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8.19.25 · Washington Post

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the reading of the Washington Post for Tuesday,
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August nineteenth, twenty twenty five. As a reminder, Radio I
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is a reading service intended for people who are blind
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or have other disabilities that make it difficult to read
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printed material. Your reader for today is Cindy Fraser. Today's
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front page headlines from the Washington Post are rights cases
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flip under Trump Education Department now scrutinizes measures aimed at
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fixing iniquities. Next, after meetings, Trump unswayed on Ukraine, Europeans
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show United front. Zelensky gets a polite welcome, but no
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cease fire. Next, Ukrainians feel war's staggering costs in children's
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lives on ex headline, AI creators finding gold in flood
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of fake videos. Next, Democrats are returning to taxi clearing
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away for GOP to draw new map. And the final
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headline from today's front page, A drying Great Salt Lake
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holds a new hazard. Frequent dust events carry a carcinogenic threat.
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So now let's turn to our first article entitled rights
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cases flip under Trump Education Department now scrutinizes moves aimed
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at fixing inequities. By Laura Meckler. The Trump administration has
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upended civil rights enforcement at K through twelve schools and colleges,
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prioritizing cases that allege transgender students and students of color
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are getting unfair advantages, while severe staff cuts have left
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thousands of other allegations unresolved. The Education Department's Office for
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Civil Rights is so short staffed that some attorneys have
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as many as three hundred cases, making it impossible to
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devote attention to most of them. Current and former employees
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said fewer cases are being closed, and ninety percent of
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those resolved were dismissed, typically without an investigation, up from
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eighty percent last year. According to data obtained by The
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Washington Post, the office has a backlock of about twenty
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five thousand unresolved cases, up from about twenty thousand when
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President Donald Trump took office, Department officials said at the
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same time. Under Trump, the Civil Rights Office has announced
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investigations of at least ninety nine schools, often based on
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news coverage or complaints from conservative groups. As of early August,
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the administration had launched twenty seven directed investigations, probes that
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are opened without an outside complaint. Court filing show these
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changes defined the new tone and mission in the Civil
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Rights Office, which is aggressively pursuing Trump's agenda. In choosing
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its targets, the administration is not just picking different priorities
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than its predecessors, it's flipping the interpretation of civil rights
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law in the opposite direction. The Post interviewed ten current
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and former employees of the office about the changes and
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the backlogs. Several spoke on the condition of anonymity to
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avoid retribution. Under the Biden administration, the Office for Civil
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Rights focused on insuring equal opportunity for students of color. Now,
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the Office has opened several investigations into whether programs aimed
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at addressing inequities amount to illegal discrimination in favor of
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those students. Forty five colleges, for instance, are being investigated
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for working with a pH d project, a program that
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has tried to boost the number of black, Hispanic and
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Native American students who are in doctorates in business. And
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another example. Last year, the Civil Rights Office required a
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New York school district to stop using its Redskins mascot,
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saying the moniker may have created a hostile environment for
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Native American students. This year, the same office found it
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is against the law to ban the mascots, calling it
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an attempt to erase the history of Native American tribes
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and Under the Biden administration, schools were told that failure
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to accommodate transgender students was illegal sex discrimination under Title MIND.
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Now they are told the opposite, allowing transgender girls and
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women to access female bathrooms, locker rooms, and sports teams
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is a violation of the same federal law. The Education Department,
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backed by many conservatives, argues that the shift was a
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correction from the Biden administration, which it says pushed its
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own political agenda. President Joe Biden's ocr Office for Civil
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Rights protected racial exclusion, permitted schools to push gender ideology
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on students, and even fought to keep sexually explicit material
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in school libraries. Julie Hartman, an Education Department spokeswoman, said
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in a statement, the Trump administration has reoriented enforcement to
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protect students and families. Critics say the new priorities hurts
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students facing discrimination. At a House hearing in June, Representative
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Robert C. Bobby Scott, Democrat from Virginia, told Education Secretary
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Linda McMahon that her agency had abdicated its responsibility. Under
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your stewardship, the Office of Civil Rights is implementing a
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radical reinterpretation of our civil rights laws that abandons its
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long standing duties to investigate, monitor, and provide resources to
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victims of potential civil rights violations, he said. One Trump priority,
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anti semitism on college campuses, was also a focus under
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President Joe Biden, but the Trump administration has been far
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more aggressive in forcing change on schools, with multiple agencies
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launching investigations and pulling federal funding over alleged failures to
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address the issue, And unlike under Biden, the current administration
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has not paired anti semitism investigations at schools with probes
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into anti Muslim discrimination. One example of the growing backlog
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is a four year old case out of Michigan. It
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remains unresolved, even though the parent who brought the complaint
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was told near the end of the Biden administration that
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Education Department lawyers were wrapping it up. Jin Romanschuk says
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that in twenty twenty one, her daughter, then twelve, bought
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a vape from a friend, but gave it back unused,
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to the cellar the next day. Soon after school officials
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learned of the vape sales among students and meet it
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out punishments. Manchuk said her daughter, who was black, was
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given a three day out of school suspension. Then she
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found that a white boy who had been caught smoking
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the babe in a school hallway was given a one
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day in school suspension. I started asking questions, she said.
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After the school district, located north of Detroit, refused to
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alter the punishments or remove the violation from her daughter's file,
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Romanchuk filed a complaint with the Federal Education Department's Office
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for Civil Rights. In December, she got a call from
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a government attorney in the department's Cleveland office who said
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they were closed to completing the investigation. Then in March,
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the Cleveland office was closed. In August, Romanchuk was given
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the name of a new government attorney in Denver who
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was handling her complaint, but no indication of when or
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how the Civil Rights Office would resolve it. The school
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district declined to comment. Romanchuk says she hopes the case
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will force her district to make check to how it
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treats students of different races. That was my goal from
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the start, she said, So all students of color benefit
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from being treated with more equity. About half of the
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Civil Rights Offices employees were laid off in March as
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part of a deep cut to the Education Department's staff.
