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The U.S. and Russia say they are restoring embassy staffing in each other's capitals and working toward ending the Kremlin's nearly three-year-old war in Ukraine.

Today's high-level meeting in Saudi Arabia underscored President Trump's shift away from the last three years of U.S. policy that sought to isolate Russia

over its 2022 invasion of its neighbor. The stakes are high for Ukraine, but it was not invited to today's

talks. Meanwhile, NPR's Emily Fang is monitoring China's reaction to warming relations between

the U.S. and Russia, one of Beijing's main international partners. China expressed ambivalence about the meeting between the U.S. and Russia, one of Beijing's main international partners.

China expressed ambivalence about the meeting between the U.S. and Russia. The summit is happening

in Saudi Arabia, bypassing Beijing, which has repeatedly offered to host such a meeting to broker

peace in Ukraine. The Chinese foreign ministry said it welcomed the U.S.-Russia talks.

But Russia, which China signed a, quote, unlimited partnership with in 2022,

on the eve of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, is deeply important to Chinese foreign policy.

China's bought up a lot of Russia's oil and gas after European sanctions hit,

and it's facilitated trade and machinery and electronic components that Russia needs. And the prospect of closer ties between two

historically antagonistic countries, the U.S. and Russia, could destabilize China's foreign

policy calculations. Emily Fang and Pierr News.

A Delta Airlines plane remains flipped over on a snowy tarmac in Canada.

Canadian and U.S. investigators are on site to investigate what cause the plane to crash, land, and catch fire at Toronto Pearson International Airport yesterday afternoon.

The president's CEO, Deborah Flynn, says the airport's operating but with delays.

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