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Palmer. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Spear. Two NASA astronauts are home after more than nine months in space,

Bush, Wilmore, and Sonny Williams splashed down just moments ago in their SpaceX capsule off the coast of Florida.

A recovery vessel is en route. Following a highly anticipated phone call today, President Trump and

Russian leader Vladimir Putin agreed to a partial ceasefire in Ukraine, yet the two leaders failed to agree Trump's more expansive ceasefire and peace proposals.

NPR's Charles Mainz reports.

Both the White House and the Kremlin praised talks between Putin and Trump as an open-in-franck two-and-a-half-hour exchange focused on Ukraine and U.S. Russian relations.

The most significant outcome, Putin agreed to a 30-day halt on strikes on all energy

infrastructure in Ukraine. However, the talks fell short on Trump's proposal for a wider ceasefire

in all land, sea, and air attacks, a proposal Kiev had previously accepted. A Kremlin's

statement maintains any broader

resolution would hinge on an end to all Western military aid and intelligence support to Ukraine,

but that's an unlikely scenario given Kiev currently receives backing from not only the U.S.

but its allies in Europe. Charles Mainz, NPR News. A federal judges ruled Alon Musk in his government cost-cutting

entity Doge likely violated the Constitution in dismantling the United States Agency for International

Development. MPR's Fat Matan, that says more. More than two dozen current or recently fired employees

of USAID sued Elon Musk and Doge, challenging the accelerated shutdown of the agency.

In a 68-page opinion, U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang ruled in favor of the plaintiffs and ordered Doge to reinstate email access to current agency employees and blocked them from taking any actions relating to the agency without

the approval of a duly appointed USAID officer. The judge said the actions to shut down USAID and

permanently close its headquarters and that it, quote, deprived Congress of their constitutional

authority over an agency created by Congress.

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