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Seven of twelve regional offices were closed, including the Cleveland office.
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The remaining five offices also lost personnel, due in part
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to incentive programs that paid people to resign or retire early.
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The division had long struggled with significant case backlogs, and
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current and former employees say the staff reductions are making
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the problem worse. Over the course of the Biden administration's
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four years, the backlog grew by about sixteen thousand cases.
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Documents show in less than five months of the Trump administration,
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it grew by about five thousand. Officials said in June
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we had been left with thousands of cases that need
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to be reassigned and need to be handled by a
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small group of people, said one attorney, whose caseload increased fivefold.
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There's no way they can function, said Michael Palera, an
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attorney who worked for the Office for Civil Rights for
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ten years. No one can do that many cases. It's
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not possible. Certain cases, such as those related to anti
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semitism or transgender athletes have been prioritized. Current and former
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employees said there's pressure to provide updates, so as a result,
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they are being prioritized because that's what headquarters cares about,
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said one attorney. Internal data provided to the Post shows
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that during the first six months of the Trump administration,
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about five thy four hundred cases were closed. That's almost
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three thousand fewer than the same period in twenty twenty four,
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though greater than the number closed during the first six
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months of the Biden administration in twenty twenty one. In addition,
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during the first six months, fifty nine cases found civil
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rights violations that required schools to make changes and agree
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to federal monitoring, compared with three hundred thirty six during
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the same period in twenty twenty four. The data shows.
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A senior Education Department official told the Post that the
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office has opened hundreds of investigations into disability discrimination cases
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and that eighty nine percent of cases resolved with agreements
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to make changes were related to disabilities. In its budget
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request to Congress for next year, the administration asked for
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a thirty five percent reduction in appropriations for the Civil
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Rights Office. Testifying before Congress in June McMahon said that
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despite the cutbacks, we are setting a new standard for
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prompt and effective investigations. Under past administrations, she told the
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House Education and the Workforce Committee, massive backlogs of legitimate
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civil rights complaints languished, while legal staff were directed to
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focus on cases based on transgender ideology and other progressive causes,
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a fast track for some cases. For thirty years, the
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pH D Project worked toward a goal. Organizer's thought wasn't controversial,
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increasing the number of doctor degrees in business earned by Black,
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Hispanic and Native American students, whose numbers lagged far behind
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other groups. The group, founded in nineteen ninety four by
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the KPMG Foundation, aimed to diversify business school faculties, hoping
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that would attract a more diverse group of students that
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was of interest to KPMG, the accounting firm that created
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the foundation. The pH D Project invited prospective students in
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the underrepresented racial groups to an annual conference where they
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could learn more about doctoral programs. They also networked with
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representatives from partner universities who set up recruiting tables. At
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the start of twenty twenty five, the pH D Project
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had two hundred twenty nine partner schools that each paid
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a fee to participate. The pH D Project says more
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than one thousand, five hundred of its participants have earned
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doctorates in business over the years. Alfonso Alexander, the projects
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president and CEO, said that for decades he heard no complaints.
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That changed in January when Christopher Ruffo, a leading critic
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of diversity, equity and inclusion programs, posted on x that
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the pH D Project's annual meeting was a quote segregated
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conference that prohibited white and Asian students. The project responded
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almost immediately. In January, the organization opened its conference to
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prospective students of all races committed to inclusive excellence, and
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in February the board voted on a new mission statement.
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A spokeswoman said the March conference included a handful of
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students previously ineligible based on their race. Though amid the criticism,
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just twenty seven business schools turned up at the event,
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down from eighty nine last year. We believed one hundred
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percent at that time that we were doing the right
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thing and we were compliant with the laws of this country,
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Alexander said. But we did say we need to go
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back and make sure that everything we're doing we can
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defend after the group's policy changes. The Office for Civil Rights,
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responding to a complaint, opened an investigation in March into
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whether forty five universities that partnered with a project were
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discriminating against white and Asian students. In July, the government
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asked to meet with officials from the PhD project. Alexander
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said the meeting has yet to occur, but last month
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officials at the Civil Rights Office headquarters told regional officers
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they had found participating universities in violation of Title six,
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which barre's discrimination on the basis of race. According to
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documents reviewed by the Post, the Department sent investigators a
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sample resolution agreement for universities to sign, in which they
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would promise to discontinue any relationship with the pH D Project.
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An Education Department official declined a comment on details of
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the investigation, but said the probe is still ongoing into
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past allegations of racial discrimination by these universities. A total
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of seventy five universities have dropped out of the partnership
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with the program as of mid August. Alexander said more
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may be coming. Our next item from to Day's front
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page is entitled After meetings, Trump unswayed on Ukraine, Europeans
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show united front. Zelensky gets a polite welcome, but no
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cease far by Michael Bernbaum and kat Zarkhruvski, leaders of
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European and NATO countries presented a united front with Ukrainian
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President Volodimy Zelensky. After racing to Washington hoping to steer
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President Donald Trump away from some of the concessions, he
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appeared ready to grant the Kremlin to end the war
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in Ukraine. After several hours of meetings Monday, sharp differences
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remained evident between the leaders and Trump, who declared that
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Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready for peace, even as
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he has continued his bombardment of Ukraine and demanded that
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Kiev makes sweeping, painful concessions to stop the war. But
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Ukrainian and European leaders appeared encouraged by Trump's openness to
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security guarantees for Ukraine, which Putin might not accept that
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could make the Kremlin the obstacle to Trump's peace deal,
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insulting Ukraine from having to choose between untenable concessions of
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territory and inviting Trump's ire. We appreciate the important signal
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from the United States regarding its readiness to support and
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be part of these guarantees, Selensky said Tuesday. French President
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Emmanuel Macron also said after the summit that pressure on
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Russia would continue until peace was established with security guarantees,
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which we have decided to work in very concrete terms
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with the United States. The next step in the process
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could be a meeting directly between Zelensky and Putin, perhaps
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with Trump and attendance as well. Putin and Zelensky will
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meet within the next two weeks. German Chancellor Friedrich Mrch
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said after the White House meetings ended. We are ready
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for any kind of format, but at the level of leaders,
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Zelensky told reporters after he left the White House. The Kremlin, however,
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stopped well short of accepting that idea. Yudyushkov, Putin's foreign
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policy adviser, told reporters that Putin and Trump discussed the
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idea that it would be advisable to explore the possibility
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of raising the level of representatives of the Ukrainian and
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Russian sides participating in the negotiations. Trump offered a polite
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reception to Zelensky, a stark difference from his visit in February,
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when he was ejected from the White House after a
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meeting turned into a verbal attack by Trump. This time,
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Zelensky had back up from seven of the world's most
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powerful leaders at a historic White House pilgrimage. Really, I
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am so so grateful for all of them to organize
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this trip to Washington so quickly, Zelensky said, I am
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forever grateful. It really had a massive influence because Ukraine
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is not alone. But there was no immediate move toward
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the ceasefire that Ukraine has pressed for, and the Europeans
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were seeking more detail about the potential promises from Washington
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to help underwrite Kiev security. Ukraine also offered to buy
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one hundred billion dollars of US weapons to be funded
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by Europe as part of its bid to win America's
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commitment to security guarantees set A person briefed on the
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talks speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters.
