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Jeanine Herbst (0:19)
In Washington, I'm Jeanine Herbst. The United States has given Ukraine and Russia a June deadline to reach an agreement to end Moscow's nearly four year old war. That's according to Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky. NPR's Eleanor Beardsley has more.
Eleanor Beardsley (0:35)
President Volodymyr Zelensky says the U.S. plans to pressure both sides to meet the timeline to end the near four year war in less than four months. He also said the US And Russia are preparing to sign an economic deal worth $12 trillion after Russia presented the US with a lucrative proposal. Zelensky says the plan was uncovered by Ukrainian intelligence. He says Ukraine is ready to make concessions to end the war, but it must be on acceptable terms. Ukraine Ukrainians say Russia has never wavered from its maximalist demands, yet Trump treats both the victim and aggressor as equally responsible. Eleanor Beardsley, NPR News, Izium, Ukraine.
Jeanine Herbst (1:13)
Just days after the Washington Post announced it would lay off more than 300 journalists, that's around 30% of its staff. Embattled publisher and CEO Will Lewis says he's leaving his job after two years. It's a tenure marked by controversy and crisis. Louis A. Brit came under withering criticism from his staff for a lack of transparency and he no visible role in announcing the layoffs. And he was then photographed the next evening in Northern California walking the red carpet at a pre super bowl event. That reduction in staff gutted the paper's sports, local news and international coverage. Lewis has experimented with several ways to transform the paper, including using AI for comments, podcasts and news aggregation. He warned staff two years ago the paper was losing a lot of money. The Post's CFO, Jeff D' Onofrio, will take over as acting publisher and CEO. The U.S. education Department is telling colleges to stop using student voting data in research. The department says it's investigating researchers at Tufts University and the National Student Clearinghouse for allegedly sharing college students data with third parties to influence elections. From member station wgbh, Kirk Carapeza has more.
Linda McMahon (2:28)
In a statement, education secretary Linda McMahon says, quote, American colleges and universities should be focused on teaching, learning and research, not influencing elections. Tufts declined to comment, but says it's received the department's letter and is reviewing it. Lynn Pascarella is president of the American association of Colleges and Universities. She says what's unusual here isn't government oversight.