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and Jared Kushner are describing their first face-to-face meeting with Ukraine's President
Vladimir Zelensky as "substantia." Whitcock said he was very encouraged by the direction of the talks to end Russia's four and a half year-long war with Ukraine. The meeting followed in earlier session in the Kremlin with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Kushner spoke with ABC.
“These are some of the hardest problems that's in the world, and I think that you have to”
try, and you have to bring to it. Obviously, Steve and I bring different approaches to these things, but we work very well together as partners, but we're not bringing our approaches. We're really representing President Trump, and we're doing it the way that he wants to see these things done. For his part, President Zelensky insisted before the meeting that any peace agreement must include security guarantees for Ukraine and what he called a dignified post-war peace. In Germany,
the far-right alternative for Germany Party has won the most votes in a closely-watched regional election. Exit polls currently show the parties have to have a lead of about 25 points, but as as menicklson reports, it's unclear whether that party has enough seats to govern. Speaking to public broadcasts at the FAFD Federal Leader, Ilyse Vidal said Chancellor Friedrich
Merz's conservative Christian Democrats will never win another election. We're seeing explosive growth
“here, she said, referring to the state of Saxony and Halt. We're going to see explosive growth”
across all of East Germany, and at the Federal level too, she said. The AFD candidate responsible for that growth is always a segment of former salesmen with a radical platform, promising mass deportations, the segregation of refugees children and schools, and closer relations with Russia and the MAGA movement in the US. While it's not yet clear whether the AFD can rule out right, Zeke Mont declared we have written
history, and thanked Friedrich Merz for being a very good campaigner for the AFD. For MPI News, I'm Esmond Nicholson in Berlin. Miami Fire Officials said there are multiple patients after a cargo plane crash at Miami International Airport, NPR's Shondalee's Duster reports. The FAA says an Amazon Prime airplane was landing when it overshot the Miami International Airport runway around 2 o'clock PM local time once
Sunday. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue says the plane struck multiple vehicles and caught fire. There are "multiple patients" and more than 60 units working to distinguish the fire, Miami-Dade Fire Rescue also said. The Miami-Dade Aviation Department said all runways and taxiways at the airport were closed as of 3 o'clock PM and a ground stop had been issued until 5 o'clock PM local time. An Amazon spokesperson says the company's priority is the safety,
well-being and care of everyone involved. The FAA says it will investigate the crash, Shondalee's Duster and PR News. It's NPR. The maker of the smart rings called aura is preparing to go public in what could be a blockbuster IPO. The company's first financial disclosures shows a massive trove of personal data and a very loyal base of subscribers willing to pay a monthly fee.
NPR Salena Saluka reports. The aura ring has been writing the wellness trend to sell 3.6
billion rings in the past year. That's according to the company's new disclosures ahead of the
public listing on the NASDAQ. Or a spitch is that it tracks over 50 metrics like the heart rates, stress levels, sleep patterns. It also sells a subscription for about $6 a month to be able to see most of that data. The company's filing says aura has, quote, "amassed one of the largest and highest quality longitudinal biometric data sets in consumer health, representing nearly 42 billion hours of physiological data." Or says it's revenue doubled from 2024 to 2025 and seems on track to do
that again this year. Alina Saluk and PR News. The price of a gallon of diesel fuel it hit another record today at a nationwide average of 5.89. This is according to Triple A. California has the most expensive diesel fuel in the nation. It's $7.81 a gallon. Diesel is the main fuel in both the trucking and the freight rail industries and the higher prices are causing trucking companies, the railroads and freight brokers to pass along much of the higher prices of the fuel to shippers.
“Diesel is also very important to the agriculture industry and the elevated cost of not only diesel”
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