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The Financial Times first reported the proposal. Monday's unusual group
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meeting at the White House continued an extraordinary sequence of
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diplomacy that could shape security in Europe for a generation,
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with European leaders fearing that Putin was getting the upper
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hand in the breakneck peace effort. Trump reveled at Monday's tableau,
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saying that the White House had never seen such a
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collection of prime ministers and presidents, all of whom dropped
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what they were doing to rush to Washington to try
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to salvage Ukraine's security. Several of the leaders, including Macron
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and Mertz, tried to frame their goals as Trump's own,
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portraying an immediate ceasefire and robust US security guarantees for
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Ukraine as ideas endorsed by the White House. Trump, however,
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appeared to reject a ceasefire and was vague about what
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he would offer Ukraine to bolster his defense as part
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of any deal. Instead, he portrayed Putin as someone who
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is eager to halt the fighting. I don't think there's
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any issue that's overly complex. It's at a point now
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where people want to do things. I really do believe,
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Trump said, own Putin for a long time. I've always
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had a great relationship with him. I think that President
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Putin wants to find an answer too. Trump at one
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point paused the East Room meeting and left the European
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leaders to speak for forty minutes by phone to Putin.
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According to one person familiar with the talks, who spoke
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on the condition of anonymity to talk frankly about the
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sensitive closed door conversations, Macron inmerite pressure Trump to demand
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a ceasefire ahead of a possible joint meeting with Zelenski
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and Putin. Macarn sought to position such a move as
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Trump's idea, even after the President signaled that he was
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willing to allow the war to continue during negotiations. Russia
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said they would refuse a ceasefire, but President Trump is
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convinced he can come to a peace agreement without a
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cease fire, Macron told reporters after the meeting. We all
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told him we cannot discuss a peace agreement that takes
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several days several weeks while the bombs continued to drop,
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but Trump claimed that no ceasefire was needed to negotiate
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the ends of other conflicts during his presidency. All of
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us would obviously prefer an immediate cease fire while we
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work on their lasting peace, Trump said, with the world leaders,
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and maybe something like that could happen as of this moment.
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It's not happening. The day's events began with a military
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color guard holding US state flags flanking the driveway to
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the White House. As Zelensky arrived in a black suv
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with small Ukrainian and American flags waving from the fenders.
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Trump raised his fist as Zelenski's car pulled up to
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the West Wing lobby, Interest then gave him a warm
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handshake and put his arm around his shoulders before ushering
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him into the White House. The welcome fell short, however,
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of the red carpet and B two bomber flyover that
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greeted Putin when he arrived Friday to meet with Trump
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and Anchorage. Trump said he complimented Zelensky's black jacket and
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collared shirt, a departure from the military stall fatigues that
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were mocked during the Ukrainian president's disastrous February to the
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White House. Selensky appeared to have learned from that meeting
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and adopted the playbook that has helped other European leaders
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succeed with Trump flattery. I think that we had a
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very good conversation with President Trump. It really was the
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best one, Zelensky said after their one on one meeting
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or sorry, maybe the best one will be in the future,
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but it was really good. He also handed the President
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who loves letters a handwritten note from his wife for
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First Lady Malania Trump, thanking her for her letter to
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Putin about the plight of children in Ukraine. Selensky remained
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cordial in the opening remarks of the Oval Office meeting,
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even as Trump appeared to concede to some of Putin's demands.
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Trump claimed that strategically a cease fire could be a
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disadvantage for one side or the other. The main beneficiary
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of a ceasefire would be Ukrainian civilians, who would be spared.
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After more than three years of attacks without a cease fire,
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Russia has continued to pound Ukraine, killing at least two
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children in overnight attacks in Kharkiv and Zoporisa. Zelensky said
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in the Oval Office that one of the victims was
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under the age of two. Trump said the United States
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would be involved in keeping peace in Ukraine after any
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agreement with Russia, but he offered few specifics on the
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role that US forces would play. Trump later said in
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a truth social post that European countries would provide the
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guarantees with a co ordination with the United States of America.
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Zelensky came away pleased with his meeting, viewing the American
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and European security guarantees as a significant achievement that will
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be difficult for Moscow to accept as part of any
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peace deal. A Zelensky advisor said, they're very, very happy
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with this, noted the advisor, who spoke on the condition
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of anonymity to discuss a sensitive meeting. The adviser said
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the contrast could not be more stark with Selensky's last visit.
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I think it will be Putin who says no. The
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adviser said. The Russians don't want a de facto NATO
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arrangement for Ukraine with European peacekeepers in Ukraine. They don't
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want European troops now five hundred miles closer to Russia.
