A strike by New Jersey transit train engineers leaves about 350,000 commuters to seek other means to reach their destinations or consider staying home during Friday’s rush hour.
The first direct peace talks between Russia and Ukraine since the early weeks of Moscow’s 2022 invasion ended Friday after less than two hours, and a senior Ukrainian official said the Russian side introduced new “unacceptable demands.”
Before they adjourned, Kyiv and Moscow agreed to exchange 1,000 prisoners of war each, according to the heads of both delegations, in what would be their biggest such swap since the war began.
Both sides also discussed a ceasefire and a meeting between their heads of state, according to Chief Ukrainian Delegate Rustem Umerov.
Police in Slovenia are investigating the disappearance of a bronze statue of the U.S. First Lady Melania Trump that was sawed off and carried away from her hometown.
The life-size sculpture was unveiled in 2020 during President Donald Trump’s first term in office near Sevnica in central Slovenia, where Melanija Knavs was born in 1970. It replaced a wooden statue that had been set on fire earlier that year.
Sabrina Thompson can be reached at thom4836@stthomas.edu.
