Democratic Representative Bennie Thompson, of Mississippi, about Democrat Scott Colom's U.S. Senate victory.
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Scott Colom has won the U.S. Senate race in Mississippi. After a very close race, he's the first Black man to represent the state in the Senate in nearly 150 years.
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The unique marshes of southern Iraq are beginning to revive after five years of devastating drought. But challenges remain for one of the world's oldest ways of life.
