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This message comes from Bayer. Science is a rigorous process that requires questions, testing, transparency, and results that can be proven. This approach is integral to every breakthrough Bayer brings forward. Innovations that save lives and feed the world. Science Delivers.com. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. U.S. and Ukrainian officials are holding talks in Switzerland after yesterday's release of the U.S. drafted peace plan. And here's Eleanor Beardsley reports, many Ukrainians see the proposal as capitulation.

In the western city of Ternopil, bulldozers sift through rubble looking for bodies at an apartment block hit by Russian missiles this week. More than 30 people were killed, including several children. Others are still missing. Since Russia's full-scale invasion, thousands of Ukrainian civilians have been killed. They're proposing some kind of peace for us, without us. Resident Inga Shkharupa says the U.S. peace plan is pro-Russian and done behind Ukraine's back. We're paying the price. People are dying. Cities are getting destroyed. And everybody is doing nothing towards Russia. Nothing. Shkharupa says people here feel betrayed by the U.S.

Eleanor Beardsley, NPR News, Ternopeal, Ukraine. Meanwhile, after criticism that the peace plan favors Russia too much, Trump today says it's not his final offer. to President Zelensky and that he'd be open to changes without saying what that could be. The U.S. Supreme Court has temporarily restored Texas Republicans' new congressional map that was blocked earlier this week by a lower federal court. The Texas newsrooms, Blaise Ganey, has more. The lower federal court had ruled challenges are likely to prove in a trial that the Texas map is an unconstitutional racial gerrymender. But Governor Greg Gabbitt and state attorneys appealed

And on Friday night, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Lito responded by putting a temporary hold on the lower court ruling until Supreme Court justices can weigh in. Texas NWACP president and lawyer Gary Bledso represents plaintiffs seeking to strike down the new maps. The better and fairer practice has been to bring the whole court in on very important issues like this one. A final decision from the Supreme Court may come as soon as Monday for the Texas News. room. I'm Blaise Gainey. United Nations COP 30 Global Climate Conference in Brazil wrapped up today without a

formal agreement on phasing out the use of fossil fuels, the main driver of global warming. COP 30 President Andrei Korea Delago says climate talks have to continue. We know some of you had greater ambitions for some of the issues at hand.

I know the youth civil society will demand us to do more to fight. climate change. I want to reaffirm that I will try not to disappoint you during my presidency. The United States was absent from this year's talks after the Trump administration refused to send a delegation. You're listening to NPR News. Pope Leo today accepted the resignation of a Spanish bishop who's under investigation for allegedly sexually abusing a young seminarian in the 1990s. Seventy-year-old Cadiz Bishop Raphael Zornah submitted his resignation last year when he turned 75,

the normal retirement age for bishops, but it wasn't accepted until a newspaper reported that he was under investigation. The Diocese of Cadiz denies the accusations against Zornosa. Leo hasn't yet named a temporary leader of the diocese. Hades living through one of the darkest periods of its time, but this week, something extraordinary broke through the tension. The men's national football team qualified for the World Cup for the first time in 52 years. Harold Isaac has more. For a few hours on Tuesday evening, Haiti felt different. Haitians poured out of their homes in thousands, celebrating a historic moment.

The national team, the Grenadier, are headed to the World Cup. The Grenadji sealed their qualification with a two-neal win over Nicaragua, becoming the first team ever to reach the World Cup without hosting a single home game. Gangs have turned much of Port-au-Prince into a war zone, forcing the squad to train abroad. Players posted emotional videos pleading with gangs and politicians to let them return home safely. Still, for a nation battered by crisis, the moment feels sacred. For NPR News, I'm Harold Isaac in Porter-Prince. And I'm Janine Herbst.

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