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Live from NPR News, I'm Janine Herbst. Final preparations are underway for tomorrow's SNAP summit meeting between President Trump and Russian President Putin. MPR's Charles Mainz reports, while the talks are expected to focus on Russia's war in Ukraine, the Kremlin is casting these talks as a broader opportunity to address Russia's trade and defense concerns. President Putin gathered his top advisors ahead of the summit to inform them of preparations for the talks. In brief televised remarks, Putin thanked the Trump administration for what Putin called its sincere efforts to end the war in Ukraine. That comes as Trump, as revived demands for a ceasefire and threaten punishing sanctions if Russia fails to agree to one. Yet Putin suggested the two sides used their time together in Alaska to also discuss arms control. And separately, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said huge untapped potential for Russian-American economic cooperation would also be on the docket.

Charles Mainz, NPR News, Moscow. Residents in Washington, D.C.'s most dangerous neighborhoods say they welcome more law enforcement, but they question whether President Trump's deployment of soldiers and federal agents is a solution. And Pierce Frank Langford has more from the nation's capital. Aaron lives in Congress Heights in a section of D.C. where there have been 38 homicides so far this year. But Aaron, who asked NPR not to reveal his last name, to protect his federal government job, is skeptical. the National Guard troops who aren't trained in law enforcement will help. I would have loved to have seen maybe more funding for police

or maybe getting some of the command folks behind the desk and put them out on the street for presence. Instead, Aaron says he thinks Trump is making a show of force to embarrass a Democratic-led city instead of addressing the capital's very real crime problem in a lasting way. Frank Langford, NPR News, Washington. As artificial intelligence starts to take over entry-level programming jobs, the once-reliable pipeline from a computer science degree to a well-paying tech job is

starting to fade. And Pierce Windsor-Johnston reports on how automation is reshaping opportunities and expectations for a new generation of coders. The promise used to be simple. Learn to code, get a six-figure job. But for many computer science grads, that's not always a guarantee. Robert Siemens is a professor at New York University's Stern School of Business. He says, shying away from art official intelligence is a mistake. Don't ignore this new technology. Don't ignore the large language models. Instead, work with them.

Lean into the technology. Try to be creative in terms of how you use it. Experiment with it. Be creative. Experts say the trend may be permanent, and it's forcing students and universities to rethink what it means to be job-ready in an AI-saturated industry.

Windsor Johnston NPR News. Wall Street ended the day in mixed territory. down 11 points. The NASDAQ down two. This is NPR News. The Supreme Court today temporarily refused to block a Mississippi state law requiring the country's biggest social media companies to verify the age of users or get parental consent. The state says the law is intended to protect children from online predators. This after Net Choice, a coalition of several social media companies, including Facebook, Instagram, and X, sued, claiming it violates users. users' First Amendment rights. The High Court held that the social media companies didn't

sufficiently demonstrate that they would be harmed by a temporary order that favors the state. The former CEO of Nike and his wife are donating $2 billion to the Oregon Health and Science University to improve cancer care. NPR's Rob Stein has more. Phil Knight and his wife Penny say they are making the gift to establish the university's new Knight Cancer Institute. The Knights say this is the single largest donation. ever made to a U.S. University College or Academic Health Center. They hope the donation will help transform care for cancer patients and establish the center as a cancer treatment hub globally. They specifically hope to support the work of Dr. Brian Drucker, a physician scientist known for

helping develop Glevic, a drug that helped transform the treatment of patients with chronic myeloid leukemia. Rob Stein and P.R. News. After closing flat today, U.S. futures contracts are trading higher. Dow futures are up nearly four-tenths of a percent. NASDAQ futures are down nearly two-tenths of a percent. I'm Janine Herbst, and you're listening to NPR News from Washington.