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  • Alex Drueke and APR Notebook host, Pat Duggins
    Commentary
    Alex Drueke, on the frontlines in the war in Ukraine
    Pat Duggins
    APR news has covered the war between Ukraine and Russia a lot. When President Joe Biden said, ‘We will walk softly and carry a big javelin,’ he was paraphrasing Teddy Roosevelt and his saying about carrying ‘a big stick.’ Biden was also giving a nod to the Lockheed Martin plant in Troy, that Alabama factory makes the shoulder fired anti-tank missiles. And then there's the perspective of Alex Drueke.
  • FILE - In this Friday, May 13, 2011 file photo, Soldiers of 1AD attend a color casing ceremony of the First Armored Division at the US Army Airfield in Wiesbaden, Germany. After more than a year of thinly veiled threats that the United States could start pulling troops out of Germany unless the country increases its defense spending to NATO standards, President Donald Trump appears to be going ahead with the hardball approach with a plan to reduce the American military presence in the country by more than 25 percent. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, file)
    News
    Alabama lawmaker says Trump plan to withdraw U.S. troops from Germany may send the “wrong signal”
    Pat Duggins, The Associated Press
    Germany's defense minister on Saturday appeared to take in stride a Pentagon announcement that the United States plans to pull some 5,000 troops out of the country, President Donald Trump's latest attempt to reduce America's commitment to European security. One key U.S. lawmaker from Alabama has questions, too.
  • Alla Sadovnyk, Chief Editor of the Investigative Department of the Public Broadcasting Company of Ukraine, presents APR news director Pat Duggins with a book of war inspired poetry from her country, as well as a flag of Ukraine. The presentation follows Duggins' talk to Sadovnyk's delegation of the U.S. State Department's International Visitor Leadership Program.
    News
    A personal reaction to the White House incident between Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy
    Pat Duggins, Associated Press
    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has thanked the American people and leadership and voiced hope for "strong relations," a day after an astonishing Oval Office blowout with U.S. President Donald Trump that left many uncertain where the once staunch allies stood. APR contacted a fellow journalist in Ukraine for her perspective.
  • Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrives and is greeted by Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., before addressing Congress during his first trip outside his country since Russia invaded in February, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
    News
    WATCH LIVE ON APR-- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as he addresses Congress
    WATCH LIVE ON APR-- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as he addresses a joint session of the U.S. Congress. The Senate is inching closer to passing a $1.7 trillion government funding bill. Supporters are pointing to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's visit to Washington
  • News
    From Chernobyl, to 'Bama, and Back (Part 2)
    Pat Duggins
    "The Inside Man"-- Next Monday marks 35 years since the Soviet nuclear plant disaster that became known as Chernobyl. Yesterday on APR, we met the Lee…
  • News
    From Chernobyl, to 'Bama, and Back
    Pat Duggins
    Next week marks 35 years since the Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster. The 1986 explosion in the Soviet nation of Ukraine sent radioactive fallout drifting north over the neighboring country of Belarus. That’s where families in Alabama stepped in. During the years 1999 and 2000, over 200 Belarusian children were flown to the state for medical treatment and a chance to get away from the shadow of Chernobyl. APR and the University of Alabama's Center for Public Television collaborated on this coverage. "Children of Chernobyl" may have occured 20 years ago, but the story is still unfolding.