US Will Drop Ukraine Peace Efforts If No Progress Made in Coming Days: Rubio; Meloni Meets Vance in Rome

The United States is optimistic it can put an end to the war between Russia and Ukraine, Vice President JD Vance said on Friday, as he met Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni for the second time in 24 hours. Meanwhile, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that the United States may “move on” from trying to secure a Russia–Ukraine peace deal if there is no progress in the coming days. “It’s not our war,” Rubio said. “We have other priorities to focus on.” He said the U.S. government would decide its course “in a matter of days.”

More than 10,000 pages of previously classified government records related to the 1968 assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy were released by the Trump administration on Friday.

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2. Rubio Warns US May Drop Ukraine Peace Efforts if No Progress Made
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4. Maryland Senator Meets Deported Salvadoran Man Abrego Garcia
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