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That's not why they fought this war. Ukrainian officials have
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long feared that the Trump administration would propose a peace
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deal with territorial concessions unacceptable to ki. If Ukraine was
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viewed as the obstacle to peace, Trump might then withdraw
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military support for Ukraine, a nightmare scenario for Kiev. If
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Trump used Putin as the obstacle. However, the US could
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once again step up pressure on Moscow. The European leaders
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suggested Trump is willing to take sanctions if Russia is
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not willing to play ball. Macron said after the meeting,
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European leaders have welcomed Trump's new openness to possible US
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security guarantees for Ukraine. Guarantees are key to any settlement
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to give key protection against future attacks and as a
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means Vizelensky to get domestic acceptance for a deal with Russia.
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They said. A coalition that by France and Britain has
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for months planned ways to back Ukraine in a future deal,
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including with weapons and possibly some troops. France and Britain,
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Europe's only nuclear powers, are the only countries that have
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announced a readiness to deploy troops, As other big nations
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such as Germany have hesitated, Ideas on the size of
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such a force have been whittled down beyond troops, however,
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plans include providing air and sea power to secure Ukraine's skies,
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nucleo sides and black sea corridors, and above all, reinforcing
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Ukraine's army with pledges of weapons and training. France and
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Britain have sought US support for a deployment of a
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small group of forces to post war Ukraine away from
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the front lines. The proposals on US backing with key
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capabilities such as intelligence and satellite surveillance, and would aim
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to deter Russia from attempting to reignite the war, but
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with many details unsettled, it was clear that a deal
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to end the war is not yet at hand, said Macron.
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It's far from over Allan Francis and Brussels. Catherine Belton
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in London, Natalia Abakumova and Riga Latvia and Katie Tarrant,
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John Hudson and patrick's Vetik in Washington contributed to this report.
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Our next aim is entitled Ukrainians Feel War's staggering costs
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in Children's lives bvy Sera Korolchuk, Anastasia Kaloshka and Shivan O'Grady.
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Russia continues to relentlessly bombard Ukraine each day, killing and
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wounding civilians. July was the deadliest month in Ukraine since
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a full scale invasion began in twenty twenty two, with
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two hundred eighty six people killed and one thousand three
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hundred eighty eight wounded. According to the United Nations, the
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number of civilians killed and wounded in Ukraine in the
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first seven months of the year increased by forty eight
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percent compared with the same period the year before. On Friday,
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President Donald Trump hosted Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska
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for direct talks, but the summit yielded no breakthrough or
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any sign that the attacks on Ukraine will land. Trump
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dropped his insistence on a ceasefire, and Putin demanded territorial
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concessions that are unacceptable to Ukraine. According to officials familiar
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with the talks, who spoke on the condition of anonymity
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to discuss sensitive diplomacy, Ukraine has long agreed to a
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thirty day ceasefire to set the stage for negotiations to
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end the war. Russia has refused. Instead its ramped up
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attacks on heavily populated areas. According to independent military analysts
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and a Washington Post analysis of data from Ukraine's armed forces,
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Russia says it targets military facilities and personnel, as well
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as public infrastructure that it says aids Ukrainian military. At
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least fifty five children have been killed in Ukraine this year,
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according to the UN. The Post confirmed that at least
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forty three of those children were killed in Russian attacks
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on Ukrainian controlled territory. Post reporters verified the forty three
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deaths with parents, relatives, teachers and local officials, and visited
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the families and graves of more than twenty of them.
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These are some of their stories. Sofia Yovorska nine killed
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by a russianism in Poltava on February first. Yoharyovorsky sixty
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two loved everything about his nine year old granddaughter, the
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way she studied the encyclopedia and played tennis, how she
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danced and drew, the way she made candles and figurines,
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and even brace that she sold in the park to
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raise money for soldiers. Like her dad. Yehorta also loved
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how she used to tease him by pulling at his
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big gray beard and begging him to shave, insisting I
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want to see my grandfather be young. On February first,
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Sofia's grandmother, Olena Yevorsky fifty nine, felt an explosion as
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she arrived to work at a shop in Pultava when
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her son, his wife and Sophia didn't answer her cause
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she rushed to their apartments, screaming for someone to save
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her family. Our rescue worker pulled her aside and asked
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her which part of the building they lived in the
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first entrance, she recalled, replying grandma. He told her the
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first part is gone. The Russian cruise missile had destroyed
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Sophia's apartment, killing the nine year old and her parents.
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To honor Sofia's wishes, Yehorst shaved his beard for the
28:55
family funeral. Maxim and Timofi Kotov eleven and thirteen killed
29:01
by Russian schelling in the Donetsk region on March eleventh.
29:05
Unnamed girl fifteen killed by Russian schelling in Pokorovsk on
29:09
March seventeenth. Her family has not released her name. Uliana
29:14
Christina Malenko seventeen killed by Russian dron in Zaporiza on
29:20
March twenty first. Belloria Podlivska three killed by Russian John
29:27
and Ki on March twenty third. Unnamed boy ten killed
29:33
by a Russian glibaum in Karmatoorsk on July twenty second.
29:38
Diana and Daniel Zabishnya twelve and seven killed by Russian
29:45
missil in Poltava on February first. After a Russian missile
29:50
killed Daniel Zabishni, seven, his older sister Diana twelve, and
29:55
their parents, is up to Daniel's teacher to explain to
29:58
his friends why he was no longer at school. Boddana
30:03
Droch had not trained for this moment, but she did
30:06
her best to explain the war and why the boy
30:08
who could never sit still unless food was on the
30:11
table would not be coming back to class for weeks. Afterward,
30:16
her seven year old students would collapse in her arms
30:18
to cry. Now, when air raid sirens go off, she
30:22
notices the children are much quicker to rush to the
30:24
basement's shelter. Teachers wanted to hang portraits of the siblings
30:29
in immemorial, but they worried that placing the photos in
30:32
the hallway would be too upsetting for the children still
30:35
processing the desk. Instead, their images hang on a wall
30:39
in the principal's office. Students can come to visit privately
30:43
when they need a moment with one of their lost friends.
