The push for a negotiated end to the nearly 4-year war hit another stalemate this week, after a 5-hour meeting in Moscow between U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, and Russian President Vladimir Putin, ultimately producing no results.
The Kremlin described the talks as constructive, but said compromises had not yet been found.
Republican Matt Van Epps was projected to win a special election yesterday to fill a vacant U.S. House of Representatives seat.
Van Epps thanked Trump multiple times following his projected victory, padding the leader in the chamber heading into next year’s midterm elections.
Van Epps is a former commissioner of the Tennessee Department of General Services and defeated Democratic opponent, state Representative Aftyn Behn.
President Trump held his ninth Cabinet meeting of the year on Tuesday, as scrutiny grows over a deadly boat strike in the Caribbean.
Some lawmakers claim Secretary of War Pete Hegseth ordered a second strike that killed two survivors, calling it a war crime.
Hegseth denies it, saying Admiral Frank Bradley made the call and that it was the right decision under the “fog of war.”
Trump defended the strikes, saying they saved hundreds of thousands of American lives, and warned that land strikes on cartels are coming soon, not just in Venezuela, but in any country sending illicit drugs into the U.S.
