This NPR News segment covers high-level diplomatic efforts to end the war in Ukraine, surging fuel prices impacting U.S. consumers and businesses, a pivotal far-right election in Germany, infrastructure decay at the Kennedy Center, political battles over AI data centers, and a bizarre the
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