30:46
No goal can be justified as a price is the
30:49
life of a human child, Droc said. Makita Perachus fifteen
30:55
killed by a Russian missile in Kibirie on April fourth.
31:00
N Sientinovik sixteen killed by Russian missile in Krivieri on
31:05
April fourth. Nikol Haranska five killed by Russian drone in Ky.
31:12
On March twenty third, Alexander Haransky, his wife Alexandra, and
31:18
their daughter Nikol moved to Ky, believing it would be
31:22
safer than their home village of Orki, near the front
31:26
line in the southeastern Zapariza region. They desperately missed home,
31:31
their three hundred bee hives, their successful honey business, their church.
31:36
The couple had met through their evangelical faith and stayed
31:40
busy in Key with their new Christian community. Seeking privacy
31:44
from the shared apartment where they lived, the family often
31:47
slept in a mobile home on the church property. On
31:50
March twenty third, they were all asleep there in the
31:53
same bed when a swarm of drones struck. Alexandra was
31:58
pulled out of the rubbel alive. Alexander and Nipole were killed.
32:04
Nicole loved rainbows, our classes, and church. She spoke about
32:08
heaven more than most children her age. Mom, When are
32:12
we going to run around on clouds with Jesus. Alexandra
32:16
recalled her daughter, saying she believed in it fully despite
32:21
everything the attack took from her. Alexandra said she has
32:25
forgiven the Russian soldiers who launched the drone and killed
32:28
her husband and child. When you say I forgive, you
32:32
liberate yourself, she said, But I will not forget. Arina
32:38
Samondina seven killed by a Russian missile in Grievyri on
32:42
April fourth. Ole Kaliusenko seventeen killed by Russian missile in
32:49
Sumi on April thirteenth. Veronica Karashka seventeen killed by a
32:55
Russian drone in Dnipro on April sixteenth. Oswolenko nine killed
33:03
by a Russian glidbaum in the Zapariza region on May
33:06
thirty first. Kurio Goorovko twelve killed by Russian drone in
33:12
the Sumi region on August second. Danilo Nikitsky fifteen killed
33:19
by Russian missile in Krieviyri on April fourth. The teenager's
33:24
parents were supposed to meet soon for a barbecue, a
33:27
big step in their children's new relationship that started in
33:30
January and had quickly turned serious. Instead, they met for
33:35
the first time over their children's dead bodies laid out
33:38
in the park. The fifteen year old's hands were intertwined.
33:43
Danilo Nikitchski and Olino Kuurnsko had fallen hard for each
33:48
other with a typical intensity of first love. They were
33:51
growing up fast. Danilo was no longer the little boy
33:55
obsessed with lenning magic tricks. Alina was no longer the
33:58
little girl who died her hair bright pink in second grade.
34:03
Even at fifteen, they were already planning their future, hoping
34:06
to attend law school together in Odessa. It was such
34:10
a young love, a first love, and if they would
34:13
have little misunderstandings, it would have set them both endlessly,
34:17
said Olina's mother, Mato Kutensko. The parents decided to bury
34:22
their children together and are now designing a share a
34:25
memorial plaque. Di Nilo's father said his favorite memory of
34:29
his son was everything between the eighteenth of November two
34:33
thousand nine until the day of his death. Alina Kotensko, fifteen,
34:39
Danilo's girlfriend, killed by Russian missile in kreevy Rix on
34:43
April fourth. Timofi Tevolskik, three, killed by Russian missile in
34:48
kreevy Rix on April fourth. Hermentropolets nine killed by Russian
34:54
missile in kreevy Rie on April fourth. From Svidilanas ropotlets
34:59
apart armon window, she looks down each day on the
35:02
playground where her son, Herman nine, was killed on April fourth,
35:08
just after the explosion sent a shockwave through their building,
35:12
Herman's father and sister rushed downstairs to find him. He
35:15
was on the merry go round dead. The family chose
35:19
to cremate him because Sidlana feared that if she knew
35:23
his body was intact underground, she would just want to
35:26
dig him out. They do not plan to change apartments,
35:30
because no matter where they go, Svidlana said, the Greek
35:33
will always follow. Instead, they look out at the playground
35:37
and remember Hermann, who loved legos, swimming and karate. He
35:42
never had temper tensions, Svidlana said, and he said, I
35:46
love my life. Victoria Kamyonkova thirteen killed by a Russian
35:53
rocket in the Ronansk region on April twenty fourth. Danilo
35:57
Kuria seventeen kill by Russian missil in Kiev on April
36:02
twenty fourth. Belaria Klibitz fifteen killed by Russian john in
36:08
Pavlorad on April twenty ninth. Dimitro fourteen months killed by
36:15
Russian drone near Krasan On July ninth, Matri Marchenko six
36:22
killed in a Russian ballistic missile strike on an apartment
36:25
building in Kiev. On July thirty first, Alina and Anastasia
36:30
Kumniuk ten and thirteen killed in a Russian ballistic missile
36:34
strike on an apartment building in Kiev on July thirty first.
36:39
Mosim Frinenko eleven killed by Russian missil in Sumi on
36:45
April thirteenth. Moxim Marienko eleven was born into a family
36:50
of evangelical Christians, but often resisted going with them to church.
36:55
On Palm Sunday, he joined his parents for the first
36:58
time in a while. As I rode the bus to church,
37:01
Russia launched two ballistic missiles into Sumi city center, killing
37:06
thirty five people, including Maxim and his parents. Maxim's leg
37:12
was blown off, and his neighbor Valeria Perdrienko recalled how
37:17
when she saw him before his burial, the rest of
37:19
his body was intact. It was almost she said, as
37:23
if he was about to get up and run to play.
37:27
Maxim left behind his faithful dog Rerex, and his grandmother
37:31
Narya Kronoschkok sixty nine, who said she was so sedated
37:36
in the days after their deaths that she is only
37:38
now slowly coming to understand that her only relatives are gone.
