Good evening. I'm Omna Nawaz. And I'm Jeff Bennett. On the news hour tonight, highly anticipated peace talks between Russia and Ukraine fall flat less than two hours in, with few signs of progress and both countries' presidents, notably absent.

As President Trump returns from a foreign trip marked by lavish displays and deal-making,

a look at how the Trump family could be profiting off the presidency.

It's sort of impossible for us to know if it's influencing U.S. foreign policy.

And that's pretty troubling and pretty unusual in American history.

And a medical breakthrough.

A baby born with a rare deadly disorder becomes the first to receive personalized gene

editing treatment.

Welcome to the News Hour.

Today, senior Russian and Ukrainian officials did something they have not done in more than three years,

sat across from each other and talked.

Since their last negotiation, more than one million people have been killed or wounded.

Today, the two sides agreed to exchange a thousand prisoners. That would be the war's largest swap. And they agreed to keep talking. But beyond that, there were no breakthrough. And in some

respect, the two sides seem even further apart than when they started. Nick Schifrin begins our

coverage.

Today in Istanbul, foes finally faced each other.

Senior Ukrainian Russian officials haven't been this close in nearly 1,200 days.

But by the end of the meeting, they've never been further apart.

There were a number of things that, of course, were unacceptable,

but again, Ukrainian delegation took it with a very calm posture.

The last time Ukraine and Russia negotiated, in March 22,

in the exact same location as today's talks,

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