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Find us wherever you get your podcasts. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Spear. President Trump says he expects to know soon if Russian President Vladimir Putin is serious about ending the war in Ukraine. As NPR's Greg Meier explains, Trump has been increasingly critical of the Russian leader in recent days. President Trump says he still believes a ceasefire is possible in the Russia-Ukraine war. But he wants a clear answer from Putin within the next two weeks. We're gonna find out whether or not he's tapping us along or not and if he is we'll respond a little bit differently. Trump has criticized Putin

for a series of heavy airstrikes on Ukraine in recent days. The US president is threatening additional sanctions but has not taken any action. Ukraine says Russia is stalling for time with no intention of agreeing to a truce. Russia, meanwhile, is calling for a new round of ceasefire talks next week in Turkey. Greg Myhre, NPR News, Washington. New York and 15 other states are suing the Trump administration over its actions to drastically cut funding for the National Science Foundation. CNPR's Jeff Bromfield reports the suit seeks to restore money to universities. The lawsuit was filed in the Southern District of New York by a coalition of state's attorneys

general. Led by New York and Hawaii, the group says the administration violated the law when it halted funding to programs that increased participation of women and minorities in science. The suit argues that those programs were mandated by Congress. It also seeks to repeal a 15% limit on so-called indirect costs associated with research grants. The Trump administration has said it believes the NSF must refocus purely on fundamental research. it believes the NSF must refocus purely on fundamental research, it's seeking to slash the science foundation's budget next year in half.

Jeff Brumfield, NPR News. Nearly three out of four Americans say they are doing okay financially, even though many are still concerned about rising prices. NPR's Scott Horstley reports on the latest survey from the Fed. The Fed's annual snapshot offers a fairly stable picture of economic well-being in the U.S. It's based on a survey conducted last fall, shortly before the November election. 73% of those surveyed said they were living comfortably, or at least doing okay. Four out of five said they'd adjusted their behavior in response to higher prices.

63% of those polled said they could cover an unexpected $400 bill using savings down slightly from 2021, when bank accounts were padded with pandemic relief payments. More than six in ten people who changed jobs last year said they found a better job, though that was down from 72 percent who said so during the Great Reshuffling a couple of years earlier. Scott Horsley in Pear News, Washington. There's a new boss at Chrysler parent company Stellantis, the company announcing that Antonio Filosa,

who's currently the chief operating officer for the car company, will take over as CEO effective June 23rd. He replaces Carlos Tavares, who resigned last year. The Dow was down 244 points. This is NPR. A federal judge in New York wasted little time in rejecting a defense request for a mistrial in the sex trafficking and racketeering case of music mogul Sean Diddy Combs. Request came with the trial now in its third week in Manhattan courtroom.

Prosecutors posed questions to an L.A. fire department investigator that could imply to the jury. Combs interfered in the probe of another rapper's fire-bombed car, where the judge later told jurors to disregard questions related to destroyed fingerprint cards. Every year, 140,000 people die from snake bites. At the World Health Assembly that ended this week in Geneva, global health experts gathered to discuss the problem. Sen. P.R.S.

Jonathan Lambert explains that an issue began with large statues of snakes. Venomous snake bites aren't often at the top of the global health agenda. But each year, millions of people get bitten, often far away from anti-venom treatment. To raise awareness, a new initiative called Strike Out Snake Bites scattered human-sized snake statues throughout Geneva. They were pretty spectacularly colored and colorful and pretty large. They certainly, I think, attracted lots of attention. That's David Lalu, vice chancellor of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.

Going forward, he says the initiative aims to boost funding for anti-venom research and help bolster health systems so they can get bitten people to treatment before it's too late. Jonathan Lambert, NPR News. Crypto futures prices moved higher today after OPEC and its allies opted to at least for now leave output policy unchanged. Oil rose 90.5 cents a barrel to settle at 61.84 a barrel in New York. I'm Jack Spear, NPR News in Washington.