37:44
I would smash Putin's face in myself, she said. The
37:48
family was buried together near their shared grave. Some one
37:51
placed a soccer ball, the same one Maxim used to kick.
37:57
Margharita Tdarenkov twelve, killed by Russian drone in the nibro
38:02
Petrovsk region on April twenty ninth. Boris Sinchenko six, killed
38:08
by Russian missile in the Sumi region on May sixth.
38:12
Alexandra Kapetan fifteen, killed by Russian glaibaum In Kherson on
38:18
April eighteenth. Alexandra Carpetan was born on July twenty fifth,
38:24
two thousand nine, a month sooner than expected with all
38:28
the risks that entails for his parents, The boy, nicknamed Sasha,
38:33
was a child of hope. Their first child, born a
38:36
year earlier, lived only seven days. When I was allowed
38:40
to hold him for the first time, I was very happy.
38:43
His father, Alexandro Sovchuk recalled we were all very happy.
38:49
Sasha grew up bursting with life. He played soccer, bill
38:52
construction sets, repaired bicycles, and made pizza with his mother
38:57
before she died of a heart attack last year. His
39:00
family survived Russian occupation in the home village of Musukivka
39:04
in a Kharashon region in twenty twenty two. When Ukrainian
39:08
soldiers retook the area nine months later, Sasha rushed in
39:12
excitement to greet them. He later befriended the Ukrainian troops
39:15
stationed near his home, who several months ago gifted him
39:19
with the Marines beret, a military jacket and several patches.
39:23
He dreamed of one day joining them in the military.
39:27
Then on April seventeenth, Sasha and Alexander were at a
39:31
service station when Russian jests dropped glydebms on Khirson, sending
39:36
shapel into Sasha's head. Alexander used a rag to try
39:40
to stop his son's bleeding. He called for help, but
39:43
Russian drones prevented any ambulance from reaching them, so he
39:47
rushed Sasha to the hospital himself. Doctors performed two long surgeries,
39:52
and when Alexander was allowed into a son's room. The
39:55
next day, Sasha was breathing, his eyes were slightly open.
40:00
I really wanted him to get out of there, to
40:02
fight for himself. He was a strong boy, Alexander said,
40:07
but the shrapnel was stronger at home. In Sasha's room,
40:11
everything remains in its place, a phone from his sister,
40:16
the uniform gifted by soldiers, his note books, backpack and
40:20
construction sets. From his window, Alexander looks out at the
40:25
cemetery where Sasha is buried and sees his son's tombstone
40:29
marked by a large Ukrainian flag to match the graves
40:32
of fallen soldiers. Mikhailo Shaida one killed by Russian drone
40:38
in the Cherneyed region on June fifteenth. Dan Hareta seventeen,
40:45
killed in a June third Russian rocket strike in Sumi,
40:49
died in a hospital on June tent Maria Siora eleven,
40:55
killed in a Russian missile strike in Kiev on June
40:58
twenty third. Dmitri Zvirki five killed in a Russian drone
41:03
strike in Sumi. Unjing twenty four. Lev Lemeko two killed
41:09
in a Russian ballistic missile strike on an apartment building
41:13
in Kiev on July thirty first. Roman Haovi seventeen killed
41:19
in a Russian ballistic missile strike on an apartment building
41:22
in Kiev. On July thirty first, Roman Tamera and Stenislav
41:29
Martiniyuk seventeen, twelve and eight killed by Russian missile in
41:35
the Zitomia region. On May twenty fifth, the hour before
41:39
his siblings funeral began, Alexander of Martinyuk twenty four was
41:44
digging through what remained of his family home, searching for
41:48
anything he could savage. Across the way, a small pile
41:52
was forming, a stack of dinner plates, a heap of toys,
41:56
a red rug rolled up tight. Then he found on
42:00
the chickens. For three days. They had been trapped without
42:03
food or water under the rubble, the same rebel that
42:06
had crushed his two younger brothers and sister days before.
42:11
W Alexander gently picked each bird up, some injured, some
42:15
still far from full grown, and moved them to safety
42:18
in the trunk of a half blown of car. They
42:21
clucked as his girlfriend quietly fed them grain out of
42:24
her hand. While Alexander was in key when the call
42:27
came about the first Russian attack on his quiet hometown,
42:32
a missile had plunged straight into his family's home. Staying
42:36
busy was how Alexander was coping with this new world,
42:39
the one where his childhood home no longer existed. His
42:43
parents were wounded, and three of his four siblings were dead.
42:47
Dusk was settling in. He quickly changed his clothes, showered,
42:51
and rushed to the church, where hundreds of mourners came
42:55
to pay their respects. His mother was too unwell to
42:58
attend her three children's fewuneral. Instead, it was Alexander who
43:03
stood by his father, clutching his shoulders as hundreds of
43:06
people lined up to pay their respects to the three
43:09
coffins in the tiny church. Two were for Temer and Stenislav,
43:14
the youngest children who had been studying traditional Ukrainian music
43:17
at a nearby school, and one was for Roman, who
43:21
was due to finish high school in weeks. That night,
43:25
a teacher laid his graduation sash across his coffin. Oxandan
43:30
Parafuniuk and Sertry Margonuf contributed to this report. Our next
43:36
item is entitled AI Creators finding Gold in flood of
43:41
fake videos by Jew Harwell Louis Talavera, a thirty one
43:46
year old blown officer in eastern Idaho, first went viral
43:49
in June with an AI generated video on tik tok
43:53
in which a fake but lifelike old man talked about
43:56
soiling himself. Within two weeks, he had used AI to
44:00
pump out ninety one more, mostly showing fake streak interviews
44:04
and jokes about fat people to an audience that has
44:07
surged past one hundred eighty thousand followers, some of whom
44:11
comment to ask if the scenes are real. The low effort,
44:15
high volume nature of AI videos has earned them the
44:18
nickname AI slot and Telavera knows his videos aren't high art,
44:24
but they earn him about five thousand dollars a month
44:26
through TikTok's creator program, he said, so every night and
44:30
weekend he spends hours churning them out. I've been on
44:33
my couch holding my three month old daughter, saying, hey,
44:36
chat GPT, we're going to create this script, he said.
