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  • Americans are living longer than ever before.

  • On the Sunday Story from Up First,

  • we look at a growing number of people using these extra years to find new meaning.

  • You get to the point where you start asking, what did you do in your life that was significant?

  • A look at the transformative power of human passion and finding your purpose in the third act of life.

  • Listen now on the Up First podcast from NPR.

  • Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Giles Snyder.

  • Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke today in a video address from Kyiv's Independence Square.

  • Ukraine is celebrating its annual Independence Day for the fourth time

  • since Russia's full-scale invasion began.

  • The BBC's Katie Watson is in Kyiv.

  • It's 34 years since Ukraine declared its independence from the Soviet Union.

  • Traditionally a day of parades and festivities,

  • but because of the war, celebrations have become more subdued.

  • Overnight, meanwhile,

  • Russian officials say a fire was put out at a nuclear power plant in the western Kursk region.

  • A Ukrainian drone that was shot down detonated when it fell and damaged a transformer.

  • But the plant reported that radiation levels were normal and there were no casualties.

  • The International Atomic Energy Agency has repeatedly urged both Russia and Ukraine to show maximum restraint around nuclear facilities in the wall.

  • President Trump's special representative to Ukraine, Keith Kellogg,