U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner arrived in Moscow for renewed peace talks as Russia launched overnight strikes across Ukraine. Ukrainian officials said at least five people were killed at an industrial site in Dnipropetrovsk region.
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Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner have arrived in Moscow, according to Russian media, with a U.S. proposal to end the war in Ukraine. They are expected to travel to Kyiv for talks with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy amid intensified Russian and Ukrainian aerial attacks.
Senior U.S. military officials were subjected to polygraph tests as part of a leak investigation into classified information about weapons stockpiles. CBS News reported that no one failed questions aimed at identifying media leaks.
Serena and Venus Williams lost a three-set first-round U.S. Open women’s doubles match to Maya Joint and Hao-Ching Chan after leading 5-0 in the deciding tiebreak. The sisters were playing together at the tournament for the first time since 2022.
Explosions at a Bolivian military facility storing pyrotechnic material killed at least 10 people, injured dozens and left seven missing, authorities said. Officials warned residents to stay away from the Viacha base because of the risk of another blast.
EU enlargement commissioner Marta Kos canceled a planned Serbia visit, condemning honors surrounding the return of convicted war criminal Ratko Mladić’s remains to Belgrade. Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić rejected her criticism as Mladić’s funeral plans moved ahead.
A Massachusetts judge declared a mistrial in Lindsay Clancy’s murder case after jurors could not reach a unanimous verdict. Prosecutors have not said whether they will retry the former nurse accused of killing her three young children.
Jeffrey Mosteller, a former safety manager at Michigan’s Oxford Center, was sentenced to 19 months in prison after pleading no contest to involuntary manslaughter in the hyperbaric chamber death of 5-year-old Thomas Cooper. Three other former employees are awaiting trial, and the boy’s parents are seeking $100 million in a civil lawsuit.