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The White House says President Trump is open to meeting with Russian

President Putin on a ceasefire on Russia's more than three-year-old war after Moscow invaded Ukraine.

But speaking from the Oval Office today, Trump says he's not making a possible meeting contingent

on Putin meeting with Ukrainian president Zelensky.

They would like to meet with me and I'll do whatever I can to stop the killing.

White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt says the administration's preference, though, is still for

a trilateral meeting. This after the White House pushed back on claims by Russia that a meeting

between Trump and Putin had been agreed to with a location

decided upon. Right Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel intends to take full control of the

Gaza Strip to destroy Hamas. He says it's to ensure Israel's security and that Gaza's administration

would eventually be transferred to what he calls

friendly Arab forces. The Israeli security cabinet would still have to approve such a decision.

This says the enclave is facing severe hunger shortages, food shortages rather, that have drawn

international condemnation and deaths from starvation. Hospitals in Gaza, meanwhile, say at least 42 Palestinians

were killed in Israeli airstrikes and shootings. President Trump plans to nominate White House

economist Stephen Myron to fill a short-term vacancy on the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors.

And Pierre Scott Horsley has more. In a post on social media, Trump says he wants

Myron to fill the seat on the Fed's governing board being vacated by Adriana Coogler, whose term is

set to expire early next year. Coogler announced last week she's stepping down early to return to a

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