This NPR News episode covers high-stakes diplomatic efforts to end the war in Ukraine, a rare Republican midterm convention headlined by Trump, inflation and gas price concerns impacting U.S. consumers, and a lighthearted report on stolen Guinness and gorilla naming in Rwanda. The episode
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