First impressions are always important.
That's not just for dates or for your in-laws.
At the NPR Politics Podcast,
we know that first impressions are important for any presidential term, too.
So all this month, we're reviewing the first 100 days of Donald Trump's second stint,
what's been done, what's to come, and what might change.
Politics may not always make sense, but we'll sort it out for you over on the NPR Politics Podcast.
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It appears that efforts are back on track to revive peace talks between Ukraine and Russia.
President Trump held a brief discussion with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the Vatican yesterday.
They were both there to attend the funeral of Pope Francis.
NPR's Asma Khalid reports the White House has offered few details about what the two leaders discussed.
President Trump has been eager to end the now three-year war in Ukraine.
And so the Trump administration has been pushing a deal that seems to favor Russia.
But on social media yesterday, he had a post in which he criticized his Russian counterpart,
saying there was no reason for Putin to be shooting missiles into civilian areas.
President Trump also questioned whether Putin was indeed really serious about wanting to end the war and suggested maybe he ought to put sanctions on Russia.
The first black labor secretary in U.S. history has died.
NPR's Tom Dreisbach reports Alexis Herman served in the administrations of both Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton and is being remembered as a trailblazer for civil rights.
Alexis Herman was born in Mobile, Alabama in 1947 during Jim Crow.