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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine 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.
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 U.S. and Russia are preparing to sign an economic deal worth $12 trillion. after Russia presented the U.S. 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. 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, Izyum, Ukraine.
Just days after The Washington Post announced it would lay off more than 300 journalists, that's around 30 percent 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.
Lewis, a Brit, came under withering criticism from his staff for a lack of transparency, and he played 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.
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Chapter 2: What recent developments have occurred in the Ukraine-Russia conflict?
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 said, 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. For Member Station WGBH, Kirk Carapazza has more.
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 Pasquarella is president of the American Association of Colleges and Universities.
She says what's unusual here isn't government oversight.
We've come to expect that, but it's the idea that nonpartisan research on civic participation could be treated as suspect simply because it relates to voting.
Conservatives defending the investigation say the Biden administration funded voter outreach efforts run by explicitly left-wing groups.
Kirker Peraza from GBH reporting. This is NPR. It's been a tough first day for U.S. skiers in the Italian Alps as competition at the Winter Olympics gets underway. In men's downhill racing and a women's cross-country ski race, U.S. athletes finished well out of medal range. Empire's Brian Mann has more from Milan.
U.S. cross-country skier Jessie Diggins is a big medal favorite at these Olympics. But in her first 20-kilometer outing, she finished more than two minutes behind Sweden's Frida Karlsson, who captured gold in a dominant performance. Diggins collapsed in the snow after the final sprint. Her best shot at a medal comes next week in a shorter 10K race. In the downhill, U.S.
men's alpine racers Bryce Bennett and Ryan Cochran-Siegel also finished well off the podium with the medals going to skiers from Switzerland and Italy. The top U.S. finisher Kyle Negomir finished 10th place. The U.S. goes at it again tomorrow when Lindsey Vaughn and Breezy Johnson ski the downhill in Cortina. Johnson finished first and Vaughn in third place in their training runs today.
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