44:40
Nothing has transformed or polluted the creative landscape in the
44:44
past few years quite like AI video, whose tools turn
44:49
text commands into full color footage that can look uncannily reel.
44:54
In the three years since chat GPT's launch, AI videos
44:58
have come to dominate the social webs, copying and sometimes
45:02
supplanting the human artists and videographers whose work helped train
45:06
the systems in the first place. Their power has spawned
45:10
a wild cottage industry of AI video makers, enticed by
45:14
the possibility of infinite creation from minimal work. Adele, a
45:18
twenty year old student in Florida who spoke on the
45:21
condition that only her first name be used because she
45:24
fears harassment, told The Washington Post she's taking a break
45:28
from college to focus on making money from her AI
45:30
video accounts. Another creator in Arizona, who went viral with
45:35
an AI airport kangaroo, said he made fifteen thousand dollars
45:40
in commissions in three months, speaking on the condition of
45:43
anonymity out of concern over online harassment. But the flood
45:48
of financially incentivized quote slop has given way to a
45:52
strange new Internet, where social media feeds overflow with unsuddenly
45:57
lifelike imagery and even real videos could peer suspect. Some
46:02
viroclips now barely rely on humans at all, with AI
46:06
tools generating not just the imagery but also the ideas.
46:11
I think of it more as a science than an art,
46:13
said one twenty five year old creator in Phoenix, who
46:16
uses the online name Infinite Unreality and spoke on the
46:20
condition of anonymity because he had received threats online. In reality,
46:25
there's not a whole lot of creativity happening, and whatever
46:29
creativity is happening is coming from the computer. Some of
46:34
the videos are other worldly art pieces or cartoonishly goofy satires,
46:39
carrying labels marking them as AI made, but many others
46:43
are deceptively realistic and styled as news reports, influencer posts,
46:49
or mean spirited jokes, often in hopes of be shocking
46:52
enough to grab attention and from there revenue built on
46:57
tools from America's biggest tech giants, offered free or at
47:01
low cost. The videos have touched off a kind of
47:05
existential panic among the purveyors of traditional art, fueling anxiety
47:09
that they could crowd out filmmakers, journalists, and other creators
47:13
for whom every scene takes money and time. As AI
47:18
accelerates the production of content, human creativity will inevitably feel overwhelmed,
47:24
said Tony Sampson, a senior academic at the University of
47:28
Essex who studies digital communication. AI videos don't try to
47:33
compete on authenticity, aesthetic value, or thought provoking concepts, he said. Instead,
47:39
they're pumped out an industrial speed for maximum engagement, relying
47:44
on viewer's shock and fascination to make them spread. The
47:48
creators themselves say that AI videos are inevitable regardless of
47:52
their impact, and that they enjoy experimenting on AI's cutting edge.
47:57
They are also eager to reap the rewards of massive
48:01
Juan Pablo jimen As the Mingas, a twenty nine year
48:04
old creator known online as Pablo Prompt, who works at
48:07
a university in the Canary Islands, said he has used
48:10
AI to create videos for ad campaigns and now makes
48:14
enough that he could live entirely from this work. A
48:17
few months ago, we couldn't do half the things we
48:20
can do now, he said. The technology, he added, will
48:23
help bring our ideas to life without the technical or
48:26
financial blocks that used to hold us back. A human
48:30
being just like you. The main benchmark for AI video
48:34
is known as the Will Smith eating Spaghetti test, and
48:38
it works exactly how it SATNDS. A tool's progress is
48:41
graded by how well it could make the active look
48:44
like he's showing down. In twenty twenty three, the best
48:47
versions looked muddy and deformed, noodles oozed cartoonishly, eyes bugged out.
48:54
This year's top performer, however, is practically undetectable as AI,
48:58
save for one giveaway. The fake smith makes crunching sounds
49:03
because the AI doesn't know how real spaghetti gets chewed.
49:07
The quirk in a Google made tool called vo three
49:11
actually represents a major breakthrough for AI video. Unlike past tools,
49:17
vo three generates sound for every scene, and the progress
49:21
continues rapidly. Google announced last month that the tool can
49:26
now animate any photo into a lifelike eight second clip.
49:32
Every link of the AI video supply chain has shown
49:34
extraordinary progress over the past year. Multiplying video maker's production power,
49:40
a creator might, for instance, draped video ideas and dialogue
49:44
with chat GPD, generate images with mid Journey, compose realistic
49:49
voices with eleven labs, and animated altogether with open Ai
49:54
Sora Metas movie Jen, or a smaller upstart such as
49:58
Hailuo Luma or. In the late twenty tens, amateurs used
50:03
early cludgy AI tools to splice women's faces into deep
50:07
fake pornography, soliciting money for individual requests, but the newer
50:12
tools have made the process so simple that basically anyone
50:16
can use them, as seen on Elon Musk's social network x,
50:20
where users have prompted its AI tool Rock to create
50:23
fake explicit videos of Taylor Swift. Five years ago, AI
50:28
video was nonexistent to complete garbage. One year ago it
50:33
was okay, not very usable, sort of just beginning, said
50:36
Mark Godala Maria, a co founder of the AI tool
50:40
post Cheetah, who tracks video trends, and today it's virtually
50:45
indistinguishable from reality. The shift has unleashed a barrage of
50:50
AI video onto the web. In May, four of the
50:54
ten fastest growing YouTube channels by subscribers trafficked in AI
50:58
video and annow in Sherwood News found including Masters of Prophecy,
51:04
eighty style synth wave music videos, and Chick of Honor
51:09
nonsensical animal skits. Beyond video, there is AI music. One band,
51:14
Velvet Sundown, had its AI generated folk song Dust on
51:18
the Wind, climbed to the top of Spotify's Viral fifty charts,
51:22
despite the fact that the band members don't actually exist.
