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Essentially upending U.S. supportive Ukraine in its war against Russia's invasion,

President Donald Trump today, said he and Russian president, Vladimir Putin,

have agreed to begin negotiations toward ending the conflict.

Trump saying he and Putin will, quote, work together very close to the end the war and will

eventually meet in person. I'll be dealing with President Putin largely on the phone,

and we ultimately expect to meet. In fact, we expect that he'll come here and I'll go there,

and we're going to meet also probably in Saudi Arabia the first time.

We'll meet in Saudi Arabia to see if we can get something done.

Trump said he's also spoken to Ukrainian president, Vladimir Zelensky.

White House officials, however, declined to say whether Ukraine would be party to the negotiations,

indicating a deal might be made by Washington and

Moscow to try to end the fighting. Critics of Alon Musk say his push to shut down the Consumer

Financial Protection Bureau could benefit one of his companies. S&PR's Bobby Allen explains,

the agency was working to regulate digital wallets, and Musk's X platform is set to release a digital

wallet service. It's called X Money. set to release a digital wallet service.

It's called X money.

Musk announced last month that the service has partnered with Visa.

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