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On the next due line from NPR, the man who saw a dangerous omission in the U.S. Constitution and took it upon himself to fix it. If something happened to a president who was still alive, the consequences for the country would have been enormous. The 25th Amendment. Listen in the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts. Live from NPR News in New York City, I'm Duhal-Lisa Kautau. President Trump says his Friday summit with Russian leader Vladimir Putin may be a prelude to a second one, one that could possibly include Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. But as NPR's Daniel Kurtzleben reports, Trump is also managing his expectations. Trump says that Friday's meeting with Putin in Alaska will determine whether they have another gathering that includes Zelensky.

Now, there may be no second meeting because if I feel that it's not appropriate to have it, because they didn't get the answers that we have to have, then we're not going to have a second meeting. A White House official said the meeting will take place at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage. Trump also said a call he had with Zelensky and other European leaders this morning went well. After that call, German Chancellor Friedrich Mayors said Ukraine must be at the table for negotiations with Putin. Danielle Kurtzleben and PR News, the White House. National Guard troops are now spreading across the District of Columbia just days after President Trump said the federal government would take a lot of.

over the city and local police. Ava Shen is a 27-year-old D.C. business consultant. I've lived in cities my whole life, and I don't think D.C. is more dangerous than other cities that I've lived in. Like, I think this summer actually has been, like in my personal experience, has been calmer than other summers. Alicia Cooper also lives in the district. She works in property management, and she said she likes the idea of federal government

oversight of police. The positive is a sense of security. residents at the end of the day, they can feel secure that they know that there is a higher level of chain command that is monitoring, you know, what's going on. Washington, D.C.'s mayor, Merrill Bowser called the National Guard troop deployment and authoritarian push. In Maryland, three lawmakers say a federal immigration detention center in Baltimore is operating with little transparency. And that's after they tour the facility on Wednesday from member stations. WIPR, Wambui Kamau reports. Senator Chris Van Hollen and representatives Kwe-Sin Foume and Sarah Elfrith

toured the Baltimore ICE facility. Weeks after Homeland Security first denied them entry, lawmakers say they weren't allowed to speak with detainees or bring their phones inside. Mfoume added that ICE officials couldn't answer 25 basic questions like where detainees are from or how long they've been held. They couldn't tell me how many Haitians or Africans have been in this facility, or how many people may have been from Mexico or Honduras,

any European country. They said, well, we'll have to get back to you on that. They say their visit was to demand oversight and due process. For NPR news, I'm one boy Kamau in Baltimore. At this hour, Asian stocks were mixed. Japanese Niki fell after a record six-day rally, shares in China and Hong Kong climbed. This is NPR News. YouTube is rolling out an age verification system in the U.S. It uses artificial intelligence to guess if a user is under age. And Pierce-John Rewich reports social media sites are facing increasing pressure to protect kids from inappropriate content.

YouTube says it will use AI to assess a variety of signals, including account activity and longevity, to figure out if a signed-in user is a minor. If an account is determined to belong to someone who's under 18, it says standard protections for minors will be automatically applied. Those include showing only non-personalized ads and enabling well-being tools, like reminders to take a break or go to bed. Users who think the AI model got it wrong can verify their true age with a photo ID or credit card. YouTube says its age-infrance approach has been used in other markets and it's worked well. Some critics say, though, it raises privacy concerns. John Rewich, NPR News.

The Trump administration can continue to freeze or terminate billions of dollars previously earmarked for global health programs, including HIV and aid services. This is because a federal appeals court on Wednesday ruled two to one in favor of President Trump, noting that the plaintiffs, international aid groups that were recipients of the foreign aid grants, quote, did not have legal standing to bring a lawsuit. The dissenting federal judge Florence Pan, who was appointed by former President Joe Biden, Biden wrote, the court's holding that the grantees have no constitutional cause of action is as startling as it is erroneous.

I'm Dwahli Saikautau, NPR News in New York. Stars, they're just like us. John Legend goes to CBS. Well, that's because he has his own skin care line. It was so exciting to actually go into one of those stores. We had the in caps. Were you like, I don't want this locked up? John Legend is one of many stars riding the celebrity brain.

landing wave. He tells us about it on The Indicator from Planet Money. Listen in the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts.