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Secretary of State Marco Rubio has been meeting European officials in Paris

to talk about the Trump administration's efforts to end Russia's war in Ukraine.

He also spoke by phone with his Russian counterpart, and Bioro's Michelle

Kaliman as more. According to the State Department, Rubio told Russian foreign minister Sergei

Lovroff the same message he's been communicating to the Ukrainian delegation in Paris.

That is, that President Trump wants this war to end. Here's State Department spokesperson Tammy

Bruce. And now the civilized world

waits to see if Russia is indeed serious. She says Rubio is in Paris along with Trump's envoy,

Steve Witkoff, who met with Russian President Vladimir Putin last week just days before a deadly

Russian missile strike on Ukraine on Palm Sunday.

That strike has added urgency to the Trump administration's peace efforts.

Michelle Kellerman and PR News, the State Department.

More than 100 international students from around the country are joining a lawsuit against the U.S. government.

That's after they say their visa statuses were changed without

reason. Remember station W.A.B.E. in Atlanta, Emily Wu-Person reports. In federal court,

immigration attorney Charles Cook, said about one-third of the students had their visas revoked.

Others received notices that they failed to maintain student status. The suit says the administration

has removed the students from the system used by the

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