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 Volodymy 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, is Yume, Ukraine.

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. 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.

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 CFO, Jeff Donofrio, will take over as acting publisher and CEO.

The U.S. Education Department is telling colleges to stop using student voting data in research.

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