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CNN  —  US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky held crunch war talks in the heart of the Vatican minutes before the start of the funeral of Pope Francis on Saturday, as the White House mounts an increasingly urgent push to strike a peace deal in Ukraine. Photographs released by the Ukrainian presidency showed the two leaders huddled in close discussion without aides in the ornate surroundings of St. Peter’s Basilica. Zelensky thanked Trump for the “good meeting” in a post on social media. “We discussed a lot one on one. Hoping for results on everything we covered,”…

CNN  —  Body-worn cameras show chaos and confusion in the moments leading up to the officer involved shooting of Weezer bassist Scott Shriner’s wife, Jillian Shriner. In the heated moments before Shriner was shot on April 8, police officers are seen in the videos behind a tall fence yelling at Shriner to put down her gun as loud helicopters circle overhead. The newly released videos from the LAPD come two weeks after Shriner was arrested for suspicion of attempted murder of a police officer. The videos were edited by the LAPD and released Friday. The compilation of surveillance and body-worn…

Panelists Ben Levisohn, Jacob Sonenshine and Megan Leonhardt take a look at the thrift trend and share top stock picks on ‘Barron’s Roundtable.’ Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Friday that Beijing backs international rules when it comes to tariffs imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump and that the U.S. levies show “extreme egoism.” The foreign minister made the comments while he was in Kazakhstan for a China-Central Asia foreign ministers meeting.Wang stressed that Beijing opposes protectionism amid the trade war with the U.S. sparked by Trump’s tariffs on China and many other countries. He explained that China would look…

CNN  —  Russia has regained control of Kursk, the border region where Ukraine launched a surprise offensive last year, President Vladimir Putin said, in what would mark a major boost for Moscow at a crucial time in the war. “The Kyiv regime’s adventure has completely failed,” Putin said Saturday, congratulating the Russian forces that he said defeated the Ukrainian military in the region. There has been no immediate reaction from Kyiv on Putin’s claim and CNN is unable to independently verify battlefield reports. Earlier on Saturday, the general staff of Ukraine’s armed forces said that Ukrainian troops were still operating…

CNN  —  When American teenager Kerri Cunningham was dragged by her parents to Europe in the summer of 1993, she was less than impressed. Dragged might sound like dramatic wording, but that’s how 14-year-old Kerri saw it at the time. Kerri reacted to the vacation plans “from the teenage point of view of ‘Oh, it’s taking away from my summer break, and I want to hang out with my friends.’” Leaving her beachside hometown in the Hamptons, in New York, was the last thing she wanted. “I was dreading the trip,” Kerri tells CNN Travel today. Looking back today, Kerri…

Editor’s Note: President Donald Trump has repeatedly suggested the United States should acquire additional land by purchase, agreement, coercion – and he hasn’t ruled out using military force. Yet some promises for bold action are coming up short. This is Part 3 of an in-depth, contemporaneous look at the first 100 days of Trump’s second term. CNN  —  “Shit, it’s cold here!” Vice President JD Vance chooses the perfect introductory words for his brief visit to Greenland, if he were a tourist just in for some laughs and an Instagram moment. But as the highest-ranking official of the United States…

New York CNN  —  It’s been a wild few days for the US economy. President Donald Trump’s jabs at Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell are affecting markets. Investors are ringing alarm bells with the assets they’re buying and mostly selling – and suddenly making comparisons to the Great Depression. And everyone from the International Monetary Fund to Trump’s billionaire friends are issuing stark warnings about his massive tariffs. Here’s what you might have missed this week. Presidential relationships can change, but Trump has taken that to an extreme. After calling the Fed chair (whom he appointed in 2018) “a major…

CNN  —  Construction of the world’s tallest unoccupied skyscraper may resume as early as next week, almost 10 years after work ground to a halt, according to Chinese state media. The 597-meter-tall (1,959-foot) Goldin Finance 117, which topped out in the northern Chinese port city of Tianjin but has stood unfinished since 2015 amid major financial difficulties, is now expected to complete in 2027. At 117 stories high, the tower was set to be China’s tallest skyscraper when it broke ground in 2008. The soaring structure was built using “mega columns” to protect against strong winds and earthquakes, while its…

CNN  —  One victim had recently returned home after decades working abroad to enjoy a retirement filled with travel and family time; another hoped the trip into the beauty of Indian-administered Kashmir would cheer the spirits of his semi-paralyzed wife. Both men were among 26 tourists shot dead by militants this week in a massacre that has ripped open old wounds between India and its neighbor Pakistan, tipping them a step closer to military escalation. Both countries claim Kashmir in its entirety, but each control only part. They have fought three wars over the territory – which is famous for…

Francis – who chose his papal name after Francis of Assisi, the Italian saint who renounced his family wealth and championed the poor – took steps while he was alive to simplify the rites around his death to make them more “down to earth.” The Vatican said the funeral will follow the rites laid out in the “Ordo Exsequiarum Romani Pontificis.” This liturgical book, detailing the procedures following the death of a pope, was published in 2000 and revised by Francis last year. Some of those revisions have already been on display. Unlike after previous papal deaths, Francis’ body was…