51:27
A single viral hit can spawn thousands of copycats, as
51:31
with the videos of fake Roller coaster disasters, bigfoot video diaries,
51:36
jet flying babies, and Jimenez Domingas's cats flipping off a
51:40
diving board. To stand out, some creators have built AI
51:44
generated influencers with lives of viewer can follow along. Why
51:48
does everybody think I'm AI? I'm a human being just
51:52
like you guys, says the AI woman. In one sense
51:56
removed TikTok video, which was watched more than one million times.
52:01
The best performing videos, Goadalla Maria said, have often relied
52:05
on shock value, such as racist and sexist jokes depicting
52:08
black women as primates, as first reported by Wired, or
52:12
joking about what young Ai Gal's Gone Wild would do
52:16
for cash. Others have ventured into dreamlike horror. One video
52:21
showing a dog biting a woman's face off revealing a
52:24
salad has more than two hundred and fifty million views.
52:28
The major social media platforms, scared of driving viewers away,
52:33
have tried to crack down on slop accounts, using AI
52:36
tools of their own to detect and flag videos they
52:39
believe were synthetically made. YouTube last month said it would
52:43
demonetize creators for inauthentic and mass produced content, but the
52:49
systems are imperfect, and the creators can easily spin up
52:53
new accounts or just push at AI tools to pump
52:56
out videos similar to the banned ones, dodging attempts to
53:00
them out. Humans are attracted to things that are over
53:03
the top the dolla, Maria said, and AI is really
53:07
good at that slot. Money. The typical AI creator's first
53:12
dollar comes from the video platforms themselves, through the kinds
53:16
of incentive programs at TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram built to
53:20
reward viral success. Adele, the Florida student, shared a screenshot
53:25
from her TikTok account showing she had made eight hundred
53:28
eighty six dollars within four days from an AI made
53:31
video showing a fake influencer eating glass fruit. The twenty
53:35
year old said she had recently paused her psychology studies
53:38
to focus on our entrepreneurial goals, including her AI Viral Club,
53:43
which offers video making guides to roughly seventy subscribers paying
53:47
twenty nine dollars a month. I've seen a lot of
53:50
my friends have a really hard time getting jobs even
53:53
with their degree, she said. This is the future. Like Adele,
53:57
many creators have worked to diversify beyond viral payouts, selling
54:02
AI tool courses and templates to aspiring creators eager to
54:05
make their own. After an AI video showing two women
54:09
eating a Korean style mukbang when viral, its creator began
54:14
selling a fifteen dollars visual handbook on how others could
54:17
copy its style. The creator, Jalla Bennett, who uses the
54:22
account name giggle grid dot ai, said she is twenty six,
54:26
works part time in North Carolina, and just started making
54:29
AI videos this summer, seeing a chance at easy money.
54:34
The trick is to get ahead of the curb and
54:36
not be a part of the wave, she said. Many
54:39
creators also sell prompt drops listing the commands that gave
54:43
the AI to make a certain scene, while others charge
54:47
for a custom commissioned work. One creator said he is
54:50
able to charge two hundred to three hundred dollars for
54:53
a five second clip. Even bigger deals are being made.
54:58
The prediction gambling company nam Kalchi paid for a TV
55:01
commercial during the NBA Finals featuring AI people, including a
55:06
woman being battered by a hurricane, screaming their bets about
55:09
current events. Jack Sush, a Calshi spokesman, said the video
55:14
costs two thousand dollars in the AI prompting fees and
55:17
went from idea to live in less than seventy two hours,
55:21
far quicker than a traditional studio could do. The creator
55:25
PG Etc. Said high dopamine AI videos would be the
55:29
ad trend of twenty twenty five. Angst over AI has
55:34
royaled the traditional media for years, helping ignite the Hollywood
55:38
strikes in twenty twenty three and legal battles over artist's rights.
55:43
In June, US District Judge Vince Chabriya, ruling narrowly for
55:47
Meta in a lawsuit brought by authors accusing the company
55:50
of violin copyright law by training AI on their books,
55:54
said AI would dramatically undermine the incentive for human beings
55:58
to create things the old fashion way. The technology has
56:02
steadily inched its way into filmmaking. Nevertheless, Ted Sarando's co
56:07
chief of Netflix, said last month that the streamer had
56:11
recently used AI video tools for the first time to
56:14
help animate a building collapse for an Argentine sci fi show,
56:18
and that the move had been cheaper and ten times
56:21
faster than a traditional special effects crew, even for amateurs.
56:26
AI videos ease of use has spawned a global business.
56:30
Giarre U Tang, a researcher at the Queensland University of
56:33
Technology who recently interviewed creators in China, said AI video
56:38
has become one of the hottest new income opportunities there
56:41
for workers in the internet underbelly who previously made money
56:45
writing fake news articles or running spam accounts. Many university students,
56:51
stay at home, moms and the recently unemployed now see
56:54
AI video as a kind of gigwork, like driving an uber.
56:59
The average small she interviewed did their day jobs and
57:02
then at night spend two to three hours making AI
57:05
slot money. She said. A few she spoke with made
57:08
two thousand to three thousand dollars a month at it.
57:11
They see their business as internet traffic chasing, really short
57:15
term trends, some of which are three to four days long,
57:18
said Patrick Whickstrom, a professor who oversaw Tang's research. They
57:22
don't really care about if this is morally sound or
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if this is creative, the chasing the traffic, the chasing
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the next thing. They just want to be entertained. For
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the AI video creator Darryl Anzelmo, this moment recalls a
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similarly massive shift known as the Demo scene, an underground
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movement in the nineties built on computer nerds tinkering with
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real time three D graphics before Toy Story and the
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Sony PlayStation made them mainstream. That era, too, stirred up
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apprehension among animators over the death of art. It also
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turned out a lot of slow but the long time
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video game artist has nevertheless gone all in on AI video,
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believing it offers a revolutionary new kind of artistic freedom.
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Due to time constraints, we will need to end this
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item at this time. This concludes the reading of the
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Washington Post for to Day Tuesday, August nineteenth, twenty twenty five.
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