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NPR News: 02-07-2026 5PM EST

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🗓️ 7 February 2026

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0:00.0

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Hirst. The U.S. has given Ukraine and Russia a June

0:07.8

deadline to reach agreement to end the nearly four-year war. That's according to Ukraine's

0:13.1

president, Volodymyr Zelensky. MPIRs Eleanor Beardsley reports. President Volodymyr Zelensky

0:18.5

says the U.S. plans to pressure both sides to meet the timeline to

0:22.5

end the near four-year war in less than four months. He also said the U.S. and Russia are preparing to

0:28.7

sign an economic deal worth $12 trillion after Russia presented the U.S. with a lucrative proposal.

0:35.4

Zelensky says the plan was uncovered by Ukrainian intelligence.

0:39.0

He says Ukraine is ready to make concessions to end the war, but it must be on acceptable terms.

0:44.6

Ukrainians say Russia has never wavered from its maximalist demands, yet Trump treats both the

0:49.8

victim and aggressor as equally responsible. Eleanor Beardsley, NPR News, is Yume, Ukraine.

0:55.6

A federal judge told the Trump administration,

0:58.7

it can't withhold billions of federal dollars

1:01.5

for the New York, New Jersey Gateway Tunnel Project,

1:04.6

while a legal challenge plays out.

1:06.9

As M. Pierce-Tammer Keith reports,

1:08.7

there's a bizarre naming rights dispute now wrapped up in that freeze.

1:13.2

The White House put a hold on the project's funding in October.

1:16.5

Then this past week, several news outlets reported the White House had told Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York

1:22.7

that the president would release the funds if Schumer helped rename New York City's main train station

1:29.2

and an airport near Washington, D.C. after Trump. Asked about it on Air Force One, Trump didn't

1:35.6

entirely dismiss the idea. Chuck Schumer suggested that to me about changing the name of

1:41.4

Penn Station to Trump Station. In a post on X, Schumer disputed Trump's account saying, quote,

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