NPR News: 11-22-2025 7PM EST

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Speaker 2 Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Hurst. A senior Russian official says a potential summit between President Trump and Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin remains on Moscow's agenda.

Speaker 2 Emperor Charles Mainz has more.

Speaker 3 In an interview with a Russian policy journal, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Rypkov said the prospect of a new Trump-Putin meeting remained.

Speaker 3 I wouldn't rule anything out, said Rypkov, who characterized ongoing dialogue between Washington and Moscow as impressive.

Speaker 3 Those comments come amid a new push by President Trump to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine.

Speaker 3 President Putin has loosely endorsed Trump's draft plan, which critics say skews heavily in Moscow's favor.

Speaker 3 Trump and Putin last met for a hastily scheduled summit in Alaska last August that failed to achieve a diplomatic breakthrough.

Speaker 3 Then Trump complained the Russian leader still wasn't ready for peace and canceled a potential follow-on meeting last month in Hungary. Charles Mainz, Impure News, Moscow.

Speaker 2 The Supreme Court is allowing Texas to use its recently redrawn map of congressional districts for now.

Speaker 2 Empirus Hansi LoWang reports it's the latest move in the gerrymandering fight sparked by President Trump to try to keep Republicans in control of the House of Representatives.

Speaker 4 A final decision from the Supreme Court may come as soon as Monday.

Speaker 4 If the court allows Texas to use the contested map for the midterm election, Republicans may be able to pick up five more seats in the U.S. House.

Speaker 4 A lower court had blocked that map after finding its challengers are likely to prove in a trial that the map is an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.

Speaker 4 That's because multiple top Republican officials made public statements suggesting they passed it to eliminate existing districts where black and Latino voters together make up the majority.

Speaker 4 But Texas tells the Supreme Court that lawmakers were not motivated by race and were focused on drawing new districts that are more likely to elect Republicans.

Speaker 4 Time is running out to finalize Texas's map for the midterms. The state's candidate finaling deadline is about two weeks away.
Anzila Wong and PR News.

Speaker 2 Today marks the end of a week-long gathering in Geneva where over 1,400 delegates were there to discuss the World Health Organization's Tobacco Control Treaty and strategize about how to further reduce smoking rates.

Speaker 2 And Piers Gabriella Emmanuel has more.

Speaker 5 A big debate among anti-tobacco advocates has been whether e-cigarettes, heated tobacco, and nicotine pouches could be used to help people quit smoking. That's a strategy promoted in the UK.

Speaker 5 But WHO has now come out firmly against that idea. It says these newer products are being pushed by the tobacco industry and hooking non-smokers, especially young ones.
Ben McGrady is with WHO.

Speaker 6 We see use rates among children nine times higher than among adults.

Speaker 5 WHO says these cigarettes and the like should be regulated at least as stringently as traditional cigarettes. Gabriella Emmanuel, NPR News.

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Speaker 2 Parts of the world-famous Las Vegas Strip are closed off today as Racing Series F1 is in town to host its annual Grand Prix event.

Speaker 2 The race is a welcome boost for a city that has seen a decline in visitors. Imperial's H.J.
Mai has more.

Speaker 7 Las Vegas is the third and final U.S. stop on this year's F1 calendar.
McLaren teammates Lander Norris and Oscar Piastri are in a race for the title.

Speaker 7 With a win tonight, current championship leader Norris would take a large step towards securing his first driver's title, with only two races left in the season.

Speaker 7 British driver Norris took pole position in a rain-soaked qualifying session Friday night.

Speaker 7 Australia's Piastri will start fifth, after struggling with the challenging conditions along the temporary 3.8-mile street course.

Speaker 7 With no rain in the forecast, race organizers expect more than 100,000 fans in attendance for tonight's race and over 300,000 across the event's three days. HJMI, MPR News, Las Vegas.

Speaker 2 President Trump says he's ending temporary legal protection for Somalis in Minnesota. That's the state with the country's largest Somali community.

Speaker 2 Many fled the long Civil War in their country, and they were drawn to Minnesota's welcoming social programs.

Speaker 2 Trump announced his plans on social media, calling the state a hub of fraudulent money laundering activity without citing evidence. Critics say the move is legally questionable.

Speaker 2 Most Somali residents of Minnesota wouldn't be affected, and only around more than 700 around the country are covered by the program. I'm Janine Herbst, NPR News in Washington.

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