In this episode of The President's Daily Brief:

• President Trump speaks with Vladimir Putin today, pushing for a 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine. But Russia isn’t budging—demanding “ironclad” guarantees that Ukraine will never join NATO as part of any deal.

• The U.S. ramps up airstrikes on Yemen’s Houthis, keeping the pressure on the Iran-backed terror group as its sponsors in Tehran vow retaliation.

• Venezuela blasts the White House for deporting hundreds of Tren de Aragua gang members to El Salvador, calling the move illegal.

• And in today’s Back of the Brief—after years of dismissing it as a conspiracy theory, The New York Times is finally acknowledging what many have suspected all along: a lab accident in China may have been the real origin of COVID-19.

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