American and Russian officials meet in Saudi Arabia for talks on negotiating an end to the war in Ukraine. The Trump administration has started making broad cuts to federal health agencies. Days after the Justice Department moved to drop corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, four of his top aides and deputy mayors announced their resignations. Want more comprehensive analysis of the most important news of the day, plus a little fun? Subscribe to the Up First newsletter. Today's episode of Up First was edited by Ryland Barton, Jane Greenhalgh, Denice Rios, Reena Advani and Janaya Williams. It was produced by Ziad Buchh, Nia Dumas and Christopher Thomas. We get engineering support from Arthur Laurent and our technical director is Carleigh Strange. Our Executive Producer is Kelley Dickens. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
Top foreign policy officials from the US And Russia meet in Saudi Arabia today.
Yeah, Ukraine isn't invited, but ending the war is a primary focus.
What's on the bargaining table without Ukraine present?
I'm Amy Martinez.
That's Layla Fadel.
And this is up first from NPR News.
The country's health agencies have not been spared from federal job cuts, regardless of.
Whether they were filling an important role or how they were performing in that role.
We'll hear what people were told about why they were let go.
And the governor of New York may try to remove New York City Mayor Eric Adams from office.
Controversy surrounding the mayor has deepened
since four of his top aides and deputy mayors announced that they will resign.
What Mayor Adams is saying about his own future.
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